Seal Population Dynamics Lab
OUTREACH AND NEWS
2023-11-22 Bohuslänningen about the harbour seal counts. Swedish Radio followed up
2023-x-x SVT Väst - Visitid Ursholmen and made two films about the work and about how to approach seals.
Beautiful popular science article 2023-x-x by Daire Carroll: The secret lives of seals in Oceanographic
New grants :
Daire Carroll selected as a research fellow for Wildlife Welfare grant.
Jessica Carroll won a US welfare grant for wildlife cameras
Jessica and Karin recieved a grant from Emmy Gustavsson for grey seal health with BrittMarie Bäcklin and Sara Persson at NRM.
NEW PROJECT 2021: Funded by the Environmental Protection Agency: Baltic grey seal; predicting future development.
New PROJECT 2022: Assessing breeding success and feeding habits in the harbour seal, N. Skagerack. County Council Västra Götaland
SLU and GU in collaboration; Seasonal haulout behaviour, a PVA
Team members:
Dr. Daire Carroll Postdocs and Assistant researcher 2021-ongoing Work on population projection models and risk assessment for harbour and grey seals.
Dr. Jessica Carroll Postdoc 2023-ongoing health and behaviour of harbour and grey seals
MSc Foteini Kappa, Research Assistant. Feeding studies and trophic food webs.
Master student Casper Ekberg: Energetic strategies of harbour seal females, Christian Teittinen diet studies and size structure of fishing mortality, BSs Linus Ekberg; photo ID with drones. Internship student Te Ana Singletary; Risk assessment of harbour seals.
Affiliated and recent
Dr. Eduardo Infantes, collaborator with expertise in development of drones in ecology
Dr. Mart Jüssi, Estonia, Grey seal life history evolution under global change, Baltic grey seals.
Dr. Badreddine Bererhi Postdoc 2021-2023 Work on fish energetic content and predator-prey interactions in the Baltic grey seal
Master student and Erasmus student Melanie Monjanel: Photo-ID a best method evaluation.
Master student Finnished thesis 2023! Fotini Kappa Works on seal prey choice by identification of otholits.
Master student Melanie Monjanel, Photo-ID, Linnea Brokmar harbor porpoise diet
New articles:
Drones and machine learning help in harbour seal surveys Infantes et al. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.905309
How to estimate Generation time in an age structured population: Jonasson et al 2022. https://doi.org/10.1086/719667
Silva et al 2022. Article about harbour seals and risk for declines: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3343
Classic article: Tero Härkönens feeding study from 1987 now digitalized . Link here.
OM KNUBBSÄL PÅ SVENSKA: https://rovdjur.se/den-skandinaviska-knubbsalens-fall-och-uppgang-och/
Documenting and ecosystem change. The field expedition September 2021 to Koster and Segelskären archipelago. We collected seal scats and estimated seal body sizes by drones. Here is Tero Härkönen, Eduardo Infantes, master student and Daire Carroll. Photo Karin Harding.
Mission complete. The field expedition June 2021 to Koster archipelago was successful. We developed a new method to monitor harbour seal pups by drones. Here is Karin Harding, Tero Härkönen, Scott Edwards, Willian Silva and Eduardo Infantes. Also Carrie Chen and Bedreddine Bererhi participated.
Welcome to the seal project pages! Here we present classic work and new ongoing projects, our collaborators and research articles.
Questions? Suggestions? Email: nirakhard()gmail.com