Talks & Posters

I have presented the following talks and posters at conferences, meetings and public events:

Talk

Invited to present

Poster

Content accessible to the general public

Speed Talk

• Detecting changes in movement behaviour in response to disturbance: seals and offshore wind farm construction
  British Ecological Society, Festival of Ecology (Online)

• Detecting changes in movement behaviour in response to disturbance using Mahalanobis distance
  (virtual) International Statistical Ecology Conference, Sydney, Australia* (*moved online due to COVID-19)

• An evaluation of Mahalanobis distance as a method to detect behavioural response in marine mammals from tag data
  World Marine Mammal Conference, Barcelona, Spain

• Behavioural responses to pile driving in harbour seals
  Special Committee on Seals (SCOS) Science Day, St Andrews

• Changes in harbour seal behaviour in response to offshore wind farm construction noise
  5^th Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts (CWW), Stirling, Scotland

• Behavioural responses of seals to pile driving during offshore wind farm construction
  5^th International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, Den Haag, The Netherlands

• Seals, science, and the sound of offshore wind farms
  Public Lecture at 5^th International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, Den Haag, The Netherlands

• Seal movement during offshore wind farm construction: do seals respond to pile driving noise?
  School of Biology Postgraduate Conference, St Andrews

• Behavioural responses of seals to pile driving during offshore wind farm construction
  UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy 13^th Annual Conference, Swansea, Wales

• Seals and marine renewables: understanding how animals respond to new energy technologies
  Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) 40^th Anniversary Public Lecture, St Andrews

• Effect of offshore energy activity on seal behaviour
  School of Biology Postgraduate Conference, St Andrews

• Behavioural responses by seals to offshore energy activities
  UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy 12^th Annual Conference, St Andrews

• Scottish saline lagoons: research at National Museums Scotland
  Heriot-Watt University MSc students, Edinburgh, Scotland

• The biodiversity of saline lagoons in Scotland (View my ePoster)
  Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) Annual Science Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

• Scottish saline lagoons: looking under the surface (View my talk slides)
  'Capturing our Coast: Cake & Science Seminar', Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Oban, Scotland

• Scottish saline lagoons (View my poster)
  Scottish Freshwater Group Spring Meeting, Rowardennan, Loch Lomond, Scotland

• An introduction to Scottish saline lagoons
  Inner Forth Landscape Initiative ‘Discover The Rocky Shore’ Day, Limekilns, Fife, Scotland

• Scottish saline lagoons: research at National Museums Scotland
  Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland Joint Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Saline lagoons: research at National Museums Scotland
  Forth Estuary Forum, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Improving marine mammal and fisheries interactions in Scotland: ADDs and other deterrent devices
  UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy Annual Conference, Bangor, Wales

• Studying the distribution of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Kyle Rhea
  UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy Annual Conference, St Andrews

Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life 2019

World Marine Mammal Conference 2019