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February 2024 - We're turning over a new leaf - Sarah is now an employee of the Government of Canada! Her new role as a Quantitative Wildlife Biologist falls under the Wildlife Monitoring and Assessment Team in the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment and Climate Change Canada. Sarah is working under Canada's Oceans Protection Plan, and her role is to help coordinate effective national monitoring strategies for Canada's marine birds, with the ultimate objective of accurately assessing the abundance and population status of our seabirds and sea ducks.
January 2024 - Sarah is elected as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at Acadia University
May 2023 - 'The Warblers' hosts 6 experts over 2 podcast episodes to make their case for which species has the best bill on "Battle of the Beaks". Sarah makes a strong argument for Laysan Albatross bills as the "swiss army knife" of beaks in Episode 2. But the people voted, and the Atlantic Puffin took the grand prize. Check out the episodes here!
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September 2022 - Sarah joins the SCO-SOC (Society of Canadian Ornithologists) as a Member of Council - head over to the society website for links to loads of great initiatives including the recently launched mentorship program!
October 2021 - Sarah talks about seabirds and how they laid the path to her becoming an Early Career Researcher in STEM on 'The Warblers' podcast from Birds Canada - click for link to all the great interviews they've produced so far! Our episode is called "The seabirds you did not know you love"
Check out the videos below for some visual context to some of the topics discussed in the episode!
Check out the videos below for some visual context to some of the topics discussed in the episode!
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April 2021 - Mini podcast for the journal Wildlife Biology to share recent work on the influence of industry on the behaviour of breeding Herring gulls in eastern Canada (click here for link to podcast and here for link to Open Access paper)
Check out the animation below and on YouTube showing the GPS-tracks of 55 gulls from 4 different colonies.
January 2021 - Sarah is short-listed for an Early Career Researcher Award from the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence for research on American woodcock populations and habitat associations in Nova Scotia (graphical abstract below; click here for a link to the nomination and the Open Access paper)
October 2020 - Sarah presents at the 6th World Seabird Twitter Conference in the 'Tracking and Distribution' Session on research following the movements of Thayer's gulls from the Canadian High Arctic to their overwintering grounds along the West Coast of North America (click here for a link to the Open Access paper)
Check out the animation below and on YouTube showing the satellite-tag tracks of four birds undertaking their incredible migration
Check out the animation below and on YouTube showing the satellite-tag tracks of four birds undertaking their incredible migration
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