#105 - Antarctica Series 19: Michael Schrimpf

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Today's storyteller is Dr Michael Schrimpf! He's currently doing a postdoc position at the University of Manitoba, and his research interests are species distributions, bird conservation, and species interactions. Today though he's here to talk about his PhD research at Stony Brook University, where he was in the same lab at Alex Borowicz (Episode 75) which you'll hear us reference. So his PhD research focused on the distribution and community ecology of breeding birds in Antarctica! I know we all think about penguins in Antarctica, but there's also a variety of seabirds including a species of cormorant, plus a few petrels. So we talk all about birds, field work, doing their study from and utilizing tourist cruise ships, and more. Enjoy!

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You can find Michael Schrimpf on Twitter @MBS_Science and on his website: https://michaelschrimpf.weebly.com/.

• The Lynch Lab: https://lynchlab.com/
• IAATO: https://iaato.org/
• Oceanites: https://oceanites.org/
• Antarctic Site Inventory: https://oceanites.org/research-portal/antarctic-site-inventory/
• eBird: https://ebird.org/home

The paper about Antarctic vessel traffic is "Patterns of tourism in the Antarctic Peninsula region; a 20-year analysis" by Nicole A Bender, Kim Crosbie, and Heather J Lynch, Antarctic Science, 2016.

Episodes referenced in this one: Episode 75 - Antarctica Series 03: Alex Borowicz, my friend the seabird biologist is Episode 7 - Sarah Youngren: Being a Seabird Biologist.

Recorded on 25 October 2020.