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Research
Interests:
My research interests focuses on the ecology, population genetics
and conservation of the Laysan Albatross. Albatross are large, pelagic
birds that spend the vast majority of their live at sea and come
to land only to breed. My dissertation focuses on three areas:
1. Examining how physical and biological oceanographic factors determine
their distribution and oceanic habitat use.
2. Determining the population structure and amount of gene flow
between each insular breeding population.
3. Examining the spatial and temporal overlap of Laysan Albatross
distribution with North Pacific Longline fisheries and determining
whether bycatch mortality in the fishery is population biased.
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