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EOU Fledglings Meeting

We really enjoyed the EOU Fledglings Meeting at Charles University in Prague. Karolina Cieślińska presented her work on colour polymorphism, Pauline Bodson and Kristin Piening gave updates on their PhD projects, and Jacob Ligorria presented his work on Common terns (Sterna hirundo) from his bachelor’s degree. During excursions, dinners, and scientific activities, we met new…

New project, led by Katarzyna (Kasia) Wojczulanis-Jakubas 

Project entilted ACORD: Avian COoRDination of parental activities – patterns and mechanisms has just been awarded in the last NCN call (OPUS 25). The project is aim is to examine patterns and mechanisms of parental coordination in birds (including the little auk, of course 😊). Stay tuned, as we are soon going to start the recruitment of two…

SEATRACK workshop

We had absolutely fantastic time sharing our knowledge and ideas at the SEATRACK workshop. The event was held in Copenhagen and it involved a lot of presentations and group activities. Kristin Piening gave an update on her PhD project related to GLS tracks and Martyna Syposz presented data collected during fieldwork on the effort to…

Fulbright scholar arrival

We are very pleased to welcome Jacob Ligorria in our team. He is a Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow from the United States and he will investigate the foraging behaviour of Little Auks throughout the breeding season. The project will use existing video and GPS data, but also Jacob will join us for the nest year fieldwork…

Workshop in SEA-EU program

The University of Kiel (Germany) offered a Science Communication workshop for doctoral candidates as part of the SEA-EU program, in which Pauline and Kristin participated. The SEA-EU (European University of the Seas) gives a unique opportunity to participate in courses targeted to PhD candidates on an international and interdisciplinary level. Having this opportunity, Pauline and…

EOU conference in Lund

Shortly after the fieldwork in Arctic, POLar Ecology Group and members of the Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology in University of Gdansk went for the European Ornithologists’ Union conference in Lund. Kasia gave a fantastic plenary talk titled “Parental care in birds- from sexual conflict to cooperation”, featuring research on Little Auks! While Martyna…

Start of 2023 season

Our group lead by Kasia set off for another fieldwork season to Hornsund. The journey involves getting by planes to Longyearbyen and then going with a boat to Polish Polar Station. We used one free day before getting on a boat to explore around Longyearbyen and went on an amazing hike! June 2023

Visiting Bergen

Martyna Syposz went on a three-months visit to the Seasonal Ecology Group lead by Prof. Øystein Varpe at University of Bergen. Except from many ad-hoc meetings and scientific chats, she also presented her results at the Ecological and Environmental Change Research Group (EECRG) meeting and the Avian Ecology Group meeting. The landscape around Bergen, the…

Welcome Newcomers!

Two new PhD students and one Master student have joined our lab! Pauline and Kristin are going to work on different aspect of foraging ecology of Little Auk under Kasia’s and Darek’s supervision. Guillaume is investigating the effect of weather variables on the coordination between Little Auk partners. His work is supervised by Martyna and…

Huge congratulations for Dr Antoine Grissot!!!!

Today Antoine passed his defence with 16/16 votes in favour! Well done on your achievements throughout the PhD. We will certainly miss you and Marion in here! Good luck for all your future projects. 18 Nov, 2022

Visiting researchers

We had a visit from Dr. Jérôme Fort. The time passed on insightful chats, sharing ideas and beautiful walks around Gdansk with Yuki 🙂 9 Nov, 2022 

Aldric Guinbretiere joins the lab

We are very happy to welcome Aldric from Institute Agro Rennes (France) who is joining us to perform his internship on parental coordination in reed warblers (indeed reed warblers are not seabirds but the species is not that much important, and the topic – parental coordination is one of our favourtite:) Welcome on board, Aldric. Oct…

Kasia Wojczulanis-Jakubas gives a plenary talk on Symposium for Young Ornithologists

Kasia gives a talk during the symposium of Young Ornithologists (III Sympozjum Młodych Ornitologów) organized by University of Łodź (Poland). The talk is titled: “Przypadek rządzi nauką, nauka rządzi przypadkiem” (eng: “A chance drives science, science rules the chance”), and although it sounds it has nothing to do with polar ecology, there are lot of…

The fieldwork in Hornsund

Long short Arctic summer is over. Martyna, Darek and Kasia, save and sound returned from Hornsund. What we have planned for the fieldwork we did. The season was not much early neither late in terms of phenology, there were also not much other differences in comparison to previous summers, except… extraordinary high rate of partners…

The fieldwork on Bear Island starts

Katarzyna Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, Adrian Zwolicki and Szymon Słomkowski (POLE Group), together with Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Piotr Bałazy and Maciej Chełkowski (Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Science) are starting expedition to Bear Island. They will investigate en effect of seabirds colony on the ecosystem of seabed (SONATA project led by Katarzyna Zmudczyńska-Skarbek). To this end, they will…

Dariusz Jakubas awarded with NCN grant

Dariusz Jakubas has just awarded with a big grant from National Science Center (NCN), to invesigate foraging ecology of the little auk. This is a big project in collaboration with Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Science, with two field seasons (2023 and 2024) in two field sites (Hornsund and Magdalenefjorden). We are going to…

Lea Ribeiro leaves the lab

Time is running out so fast…! Lea has finished her Master project on the little auk phenology and so she is now leaving to France for defense. It is going to be smooth as results are nice and interesting, and she overall did a great job. Good luck with defense, Lea, and hopefully see you…

Rozen de Fur leaves the lab

Time is running out so fast…! Rozen has finished her Master project on partners vocal communication in the little auk and so she is now leaving to France for defense. It is going to be pleasant event as the results are nice and interesting, and she overall did a great job. Good luck with defense,…

Øystein Varpe visits the lab

We are pleased to welcome prof. Øystein Varpe  from University in Bergen. Prof Varpe is a specialist in ecology, greatly interested in various ecological procesess and evolutionary adaptations (e.g. life histories and behaviour, population dynamics, ecosystems functioning, seasonality). We are going to discuss details of our common project leading by Martyna Syposz , on the little auk response on warming of the Arctic.…

Anne Ausems leaves the lab

Anne Ausems has received post-doc position in Trent University, and is leaving the lab. It was a great time to have you on board, Anne. Good luck in all your future endeavors and enjoy the life in Canada! Feb, 2022

Lea Ribeiro joins the lab

We are pleased to welcome Lea Ribeiro from Institute Agro Rennes   (France) who is joining us to perform her Master project on the little auk phenology, supervised by Kasia Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Marion Devogel, Antoine Grissot and Martyna Syposz. Great to have you on board, Lea! January 10, 2022 

Rozen de Fur joins the lab

We are pleased to welcome Rozen de Fur from Institute Agro Rennes   (France) who is joining us to perform her Master project on vocal comunication of the little auk parents , supervised by Marion Devogel, Kasia Wojczulanis-Jakubas and Antoine Grissot. Great to have you on board, Rozen! January 10, 2022