With Dr Alex Bond at the RSPB, we have a London NERC DTP CASE Studentship available to start September 2017 – full details below (or link below). Deadline to us is late December, date for application to NERC is early January.
Alternate view of advert can be found here – phd-advert!
I am currently working with Prof Magella Guillemette at the University of Rimouski (Quebec), finishing two papers we’ve been working on for some time, while sorting out facilities to support a forthcoming grant application. This trip was possible due to a successful application to the SEB’s “Newly Appointed Academics Travel Grant” scheme, so thank you very much SEB for your support.
Big new development of the pigeon facilities this week. Four new lofts spread over 2 sheds, which excitedly has quadrupled out capacity. Set for the start of Dan Sankey’s PhD experiments, in collaboration with Dora Biro and Emily Shepard.
Busy working at ZSL this week with Monica Daley and Emily Sparkes from the RVC, on Komodo Dragon locomotion.
I’ve got a new article out today in Journal of Experimental Biology, a Classics piece about the first big formation flight paper that was published in 1970 in Science. You can read it here!
Dan starts his PhD next week, and will be investigating how physiology and individual personality traits interact with collective behaviour in birds (more to follow). Dan is co-supervised by Dr Dora Biro (Oxford) and Dr Emily Shepard (Swansea).
I have an article out in Biosphere Magazine about our Secretary Bird work that was published earlier in the year in Current Biology. Subscibers to the magazine can read the full article on the Biosphere website.
I have an article about migration out in the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) magazine – free to all members.
Looking forward to talking at this event at the end of September, more details in the link:
https://cee-2016-autumn-event.eventbrite.co.uk/
Our (with Emily Shepard) special issue on Flight is out today, as a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. You can access the issue on the link below. Within that is a paper I did in collaboration with Prof Magella Guillemette that looks at how heat dissipation in migrating eider ducks may limit their daily flight time.
Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford 