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Seabird Ecology Group University of Liverpool






Previous Group Members

Jamie Duckworth 2018 - 2023
PhD: Behaviour and energetics of red-throated diver in relation to offshore windfarms

Sophie Bennett 2018 - 2023
PhD: Year-round importance of breeding sites for common guillemots Uria aalge

Lila Buckingham 2018 - 2022
PhD: Migration, energetics and non-breeding behaviour of seabirds

Jack Thorley 2021 - 2022
Post-doctoral Researcher: Causes and consequences of individual variation in foraging behaviour in wandering albatross

Lucia 2020 - 2021
Post-doctoral Researcher

Tommy Clay 2017-20
Postdoctoral Associate: Linking seabird movement and meteorological data

Ruth Dunn 2016-20
PhD: Annual cycles in the behaviour and energetics of North Atlantic seabirds

Steph Harris, 2016-20
PhD: Linking individual variation in foraging behaviour and personality in a polar seabird

Alice Carravieri, 2018-20
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship on the interactive effects of chemical contaminants and parasites on seabird.

Teri Jones, 2016-20
PhD: Individual variation in sociality and social foraging strategies in the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator)

Alice Trevail, 2015-19
PhD: Environmental drivers of the foraging ecology of black-legged kittiwakes

Rich Howells, 2014-19
PhD (based at UKCEH): European shag diet and demography at a North Sea colony over half a century of environmental change

Olivia Hicks, 2014-18
PhD : The costs and consequences of parasitism to a wild population: an energetics approach

Phil Collins, 2013-17
PhD (based at Roehampton University): The movement ecology of a breeding seabird: An investigation using accelerometry

Vicky Warwick-Evans, 2012-16
PhD on the potential interactions between seabirds and Marine Renewable Energy Installations (MREIs)

Louise Soanes, 2009-15
PhD: The foraging behaviour of seabirds: defining and predicting home range areas

Cat Horswill, 2010-15
PhD (based at Glasgow University): The relative important of opposing drivers in determining population change in macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus
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