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I am a graduate of Marine and Freshwater Biology from the University of Glasgow and have been working for the RSPB since 2007. I've arrived at seabird policy and conservation work via an aquarium, a regional park, Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, Aride Island in the Seychelles, nature reserves on the Isle of Islay and marine policy at RSPB’s Scottish Headquarters. I’m in love with islands and my favourite birds are European storm-petrel and wedge-tailed shearwater.

Steve is a Senior Conservation Officer for BirdWatch Ireland where he is responsible for seabird research, monitoring & colony management. This involves coordinating the annual Irish input to the Seabird Monitoring Programme (UK-Ireland) as well as managing the Rockabill Roseate Tern & Kilcoole Little Tern Projects. He organised the first quantitative survey of nocturnal tubenoses on west coast islands in 2000-2001 as part of the Seabird 2000 Project. He was also responsible for managing the BWI/NPWS Chough Survey and follow-up research programme (2002-2010), the BWI/NPWS Upland Bird Survey (2002-2004) & other work on upland habitats and their birds, including Hen Harrier & Red Grouse. He is a member of the all-Ireland team responsible for the 'Birds of Conservation Concern' process which reviews the Red, Amber and Green species lists for Ireland & he is also a member of the Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel.

Niall began working as a BirdWatch Ireland Seabird Fieldworker in 2010 after receiving a BSc in Environmental Biology through University College Dublin. Some of his duties have included wardening Ireland’s largest colony of Little Terns at Kilcoole, assisting in a Cormorant diet study and conducting offshore bird surveys. With regards to FAME, Niall is the project coordinator of Seatrack, a national land-based seawatching survey which aims to assess the status & distribution of migratory seabirds in Irish waters, particularly Balearic Shearwater & other tubenoses. As an avid seawatcher, this task is undertaken with great enthusiasm! He is also involved in BirdWatch Ireland’s social media & membership recruitment campaign, acting as an administrator on their Facebook page & various blogs and sits as chairman of the Co. Wicklow Branch.

Biologist (PhD, Toulouse University). From 1988 till 2000, field trips in French southern territories (Taaf), mainly on seabird preservation of which the management of introduced mammals. Head of the stations based on the subantarctic Amsterdam and Kerguelen islands in 1998 and 2000. Environment officer in Taaf from 2001 till 2006. Head of Natural Heritage Department of the LPO since 2007. Natural heritage department’s team composed of about twenty persons working on censuses, knowledge acquisition, preservation and management of species (birds mainly) and sites in France: national action plans, European programs (Life+, Interreg), IBAs, SPA, ZSC etc.

Environmental Engineer (National School of Agronomy in Rennes - speciality: Natural Areas Protection/ quantitative ecology). Master1 «Population and Ecosystems Biology» (Univ Tours). Ecologist by “Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage" (ONCFS) and in an environmental  consultancy firm (Natura 2000, environmental diagnosis). Program manager since December 2009 for the LPO: her main missions are linked with «Seabirds» and «Biodiversity partnerships».

Born in Lisbon, graduated in Marine Environmental Biology from the University of Lisbon in 2007. Birdwatcher since a very young age, worked as a marine observer in Portuguese Marine IBA LIFE project, and has been collaborating with SPEA in some volunteer projects (Arenaria project, RAM days, IBA Costa SW caretaker). In the last few years has been working as a field technician, performing bird monitoring work for environmental impact assessment companies. Travelled to Cape Verde islands in a volunteer program (EVS), performing marine bird conservation work for Biosfera I. Since 2010 works as Marine Program Assistant, within FAME project.

Degree in Environmental Sciences (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2003) and PhD in Animal Biology (University of Barcelona, 2010). The PhD research focused on seabird distribution ecological modelling off the Ebro delta (NE Spain). Professional activity with seabirds began in the University of Barcelona, assessing the impact on birds of an offshore wind farm in the Ebro delta, coordinating and participating in the field work and the impact assessment report (2004-2006). Collaborated with different SEO/Birdlife seabird monitoring programmes doing coastal and on boat seabird surveys. In September 2011 started working as technician in the FAME project for the Spanish partner, SEO/Birdlife.

Graduated in Biology from the University of Lisbon in 2006 and master degree in Natural Resources Management and Conservation from the University of Évora (UE) and the Superior Institute of Agronomy (ISA) in 2009. Worked as a volunteer in the Botanical Garden and Zoological Park of Lisbon and after the graduation in Iceland with SEEDs as a coordinator and environmental education of international volunteers. Started working with seabirds in 2006 with the marine program of SPEA, within the project of LIFE Marine IBA’s, (as a data collector and marine observer in the sea) and then, doing the master thesis about the reproductive success of Cory’s Shearwater in Corvo, Azores, within the project LIFE Corvo and Vila Franca islet. Currently works with the UMinho and SPVS as a technician within the FAME project.