Dr. Katherine Snell

Postdoc
Department of Migration
Research Group Partecke
Radolfzell

Main Focus

Physiological adaptations and diversification underlying speciation and distribution of species. Tracking and bio-logging of highly mobile species, and ecological modelling. Migration and foraging movements (birds and marine mammals) as indicators of the effects of anthropogenic and seasonal environmental change in the marine and terrestrial ecosystems.



Curriculum Vitae

FURTHER EDUCATION

University of Copenhagen, Denmark: PhD Title:Physiology of avian migratory processes. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, with placement at Wingfield and Ramenofsky lab, UC Davis, USA 2015-2018

 

Open University with the British Antarctic Survey, UK (British Antarctic Territory): MPhil Photoprotective pigments in Cephaloziella varians: investigating responses to climate change. 2004-2007

 

University of Durham, UK: BSc (Hons) Molecular Biology and Biochemistry with Industrial Research Placement (BRC, University of Dundee, UK) 1997-2002

 

EMPLOYMENT

Post-Doctoral Researcher Aahus University, Kalø, Denmark 2019

 

PhD Fellow, Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate SMN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2015-2018


Isle of Noss, National Nature Reserve, Shetland, NNR Manager SNH (Scottish Natural Heritage), Scotland 2012-2014

 

Future of Atlantic Marine Environment, Senior Research Assistant RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), Scotland 2010

 

Fisheries Seabird Scientist Falkland Islands Government, Stanley, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic 2008         

Terrestrial Field Research Assistant (Antarctica) British Antarctic Survey, Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica 2003-2007


Research Assistant – Human Physiology University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research 2003

Zoological Research Assistant British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK 2002-2003

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