Education and research experience
2024 -
Research Director
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Research unit: Littoral Environment and Societies (LIENSs), La Rochelle, France
2017
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
2016 - 2024
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
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.)