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Education and research experience

2017

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

2016 - present

Researcher

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Research unit: Littoral Environment and Societies (LIENSs), La Rochelle, France

2013 - 2016

Post-Doc researcher

Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs) - University of La Rochelle, France

 

2010 - 2013

Post-Doc researcher

Aarhus University - Dpt of Bioscience, Denmark

 

2006 - 2009

Doctorate in Ecology, Marine Ecology and Ecophysiology

Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE) - University of Montpellier II, France

 

2004 - 2006

Master of Science - Ecophysiology, Ecology and Ethology

Strasbourg University, France

 

2001 - 2004

Bachelor of Science - Biology and Ecology

University of Poitiers, France

 

Main collective responsabilities

2022 - present

French representative at the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Council

2022 - present

Coordinator of the Polar task force (AllEnvi – National Research Alliance for the Environment)
 

2020 - present

Member of the board of the French National Committee for Arctic and Antarctic Research (CNFRAA)
 

2019 - present

Alternate representative for France and CNRS at the European Polar Board
 

2018 - present

Scientific adviser for Polar Affairs CNRS-INEE

2016 - present

French Representative at AMAP working group (Arctic Council)

2019 - 2022

Head of the AMARE research group (LIENS, La Rochelle, France)

Research projects

Coordinator / Co-coordinator

 

2021-2025

ARCTIC-STRESSORS 'Combined effects of multiple environmental stressors on Arctic seabirds'

Funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR JCJC)

2020-2022

BIOENERGARC 'Bioenergetic effects of anthropogenic contaminants and climate change on Arctic seabird'

Funded by the European Commission (MSCA IF 2020 to A. Grunst). Co-PI: Melissa Grunst

2020-2022

BEHAVTOXARC 'Behavioural ecotoxicology meets climate change: Interactive effects of mercury pollution and climate change on behaviour, physiology and fitness in a keystone arctic seabird'

Funded by the European Commission (MSCA IF 2020 to A. Grunst). Co-PI: Andrea Grunst

2007 - 2024

ADACLIM 'Responses of Arctic marine birds to environmental contraints in the context of climate change'

Funded by the French Polar Institute (IPEV / Pgr. 388) - Co-PI: David Grémillet (CEFE)

2018

Changing Siberia

Funded by the CNRS (Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives) - Co-PI: Kathy Law (LATMOS), Roman Teisserenc (ECOLAB), Alexandra Lavrillier (CEARC)

2017-2018

MAMBA 'Mercury in Arctic marine biota: sources, levels and impacts'

Funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR T-ERC 2016)

2014 - 2017

ARCTOX ‘Sea-ice shrinking and increasing human activities in the Arctic: what risks for the avian biodiversity’

Funded by the European Commission (Marie Curie - Career Integration Grant)

 

2012 - 2013

Responses of Arctic seabirds to environmental change: the case of dovekies

Funded by the National Geographic Society (Global Exploration Fund - Northern Europe)

 

2011 - 2013

LIAK&CC ‘Impact of climate change on wintering Arctic seabirds – an inter-population study on little auks’

Funded by the European Commission (Marie Curie - Intra European Fellowhip)

 

2010 - 2011

Winter distribution and behavioural plasticity of Arctic seabirds in response to prey abundance and environmental constraints

Funded by the Fyssen Foundation

 

Participant

2021-2025

EcoDIS 'Disease ecology in a modified world: Linking combined environmental stressors, population dynamics and movement ecology to understand the circulation of infectious agents'

Funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR PRC) - PI: Karen McCoy (MIVEGEC)

2021-2024

SeaBIL 'Saving Seabirds from Marine Litter"

Funded by the European Commission - Life Projects - PI: Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO)

2018-2022

IVORY 'In search of Ivory Gull: a sentinel species of climate change in the most threatened and remote areas of Greenland'

Funded by the French Polar Institute (IPEV / Pgr. 1210) - PI: Glenn Yannic (LECA)

2017-2021

ILETOP 'Impacts of Legacy and Emerging pollutants on arctic avian TOP predators'

Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR PRC) - PI: Paco Bustamante (LIENSs)

2018-2021

EXPO 'Exposition des prédateurs de la zone intertidale aux contaminants'

Funded by the Region Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes - PI: Paco Bustamante (LIENSs)

