MASTER STUDENT : After a Bachelor’s degree in marine biology and a first research internship at the CEBC, Emmanuelle went to finalize her courses in La Reunion island with a Master’s degree in marine tropical biology, where she completed a second research internship focused on humpback whale acoustic on their migration routes with a local Association (GLOBICE). Her participation in the SENSEI project will allow her to model oceanographic data in order to identify the factors that have an impact on the reproductive success of Adélie penguins.

PHD : Trained as a marine ecologist, Julie conducted her two Master internships on southern elephant seals’ foraging ecology. Her main research interests are related to marine top predators foraging ecology and habitat use. She was recruited by SENSEI in November 2017 as a PhD student between the CEBC and the Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat (LOCEAN, UPMC, Paris). Her work consists in linking southern elephant seals foraging strategies and reproductive success with oceanographical conditions (hydrological and sea ice parameters) and climate change.

PHD : After a master degree in Marine Biology and Ecology at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Rimouski, Canada, and at the OSU-Pythéas Institute in Marseille, Candice did a master degree internship at the CEBC, examining fine-scale marine habitat selection by the European shag in the Mor Braz Bay (Brittany). In September 2017, Candice is recruited by SENSEI to conduct a PhD entitled “Spatial ecology of a marine top predator in Antarctica, the Adélie penguin”.

PHD : After overwintering in Terre Adélie as a field assistant on the seabirds monitoring program (prog. 109 of IPEV), Christophe did an internship at the CEBC quantifying the effects of climatic and biotic changes on the biodemographic traits of juveniles of snow petrels. In September 2017, Christophe is recruited by SENSEI to conduct a PhD entitled "Polar seabirds, sentinels of sea ice: demographic responses and life history traits", focusing on both snow petrels in Antarctica and black-legged kittiwakes in the Arctic.

POST-DOC RESEARCHER: Pierre-Loup is a Post-doc researcher recruited by SENSEI at the CEBC since October 2018. His PhD (2017) was on the impact of landscape and habitat quality on bat populations genetics and dynamics at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in France. Pierre-Loup research interests focus on animal populations structure and dynamic and their sensitivity to environmental variation and disturbance, with 5 published articles since 2015. He is currently studying the demography and population dynamic of the black guillemot and its sensitivity to the environmental changes of the last fifty years.

PHD : After an engineering degree with a specialty in Water & Environment (ENSIL, France) and a MSc in marine mammal science (University of St Andrews, Scotland), Pauline started a PhD in October 2016 within the Sea Mammal Research Unit. She studies and compares sensory and foraging ecology of a number of marine polar predators to determine their resilience to climate change. For this, she developed new animal-borne tags to sample acoustic environments and in situ prey field of predators.

POST-DOC RESEARCHER : Sara completed her PhD in Marine and Antarctic Science in December 2016 at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat (Paris) and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (Hobart). She studied the foraging ecology of southern elephant seals in East Antarctica in relation to physiography, hydrological factors and sea ice conditions. She is now a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA working on the influence of Antarctic sea ice dynamics and coastal polynyas on emperor penguin population in Terre Adélie.

PHD : As part of his Master’s degree, Nathan did an internship at the Centre of Biological Studies of Chizé where he studied early life survival and growth of subantarctic fur seals. He then started a PhD to investigate the respective influences of climatic variability, prey abundance and density-dependence on two closely related top predator species (the south polar skua in Antarctica and the brown skua in the subantarctic islands) on both an individual and population level. This involved the use of long-term population time series and individual monitoring by mark-recapture, and various data from international databases (e.g. sea ice concentration, air temperature, sea surface temperature).

POST-DOC RESEARCHER : Jean-Baptiste is a post-doctoral researcher at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan since 2012. His main research interest focuses on marine ecology in the Antarctic, and more recently in the Arctic too, using data recorders attached onto predators to track their movement and behaviour across seasons. During his PhD (2011), Jean-Baptiste revealed the unexpected long-distance migration of subantarctic penguins. His work now focuses on Antarctic penguins, to understand how ice conditions affect these long-distance movements across seasons. Using miniaturized video loggers, he is also interested in clarifying prey selection in marine predators. Jean-Baptiste is deeply involved in this research on the ecology of marine predators, with currently 54 communications and 32 published scientific papers related to ecology, behaviour and oceanography.