
Meet the team
Principle investigator
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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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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Meet the Team
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.

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.

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.
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
Collaborators
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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