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Meet the team

Principle investigator

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Karin Harding is a Professor in ecology at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. She works with population dynamics of marine mammals and how the are affected by various stressors such as epidemics, climate change and hunting. Main approaches are population surveys and mathematical modelling.

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Watch Karin explain her work here

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Tero Härkönen is a senior professor in marine mammal ecology. He has established the ongoing long term monitoring programs on harbour seals and ringed seals. He has developed the method to determine diet composition from otholiths and published about 100 peer reviewed research articles about seal ecology, and an Atlas over the otoliths that has been cited over 700 times.

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Email: tero.j.harkonen(XXX)gmail.com

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Meet the Team

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Researcher

Daire works on population modelling and the development of new monitoring techniques for wildlife. His current focus is understanding the mechanisms of resource limitation on population growth and developing drone-based surveys for assessing animal health and welfare. He has established Sälfie-ID, a citizens science platform for the individual identification of Swedish seals.

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Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Jessica Harvey-Carroll

Jessica is currently researching harbour seal behaviour and diet, alongside Baltic grey seal physiology.  Her research interests are of course seals! Animal behaviour and welfare (camera traps, biologging) and physiology. She also works with Loggerhead turtles, Temmincks ground pangolin and whale sharks.

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Research Assistant

Foteini is a marine biologist with a focus on feeding studies of marine mammals. Specifically, her research involves the reconstruction of the harbour seal's diet in the North Sea through the identification of fish otoliths, recovered from seal faeces. Foteini's goal is to investigate the dietary preferences of seals and explore any potential changes in their diet throughout time, comparing recent and historical data.

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Extended Team

Dr. Badreddine Bererhi- Baltic grey seal energetics

Dr. Willian Silva- Modelling, PVA, ringed seals

Dr. Mart Jussi- Grey seals

Current Students

Casper Ekberg- MSc, seal behaviour

Cristian Teirrinen- MSc, Otoliths

Linus Rydberg- BSc, Photo ID

Te'Ana Singletary- Internship, modelling

Recent Students

MSc Melanie Monjanel, 2022, Photo ID

MSc Linnea- 202, Porpoise diet

BSc Simon Isacsson, 2021, Photo ID

MSc Foteini Kappa, 2022, DIet

MSc Eva Pagen- 2022, Drones 

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21.11.23 Karin, Daire, Fotini and Jess travelled to Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Research Station Flødevigen for the Scandinavian harbour seals workshop 2

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