Alex Bond (he/him) is the Principal Curator and Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum in Tring and London, UK. His research focuses on anthropogenic impacts of pollution on marine birds and islands, with a particular focus on plastic pollution. He also is an advocate for improved equity, diversity, and inclusion in science. He has been chair of the Seabird Group since 2023.
Nina O'Hanlon (she/her) is an ornithologist and birder with a broad interest in ecology and conservation. Her research interests include anthropogenic threats to marine birds, seabird movement and foraging behaviour, and demographic monitoring. Nina is based in Caithness and works as a Senior Research Ecologist at BTO Scotland in the Wetland and Marine Research Team.
Alice Edney (she/her) is a final year PhD student at the University of Oxford researching the development of remote technologies to understand changes in seabird behaviour and ecology. She is a big advocate for citizen science and is happiest outside monitoring seabirds. Alice is currently the Treasurer of The Seabird Group where she is responsible for managing the group’s accounts.
Antoine Grissot (he/him) is the membership secretary of The Seabird Group, for which he handles the member database and answers all sorts of queries. He obtained his PhD from the University of Gdańsk (Poland) ,on the breeding ecology of the Little Auk, Alle alle, breeding ecology and is now a Post-Doc at the University of La Rochelle (France) where he is working on the distribution and effects of contaminants and stress factors on North-Atlantic seabirds.
Ingrid Pollet (she/her) is a seabird ecologist collaborating closely with Environment and Climate Change Canada and Acadia University. She supervises students from Acadia University and Windsor University on diverse projects focusing on Leach’s storm-petrels. As editor for Seabird, Ingrid works with the assistant editor and the broader team to produce high-quality issues, aligning with the Seabird Group's mandate.
Anne Ausems (she/her) is a postdoc at Aarhus University (Denmark). She has completed her PhD at the University of Gdańsk (Poland) comparing four species of storm petrels, and after a short diversion into Whimbrel, has returned to storm petrels (and some puffins). Her current project focuses on human impacts on the various storm petrels breeding in Europe, but she is also interested in understanding the ecological niche and demography. Anne is the Assistant Editor for the Seabird Journal, working closely with the journal Editor to ensure a smooth, inclusive publication process.
Debs Allbrook is in her 3rd year of a PhD on Exeter's Cornwall campus, researching Black-legged kittiwakes nesting on offshore oil and gas rigs. Previously she worked as a warden on Rockabill Island, monitoring and protecting a colony of Roseate terns, and also studied anthropogenic disturbance to Northern gannets on the Saltee Islands (both off Ireland). Her favourite seabird is the Black guillemot! Passionate about writing and sharing science, Debs can't wait to help deliver the newsletter to the Seabird community.
Trina (Katrina) Siddiqi-Davies is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford looking at the movement behaviour of Manx shearwaters. Specifically, she is looking at long term changes in foraging, exploring links between diet and behaviour, and investigating how shearwaters might overlap with future offshore wind developments. Trina is The Seabird Group’s EDI officer, and aims to increase EDI through:
Jacqui Glencross (she/her) is a third year PhD student researching the impacts of fishing on African penguin foraging behaviour at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Before her PhD, Jacqui completed her masters at the University of Tasmania, Australia, focusing on mass mortality events in Ardenna shearwaters. She is now very excited to be the new Early Career Researcher rep for The Seabird Group. Following on from The Seabird Group Conference in Cork, where she had a great time meeting fellow ECRs, Jacqui is keen to keep the feeling of community going for everyone. If you are an early career researcher, please get in touch with Jacqui if you have any questions, ideas or just want to say hello!
Barbara Leone (she/her) is the Website Manager for the Seabird Group. She has a background in marine and wildlife biology and a long-standing interest in seabirds, marine ecosystems, and human impacts on the marine environment. Originally from the Faroe Islands, Barbara lived in Australia for 15 years, where she spent over a decade working in IT business operations. She is currently working as an environmental research assistant in the Faroe Islands and is a board member of the Faroese Ornithological Society. Barbara enjoys creating clear, well-structured digital spaces and supporting knowledge-sharing and collaboration within the seabird research community.