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Wildfowl

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. 


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Arne Follestad

Population ecology, behavioural ecology, monitoring (time-series), coastal ecology. Geese, seabirds. Environmental impact analysis. During recent years, major assignments have included ecological studies on population dyna-mics and management actions (hunting regimes, agricultural conflicts between farmers and geese) related to the Greylag Geese and other geese, and environmental effects of large wind-mill farms planned along the Norwegian coast. Major experience also covers seabird studies connected to their breeding biology, mapping of seabird distribution inshore and at open sea, by-catch of seabirds in fish nets, consumption of discards from fisheries (EU-project), environ-mental impact analysis of offshore petroleum activities, and oil spill contingency planning.
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Ingunn Tombre

Geese, behavioural and population ecology, reproduction ecology, agricultural conflicts, goose hunting, effects of grazings, population monitoring, adaptive co-management processes, management plans, climate change effects, tundra ecology


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Jan Ove Bustnes

Practical experience covers studies in population studies of waterfowl and seabirds. Involvement in seabird research programmes (monitoring colonies and studies on seabirds at sea), and impact assessment in connection with seabird and oil drilling. I also have some experience in entomological research (ecology and systematics). Ecotoxicology been a central working field since the late 1990s.


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Sveinn Are Hanssen


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Brett K. Sandercock

Arctic, demography, harvest, invasive species, migratory birds, population ecology, ptarmigan, sensitive species, shorebirds, and wildlife management.




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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

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Wildfowl

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. 


Show full profile of Svein-Håkon Lorentsen

Arne Follestad

Population ecology, behavioural ecology, monitoring (time-series), coastal ecology. Geese, seabirds. Environmental impact analysis. During recent years, major assignments have included ecological studies on population dyna-mics and management actions (hunting regimes, agricultural conflicts between farmers and geese) related to the Greylag Geese and other geese, and environmental effects of large wind-mill farms planned along the Norwegian coast. Major experience also covers seabird studies connected to their breeding biology, mapping of seabird distribution inshore and at open sea, by-catch of seabirds in fish nets, consumption of discards from fisheries (EU-project), environ-mental impact analysis of offshore petroleum activities, and oil spill contingency planning.
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Ingunn Tombre

Geese, behavioural and population ecology, reproduction ecology, agricultural conflicts, goose hunting, effects of grazings, population monitoring, adaptive co-management processes, management plans, climate change effects, tundra ecology


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Jan Ove Bustnes

Practical experience covers studies in population studies of waterfowl and seabirds. Involvement in seabird research programmes (monitoring colonies and studies on seabirds at sea), and impact assessment in connection with seabird and oil drilling. I also have some experience in entomological research (ecology and systematics). Ecotoxicology been a central working field since the late 1990s.


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Sveinn Are Hanssen


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Brett K. Sandercock

Arctic, demography, harvest, invasive species, migratory birds, population ecology, ptarmigan, sensitive species, shorebirds, and wildlife management.




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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

Show full profile of Nina Dehnhard

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