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.
Dr Anne Ausems is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she works on modelling Storm-petrel overlap with human activities at-sea. Her work primarily focuses on Storm-petrels breeding the Faroe Islands (with the occasional puffin project on the side) where she has been working since 2017. As assistant editor, she works closely with the editor of Seabird to contribute to the valuable process of peer review and (open access) publication and keeping the process as smooth and welcoming as possible.
Dr Alex Bond is the Principal Curator and Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum in Tring, and a Research Associate of the Environmental Research Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands. His research focuses on pollution, island restoration and the effects of invasive species.
Dr Nina Dehnhard is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) in Trondheim, Norway. She started her career with tropical seabirds and penguins and worked on petrels in Antarctica before settling into the world of Northern hemisphere seabirds in 2018. She is part of the Norwegian Seabird Population Monitoring Programme SEAPOP (www.seapop.no/en) and she works on a broad range of topics, including spatial biology, cumulative impacts and plastic pollution.
Dr Gary Clewley is a Senior Research Ecologist at the British Trust for Ornithology, based in Scotland. His main interest in applied ecology is using high-quality evidence for decision making in wildlife management, especially where potential conflicts may occur. Gary has worked on numerous projects, including developing bio-logging methods to collect year-round data from large gulls to help inform renewable energy developments, aviation collision risk, and understand habitat use.
Dr Joana M. Romero is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Joana’s research focuses on the foraging ecology and behaviour of marine predators, namely seabirds and pelagic fishes. She is most interested in the impacts of climate change and fisheries on this group, and in developing methods that will allow us to help inform stakeholders about the best management and conservation measures to take if we are to continue to exploit marine resources in a sustainable way.
Dr Christopher J. Pollock is a behavioural ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, whose research examines how human-driven environmental change affects seabird behaviour and population dynamics, focussing on offshore wind farms. By combining real-world observations with computer modelling, he attempts to gain insights into the processes underlying patterns of space use and demography. His seabird research began with investigating individual foraging site fidelity in Northern gannets at Bass Rock during his PhD, now working on various species on the Isle of May
Elspeth Sage is a Marine Conservation Scientist at the RSPB. Her background is in movement ecology and bio-logging, with a focus on the relationship between fine-scale flight behaviour and the interactions of land, sea and atmospheric environments. She currently works on projects exploring the impacts of marine developments on space use and flight behaviour of seabirds in the North Sea. She really likes gulls!