Behavioural biology

Tone Kristin Reiertsen

Sveinn Are Hanssen

Svein-Håkon Lorentsen

• Research scientist focusing on seabirds and coastal seals in marine and polar environments. 
• Main research topics; population ecology, demography and reproductive biology, diet, food searching behaviour, behaviour and migration using dataloggers (GPS, GLS, TDR and satelite-transmitters) 
• Great experience with field work under challenging conditions (Antarctica, the Norwegian coast at all times of the year). 
• Impact assessments, seabirds and offshore oil and wind development, effects of kelp harvesting and disturbance from boats on seabirds.
• Supervisor of master- and PhD-students and opponent on PhD-thesis.
• In charge of the Norwegian monitoring programme for seabirds
• Administrative experience from leadership of several projects and as assistant research director and research director. 

Elisabet Forsgren

• Animal behaviour, reproduction, evolution and ecology
• Risk assessment of alien species (fish)
• Effects of climate change and ocean acidification
• Experimental design
• Aquarium experiments and field investigations in coastal marine areas
• Project leadership
• Student supervision and teaching
• Quality management

Gunnbjørn Bremset

Nina Dehnhard

• seabird ecologist with experience in the tropics, the southern hemisphere including Antarctica and in the North Atlantic
• has worked with a range of different species: boobies, tropicbirds, penguins, petrels, shags, guillemots, puffins
• fieldwork experience in partly remote and challenging environments (Christmas Island, Antarctica, Falkland/Malvinas Islands, Iceland, Norway)
• familar with a broad range of fieldwork methods: 
  • bird counts and population monitoring
  • marking birds with metal & colour rings as well as PITs
  • deployments of GPS, GLS, TDR and video cameras
• various types of data analyses and statistical modelling
  • linear mixed models with random slopes and random interceps
  • generalized additive mixed models
  • habitat suitability modelling and predicting of suitable foraging habitat
  • survival- and population-modelling
• supervisor of several Master-students
• in charge of the monitoring of plastic in fulmar stomachs for OSPAR in Norway