Shannon Whelan

Wildlife in winter ❄️ Seabirds in summer ☀️ | she/her

[Kyle Elliott @ArcticEcology]

The survival cost of reproducing in cormorants is not due to increased energy expenditure, despite having large clutches [for a seabird].

Recent paper from Middleton Island led by Teo Barracho and @killerwhelan

https://t.co/sqftMuEBg5

[Kyle Elliott @ArcticEcology]

Junk food: GPS tracking reveals that kittiwakes ingest indigo-dyed plastic fibers in the Gulf of Alaska & feed them to their young.

New paper out #OpenAccess below, led by Paolo Tremolada & Univ Milan.

https://t.co/LVlOgpcDTy

[Joan Ferrer Obiol @JoanFerrerObiol]

The first #gull chromosome-level #genome assembly is available! Check out our paper presenting a new black-legged #kittiwake genome
https://t.co/PeERpdqUJD
👇👇 a couple of highlights:

[Lauren M. Jackson @lauren_mjackson]

Excited to announce my very first publication with @ArcticEcology in @CompBiochPhys! Read about how #plasma #metabolites improve #nutritional state measurements in free-living #seabirds. Study conducted with #kittiwakes on #Middleton #Island @mcgillu

https://t.co/hVm2e4tVEm

[Clayton Lamb @ClaytonTLamb]

Thrilled to share our co-produced (@dunnezaman @mateens22 @sarperotto @akmenzies @JessPopp @HebblewhiteLab @mprice_org) work published today in @ScienceMagazine on braiding Indigenous rights and endangered species laws for culturally-meaningful recovery. https://t.co/TC3Sbb5txF

[nathalie stevenson @Shoneywind]

Yesterday was exciting! Kittiwake persistently visiting Kittiwakery tower. At one point four birds squabbling over a ledge! Fingers crossed they might nest. It is late in the season however so they may just be gathering 'social information' for next year's breeding season.

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@MarieClaireGatt Thank you! We made a little improvement that you might appreciate ; )

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

Spring cleaning in the kittiwake tower: before & after

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@rcannon992 It was built as a US Air Force radar tower, abandoned, and kittiwakes started using it in 1980s. USGS then retrofitted it in the 1990s to increase nesting habitat and research (Middleton Island, Alaska)

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@jackson0lauren Power-washed into oblivion!

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@Buteo_malaria @unibielefeld @ChakarovNayden Congratulations, Dr. Rinaud! 🥳 Excellent hat for protection from kittiwake bombs, you should bring it to Middleton.

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

Puffin Partitioning: tufted puffins and rhinoceros auklets may eat similar things, but their year-round movements are quite different
https://t.co/x3RZBHsWEL

[nathalie stevenson @Shoneywind]

1/3 Shoney Winds first commercial kittiwake tower in Gateshead is nearly complete. #urban #kittiwake @TyneKittiwakes @Hendrover @KittiwakesTyne @NINAnature @tonereiert @Signe_Dalsgaard @FrancisDaunt @AddeyNick @ECOWind_UK @ArcticEcology @killerwhelan

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

Middleton Island kittiwakes are on the cover of Proc B!

@zedmorgan's elegant, integrative experiment "Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge" is #OpenAccess: https://t.co/ILfInZXQk1

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@JennaSchlener just sent some examples!

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

Thanks to co-authors Scott Hatch, @Knomealone, @AChangingArctic and @ArcticEcology. This project took some time (1st chapter to start, 3rd to finish), so it's a very good feeling to see it out in the world.

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

A PhD chapter came out while I was in the field!

Kittiwakes bred earlier (and better) under colder climate--not a great fit for the future

Murres bred earlier as the Arctic warmed up--but only by ~1 wk, while sea-ice out dates are ~1 mo earlier

https://t.co/fOf5HPEoEr

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@JennaSchlener Congrats, Jenna!

[Shannon Whelan @killerwhelan]

@geehaadastee I'm so torn between wanting everyone to know how great Atlin is, and wanting nobody to know how great Atlin is!