Postdoctoral opportunity to assess giant petrel energetics, habitat use and trophic ecology

 
Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli by Peter Shearer, Artist & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) for the Saving Marion Island’s Seabirds: The Mouse-Free Marion Project, after his own photograph

“We seek an enthusiastic and quantitative researcher to develop a mechanistic model integrating foraging energetics and movement data to assess how wind and sea ice influence giant petrel diet, habitat use, population trends and predation pressure on avian species.”

The Postdoctoral Associate will conduct research in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences under the supervision of Principal Investigator, Lesley Thorne.  The selected candidate will work with ecologists at Stony Brook University, New York, USA and with Richard Phillips at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.

Read more here. The application deadline is 17 July.

With thanks to Richard Phillips.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 24 June 2025