Thorne Lab Happenings
Congrats to Master Madeleine Foley!
This past week, the Thorne Lab gave a big congrats to Madeleine Foley, who defended her Master's thesis entitled "Spatial and temporal predictability drive foraging movements in coastal birds". Madeleine has worked hard over the last two years to add a unique...
Where are all the whales? A slow start to our 2023 humpback drone season
The start of the 2023 humpback whale drone surveys have begun! As part of our long-term project funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC), the Thorne Lab collects morphometric data on the humpback whales that frequent the south...
The Thorne Lab kicks off field work for the Wildlife and Offshore Wind Project!
The Thorne Lab is working on a collaborative project with several institutions along the east coast, and led by Duke University, called Wildlife and Offshore Wind (WOW) that is investigating the impact of offshore wind development on marine wildlife. Recently, we...
Fall Seabird Surveys
November is a time of changing leaves, fall chill, and for the Thorne Lab, Seabird Surveys! As part of a larger interdisciplinary, multi-level monitoring project funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Thorne Lab began...
The Thorne Lab Congratulates Dr. Julia Stepanuk!
The Thorne Lab celebrates the dissertation defense of Dr. Julia Stepanuk! Julia completed her Master’s of Science in Thorne Lab in 2017 and continued on in the Thorne Lab as a PhD student in the Ecology and Evolution department. Julia’s dissertation uses drone imagery...
2021-2022 Bird Island Field Season is a go!
The 2021-2022 field season is officially underway at Bird Island, South Georgia! By the time of our arrival in mid-December, both black-browed and grey headed albatross were incubating their eggs while the wandering albatross began egg laying a few weeks later. ...
Welcome new lab members Chesli and Madeleine!
The Thorne lab welcomes new members Madeleine Foley and Chelsi Napoli! Madeleine is joining us from the University of Oregon, where she obtained a BSc in fisheries and wildlife. Madeleine is driven by her passion for conservation, and will be studying seabird ecology...
The Thorne Lab Congratulates Master Dallas Jordan!
The Thorne lab congratulates Dallas Jordan on successfully defending his MS thesis, “Divergent Post-breeding Spatial Characteristics of Sympatric Albatross Species in the North Pacific”!!! Dallas’ thesis investigates the post-breeding movements of Black-footed and...
That’s a wrap! 2021 gull season comes to a close
Our 2021 field season for gull work has wrapped up! The Thorne Lab has been collecting data on herring gull foraging movements and ecology in relation to urban areas since 2016 and great black-backed gulls since 2019. This season we continued to study gulls at Young’s...
New Publication: Age-specific behavior and habitat use in humpback whales: implications for vessel strike
We're excited to announce a new publication from the Thorne Lab in Marine Ecology Progress Series and have summarized the research we did here! Vessel strikes are a major threat to large whale species around the world, and there have been some reports that juvenile...