Airam Rodríguez
Airam is broadly interested in conservation biology, especially in the ecological impacts of light pollution using mainly raptors and seabirds as study models. He is also interested in island ecology and the natural history of the Canary Islands. He got his balchelor degree at Universidad de La Laguna and his PhD at Universidad de Sevilla. As a postdoctoral researcher, he enjoyed two fellowships at Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC: a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship and a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowships. After that he was a assistant professor at the Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Currently, he is a Ramón y Cajal fellow at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales CSIC and focused on finding solutions to the fatal attraction of seabirds to artificial lights.
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Andre ChiaradiaAndre research field is on prey-predator relationships and interactions with their environment using little penguins as case study. Together with collaborators, they have developed more sensitive variables such as foraging efficiency, presence/absence of thermoclines and foraging-trip-duration to detect environmental changes, complementing traditional variables of population size, mortality or survival. His research produced over 40 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals on foraging behaviour of little penguins. Andre is academic editor for PLoS ONE and Open Journal of Ornithology, editor of the Australasian Seabird Group Bulletin and affiliated to the Monash University.
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Juan José NegroJuanjo defended his PhD in Biology at the University of Seville in 1991. After that, he moved to Canada, where he worked as a postdoct for three years at McGill University. His research addresses questions on evolutionary ecology and conservation biology. His model species are generally birds of prey, a group of species with small population sizes and permanent conflicts with human activities. He has also worked with other avian species, either threatened with extinction or species of social or economic interest. He is also interest in the application of new technologies to monitor wildlife populations. He currently leads a project aimed at demonstrating the applicability of light UAVs for wildlife research. He has published more than 170 papers in scientific journals and has supervised to date 7 PhD thesis. Juanjo is the scientific director of Doñana Biological Station CSIC, a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence in Research (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spanish Government).
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Peter DannPeter has worked as a wildlife ecologist for 30 years and has published extensively on seabirds and shorebirds in Australasia. He is a research fellow of the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne, the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University and the past chairman of the Australasian Seabird Group, an editor of the journal ‘Marine Ornithology’ and a director of the Penguin Foundation.
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Beneharo RodríguezBeneharo has worked as wildlife ecologist in different projects on the avifauna of the Canary Islands. During the last years he has been involved in two Life projects conceded to SEO/BirdLife to identify marine Important Bird Areas by tracking seabirds (shearwaters, petrels, gulls, cormorants and gulls) with different devices (geolocators, PTTs and GPS data-loggers). He has published several papers dealing on several aspect of the natural history of the Canary Islands, so in 2013 he founded the Canary Islands’ Ornithology and Natural History Group (GOHNIC) with several colleagues. He is also an experienced bird photographer that has published several pictures in international scientific literature (e.g. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Functional Ecology, BBC news, Ecology, Ardeola or The Handbook of the Birds of the World).
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David GarcíaDavid is a field technician who develops seabird work on the Balearic Islands. Develop the monitoring of several Balearic Shearwater colonies since 2011 in collaboration with SEO/BirdLife and AZTI. Currently, he is the responsible for field actions for the Balearic Shearwater within the LIFE INTERMARES project. Through the IRBI entity, he has promoted the rescue campaigns for the collection of dazzled shearwaters in the Balearic Islands.
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