Vance Mak

Excited to share the first paper from my PhD is out now in Journal of Animal Ecology! We investigate the impacts of winter storminess on auks and show diverging negative impacts of storms among guillemots, puffins, and razorbills! doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

With support from the project #FISH4ACP, the Fisheries Directorate of #SãoTomé and #Príncipe is implementing smartphone questionnaires to collect fisheries data 🐟 Training and testing just finished and data collection will start soon!

Our #BRUVS study in #SãoTomé and #Príncipe has just been published! This study is the first #BRUVS survey in this data-poor archipelago, with 400+ deployments in two years! Link to #OA paper ⬇️ doi.org/10.1371/journa… A thread of main findings (with fish videos!) 🐠 (1/9)

Very exciting to see this celebration of the work of so many people who care about seabirds 🌊 🥳 We'd love to see any new seabird tracking data for the next 20 years of marine conservation! #ornithology

Back in soggy Scotland after a fantastic @TheSeabirdGroup conference. I had a great time learning about lots of fascinating seabird research! Big thank you to @ECOTOP_UC for organising such a fun week!

So grateful to be given the opportunity to present some work from the first chapter to my PhD at the @TheSeabirdGroup #coimbraseabirds conference today!!

"Responsibility for the conservation of Black-Legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla in the North Atlantic" Vance Mak identifies key migration routes and conservation responsibilities. #MarineConservation #CoimbraSeabirds 🌍

🌍 Just published: Our work from the 2023 FSBI Symposium dives into the challenges of predicting fish distributions in a changing climate. Find it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/Q3MVWMGW…

The current South African no-take zones have little benefit for the #africanpenguin. Four of the six zones include ≤50% of the penguins’ core foraging areas 🐧 check it out ⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/articl…

Every year I've deployed cameras on the penguins I've said "wouldn't it be cool if we saw another logger bird on the footage".... My final camera bird coming up with the goods!

A home from home.. team @ExeterMarine Penryn in Penrhyn for day 2 of CDT SuMMeR summer school in Bangor. A day of flash presentations from both cohorts updating on our #PhD projects. #marinescience #transdisciplinary @VanceMak @KateChadwick20

Habitat selection reveals Vulnerable juvenile #sharks space use is driven by #mangroves. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @ExeterMarine @UniExeCEC @AliceTrevail @FishyBehaviour @AdrianGleiss @clemencyewhite @vitalheim @BiminiSharkLab

📢 #BOUasm24 KEYNOTE PRESENTER Cat Horswill @CatHorswill Institute of Zoology & University College London, UK Understanding population-level impacts and demographic consequences Birds and net zero | 24 Oct 2024 | York, UK & Zoom & X bou.org.uk/event/birds-an… #ornithology

ExMove: An open-source toolkit for processing and exploring animal-tracking data in R | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… | @AnimalEcology | #ornithology

Liam Langley, co-author, says "ExMove is an open access reproducible toolkit for processing and exploring animal movement data from multiple telemetry devices in R, promoting reproducibility within the field of movement ecology."

Our new paper is out as an early release! We document #Africanpenguins feeding on fish amongst jellyfish tentacles 🐧🐟🪼 Check it out! -> seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-36-5

New Paper 📣. Privilege to be a part of this & working with @DaniOrrell. High site fidelity expressed in grouper in contrast to yellow spotted eel, with both expressing similar trophic niche.

After a really great week on the Scillies, it’s time for us to depart on everyone’s favourite boat, #ScillonianIII. Thanks to the staff @_KMETCALFE @OwenExeter @AliceTrevail @VanceMak for making it such an enjoyable trip for us all! #MVEC