Hannah Wood PhD student

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Zoological Society of London

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I was the Post Graduate Research Assistant on the Chagos Archiplago Seabird Project based at IOZ.

This study concerns the status, distribution and population trends of red-footed and brown boobies (Sula sula and Sula leucogaster), their utilisation of the marine protected area which surrounds their breeding sites, and the environmental factors which drive their at-sea distributions. I am currently doing my PhD on seabird foraging behaviour between King’s College London and the IOZ and remain a collaborator and field assistant for the Chagos Archipelago Seabird Project.

In order to effectively protect marine species, we need to understand how they utilise the environment around them

Hannah Wood

Biography

2019 Present

PhD candidate (London NERC DTP) at King’s College London and ZSL’s Institute of Zoology

2017 2019

Post Graduate Research Assistant the Chagos Archipelago Seabird Project.

Other Interests

I am primarily interested in the movement behaviour and foraging ecology of marine top predators. Through the use of bio-telemetry, we are now able to collect detailed data about the fine scale movements of animals when they are at sea and utilise new statistical analysis and modelling techniques to analyse this information. I am particularly interested in the use of hidden Markov models to identify and describe different behaviours and to determine the influence of environmental variables on their distribution patterns. This kind of information is essential in order to determine ecologically important areas and can be incorporated into habitat conservation measures. In the past I have spent much of my time in the field, working predominantly with marine mammals, as well as a variety of seabirds and predatory pelagic teleosts.

My Publications

Comparable Foraging Effort and Habitat Use Between Two Geographically Proximate Tropical Seabird Colonies

Trevail, A.M., Vallocchia, S., Nicoll, M.A.C., Carr, P., Votier, S.C., Wood, H., Freeman, R. (2024). Comparable foraging effort and habitat use between two geographically proximate tropical seabird colonies. Marine Biology.

Geolocation and Immersion Loggers Reveal Year-Round Residency and Facilitate Nutrient Deposition Rate Estimation of Adult Red-Footed Boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, Tropical Indian Ocean

Votier, S.C., Corcoran, G., Carr, P., Dunn, R.E., Freeman, R., Nicoll, M.A.C., Wood, H., Trevail, A.M. (2024). Geolocation and immersion loggers reveal year-round residency and facilitate nutrient deposition rate estimation of adult red-footed boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Avian Biology.

From Route to Dive: Multi-Scale Habitat Selection in a Foraging Tropical Seabird

Dunn, R.E., Freeman, R., Nicoll, M.A., Ramsden, J., Trevail, A.M., Wood, H., Votier, S.C. (2024). From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird. Marine Biology.