Fieldwork

Over four years, I have had the opportunity to work with 20 seabird species and gain a variety of field experience on four islands in the UK, USA and Canada.  

Gull Island, Newfoundland, Canada

Research Assistant for Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2018 & 2019

• Adult survival and productivity studies of Leach's storm-petrels and Atlantic puffins

• GLS and GPS deployment on Leach's storm-petrels, Atlantic puffins and black-legged kittiwakes

• Mercury studies of Leach's storm-petrels, Atlantic puffins and black-legged kittiwakes

• Microclimate studies of Leach's storm-petrel and Atlantic puffin burrows

• Personality studies of Leach's storm petrels

• PIT-tag deployment on Leach's storm-petrels

• Whole island census of cliff-nesting seabirds

Baccalieu Island, Newfoundland, Canada

Research Assistant for Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2018 & 2019

• Adult survival and productivity studies of Leach's storm-petrels

• GLS deployment on Leach's storm-petrels

Farallon Island, California, USA

Seabird Research Assistant for Point Blue Conservation Science, 2017

• Aiding the island biologists in continuing long term monitoring of the population, reproductive success, diet and timing of breeding of 13 Farallon Island seabird species

• Burrow camera to determine Cassin’s and Rhinoceros Auklet burrow occupancy

• Breeding success of Brandt’s Cormorants and Western Gulls

• Predation levels on Ashy Storm-petrels

• Tufted Puffin island census

• Surveys of cetaceans, pinnipeds, crickets, salamanders

Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Long Term Volunteer for the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, 2016

• Adult survival studies of European storm-petrels

• Productivity studies of lesser black-backed gulls and black-legged Kittiwakes

• European storm-petrel island census 

• Great black-backed gull diet study

• Collection of population and mortality data of the grey seals.

• Manx shearwater rafting study

• GPS and GLS deployment on Manx shearwaters

• Surveys of plants, butterflies, cetaceans, seals, moths and reptiles