Author: Wieteke Holthuijzen

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2 Postdoc Positions: Marine spatial planning and cumulative impacts of blue growth on seabirds (Norway)

The Department of Terrestrial Ecology at Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is announcing two vacant positions for post-doctoral research fellowships. Deadline to apply: 3/31/2022.

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Call for Albatross/Seabird Drone Survey Data

The Wildlife Conservation Society, Duke University, and the University of Tennessee – Knoxville are working together to adapt and train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect a wide range of species in variable environments. To do this, we need data! We need tens of thousands of drone images with nesting albatross to input into the CNN to teach, train, and validate…

Shannon Fitzgerald
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Shannon Fitzgerald

Shannon Fitzgerald is the leader of the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Coordinated Seabird Studies Group. Shannon grew up in central western Minnesota in a conservation minded family. He received a B.S in Wildlife Management from the University of Minnesota where he worked on a study of the Ecology of the West Indian Manatee in Florida. After a season completing prescribed…

Dan Roby
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Daniel Roby

Dan Roby recently retired as Unit Leader–Wildlife for the US Geological Survey-Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University. He received graduate degrees from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (M.Sc. in Wildlife Management) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Biology). In addition to his…