by mfuirst | Apr 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Matt represented the Thorne Lab at the 45th annual Pacific Seabird Group conference this February in La Paz, Mexico. Matt presented his work in the Foraging Ecology session where he discussed his results from his Master’s thesis on differences in herring gull...
by mfuirst | Nov 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Matt presented preliminary data from his M.S. thesis on herring gull foraging ecology at the 6th Biannual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative (NBI) Conference on Nantucket, Massachussets on November 4. The NBI conference brings together biologists and naturalists...
by mfuirst | Aug 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
This year I spent the months of April-July tagging herring gulls at three colonies for my M.S. thesis reserch. My fieldwork this season primarily involved capturing the gulls using noose carpets and deploying/recovering GPS tags to track foraging movements during...
by mfuirst | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Julia Stepanuk successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled “Spatiotemporal patterns of short-finned pilot whale and pelagic longline distribution in the Northwest Atlantic: An assessment to inform the management of fisheries bycatch”, in May!...