2015 - 2017

PARCS 'Pollution in the Arctic System'

Funded by the French Arctic Initiative (Chantier Arctique Francais) - PI: Kathy Law (LATMOS)

 

2008 - 2010

Barents Birds 'Study of the behavioural ecology and the energetics of inter-breeding Brünnich's and common guillemots from the Barents Sea'

Funded by Total Norway and the Total Foundation

 

 

Supervising

2022

Miguel Hernandez Gonzalez: Master student, Glasgow University. "Microbiota and Hg contamination in little auks"

2021-2024

Julie Charrier: PhD student, La Rochelle University. "Combined effects of sea ice and mercury on Arctic seabirds". Co-supervisors: D. Amouroux (IPREM) and G. Massé (LOCEAN)

2021-2023

Marta Cruz Flores: Postdoctoral researcher, Marie Curie Fellow, La Rochelle University. "Demographical effects of Toxic contamination on Arctic Seabirds". co-supervisor: P. Bustamante (LIENSs)

2021-2023

Melissa Grunst: Postdoctoral researcher, Marie Curie Fellow, La Rochelle University. "Bioenergetic effects of anthropogenic

contaminants and climate change on Arctic seabird"

2020-2023

Fanny Cusset: PhD student, La Rochelle University. "Seabirds as bioindicators of past and current mercury contamination in the ocean: a global approach". Co-supervisors: P. Bustamante (LIENSs) and Y. Cherel (CEBC)

2020-2022

Andrea Grunst: Postdoctoral researcher, Marie Curie Fellow, La Rochelle University. "Behavioural ecotoxicology meets climate change: Interactive effects of mercury pollution and climate change on behaviour, physiology and fitness in a keystone arctic seabird"

2020-2021

Alice Carravieri: Postdoctoral researcher, La Rochelle University. "Trans-generational effects of mercury in little auks"

2020-2021

Sophie Lorioux: Post-doctoral researcher, La Rochelle University. "Habitat use and migration strategies: what is the influence of mercury contamination in wintering shorebirds?"

2017 - 2021

Céline Albert: PhD student, University of La Rochelle. "Exposure of arctic seabirds to pollutants: what is the role played by individual migratory movements and non-breeding distribution?"

2019 - 2021

Clément Jourdan: PhD student, University of La Rochelle. "Selection of habitats by two closely-related shorebird species wintering on the French Atlantic coast : Study of the bar-tailed and black-tailed godwits". Co-supervisor: P. Bocher (LIENSs)

2018-2020

Katherine Brownlie: PhD Student, Deakin University / La Rochelle University. "Modelling the drivers of population change in Australia’s most numerous seabird, the short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)". Co-supervisors: P. Bustamante (LIENSs) and John Arnould (Deakin University)

2018

Marina Renedo Elizalde: Postdoctoral researcher, University of La Rochelle. "Hg isotopes as a tool to investigate the spatial origin of Arctic seabird contamination"

2013 - 2016

Françoise Amélineau: PhD student, Montpellier University. “Seabird sensitivity to Arctic environmental change”. Co-supervision (50%), co-supervisor: D. Grémillet (CEFE)

2016

Adeline Grosjean: Master 1, University of La Rochelle. "Spatial variations of Hg contamination in Arctic seabird"

 

2015

Anais Kerric: Master 1, University of La Rochelle. "Effect of mercury on chick growth in an Arctic seabird"

 

2014

Hanh Linh Nguyen : Licence 3, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (Vietnam). “Mercury concentrations in seabirds washed ashore during the unprecedented French winter wreck 2014”. Co-supervision (50%), co-supervisor: P. Bustamante (LIENSs)

 

2014

Gauthier Goldmun : Master 1, University of La Rochelle. “Historical mercury concentrations in several Arctic seabird species from Northwest Greenland"

 

2014

Gwendoline Traisnel : Master 1, Université de Bretagne Occidentale. “Temporal changes in the mercury contamination of little auks breeding in East Greenland”.

 

2011

Marie Frandsen : Master 2, Copenhagen University. “Aspects of little auk (Alle alle) foraging behaviour from the main breeding population in the high Arctic Northwest Greenland”. Co-supervision (50%), co-supervisor : A. Mosbech (Aarhus Univ.)

 

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