COLLABORATORS

Claus obtained a PhD in zoophysiology at the University of Århus, Denmark in 1981. From 1981 he was an Associate professor at the University in Trondheim, Norway and from 1992 full professor in zoophysiology at the department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Bech is mainly studying various aspects of avian energetics, and has worked with seabirds both in the Arctic (Spitsbergen) and the Antarctic. He has worked on Kittiwake biology in Spitsbergen continuously since 1996.

George began seabird studies in 1970 while a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, USA. He obtained a master’s degree on Arctic seabirds from Michigan State University in 1972 and a PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1997. Since 1975 he studies the sea ice-obligate Mandt’s Black Guillemots in northern Alaska, documenting changes in breeding biology, feeding ecology and survival during a period of rapid decrease of summer sea ice. He is currently the Director of Friends of Cooper Island, a non-governmental, non-profit research organization.

After a PhD at the University of Manitoba and a postdoc at the University of Guelph, Kyle Elliott started as Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology and Assistant Professor at McGill University in 2015. He has spent 15 summers studying birds in the Arctic, including on 11 islands in the Canadian Archipelago. He uses seabirds, to understand change in Arctic marine ecosystems. He is an author on numerous publications relating the physiology and behaviour of Arctic seabirds to population level processes.

Geir Gabrielsen has worked as a research scientist with the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso since 1984, and is currently head of the ecotoxicology section and professor at University Courses on Svalbard. His research focuses on the contamination by heavy metal and organic pollutant of Artic wildlife and its effects on organisms. He has published more than 230 papers in scientific journals, several books and book chapters and many popular press articles.

Mike has worked as a research scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada since 1988, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Quebec Rimouski. His research focuses on population dynamics, ecology, fisheries interactions and management strategies of pinnipeds in the Gulf of St Lawrence and in Nunavik. He has published several papers on feeding and growth of pinnipeds, effects of climate change and use of marine mammals as oceanographic samplers.

Mark's research interests are in the development and application of high resolution bio-logging systems for studying wild animals. After completing a PhD in electronics engineering in New Zealand, he worked for 18 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA. There, he developed a miniature sound and movement recording tag for cetaceans. In 2011, Mark moved to the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, as a senior research fellow, where he is developing tags to study the consequences of increasing environmental noise on animals.

With BSc and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Calgary, Canada, and a PhD from Kyoto University, Japan, Andrew now works as an Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute. He incorporates complexity science into behavioural ecology and epidemiology to describe organizational properties of animal behaviour to better understand animal-environment interactions under ecological challenges and anthropogenic disturbances. He did fieldwork with primates in Central America, Africa and Asia, and with penguins in Antarctica.

Børge is a Senior researcher at Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) since 2010 and Associate professor at Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 2017. His PhD (2004) was on avian ecophysiology at NTNU and included a Marie Curie fellowship at the CEBC. Børge studies Arctic seabirds and their performance in relation to environmental variation, their predators and prey, with 66 published articles since 2000 in disciplines such as ecology, ecophysiology and ecotoxicology.

Akinori did a PhD at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. He now works as an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan. He has been involved in the development of cutting-edge bio-logging instruments. His research focuses on seabird foraging behaviour, relationship with marine environment, consequences on reproductive performance and implications for life history strategy. He conducted fieldwork with penguins in Antarctica and with alcids in Pacific Arctic.