Collaborators
Chris Oosthuizen
NRF Innovation Postdoctoral fellow
Chris is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). His primary research interests are the population and foraging ecology of marine predators, particularly that of seals and seabirds inhabiting sub-Antarctic and Antarctic ecosystems.
Martin Biuw
Senior scientist
Elling Dehr Johannesen
Masters student
Elling is a biologist from Oslo, Norway currently working on his Master’s thesis in marine biology in Tromsø, Norway. Passionate about surf and freediving
Victoria Ollus
Masters student
Vici is a biologist from Oslo, Norway currently working on his Master’s thesis in marine biology in Tromsø, Norway.
Andy Lowther
Dr Andy Lowther has worked with marine top predators for over a decade, focussing on their foraging ecology, feeding behaviour and population structure using telemetry, biogeochemistry and molecular genetics as tools of his trade. He has angled his work towards applied outcomes, mainly involving fisheries interactions, bycatch and functional competition between humans and marine mammals. His latest expedition involved living in Whalers Bay, Deception Island in a tent for 3 months investigating one of the largest breeding colonies of Chinstrap penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Sponsors
A partnership already exists between the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Institute for Marine Research (IMR) with the International Association of Antarctic Tourist Operators (IAATO), and this year the Hurtigruten A/S has agreed to provide space on two of their vessels for MMSO observers.
This project is part of a larger effort funded by the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to develop the new krill fishery management system.
The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) and the Knowledge and exchange impact (University of St Andrews) has funded Kalliopi Gkikopoulou and Lucía Martina Martín López travel to and from Ushuaia, respectively.