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Updated on April 16, 2017
Campbell Island – A Life Boat in a Changing Ocean
Many populations of sub-antarctic animals and plants are in decline, threatened by an array of direct and indirect human impacts. The restoration and protection of predator-free island habitats is a crucial component of conservation measures to ensure population …
Posted on April 15, 2016
Tweeting about albatross bioenergetics
The logo may look a songbird, but seabirds have a strong following on twitter! After a successful first incarnation in 2015, the World Seabird Union organized another Twitter Conference this year, the 2nd World Seabird Twitter conference. This …
Updated on January 18, 2016
Albatross Bioenergetics at the World Seabird Conference
We presented an early snapshot of our work on Dynamic Energy Budget models for albatrosses at the 2nd World Seabird Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The slides of the talk “Unravelling physiological and ecological determinants of albatross …
Updated on April 1, 2015
Richard Phillips talks about albatrosses
My day-to-day work happens far from Antarctica at a desk in Florida, writing and testing code that simulates albatross behavior. To make these computer models as realistic as possible I rely on observations from the field. The British …