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    P. Dee Boersma
    PeerJ Editor & Author
    435 Points

    Contributions by role

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    Zoology 135
    Animal-Behavior 135
    Epidemiology 100
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    Marine-Biology 100
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    P. Dee Boersma

    PeerJ Editor & Author

    Summary

    Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science and Prof. of Biology, University of Washington, Director for Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and the Wildlife Conservation Society Magellanic Penguin Project, and Adjunct Curator of Ornithology, Burke Museum. Recipient of 2012 Ocean Conservation Award Aquarium of the Pacific, 2010 Nature Conservancy of Washington Environmental Hero, 2009 Annual Heinz Award for the Environment. Former President of the Society of Conservation Biology. For selected publications go to ecosystemsentinels.org.

    Biological Oceanography Ecology Marine Biology Science Policy

    Editing Journals

    PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

    Past or current institution affiliations

    University of Washington

    Work details

    Professor of Biology

    University of Washington
    Department of Biology
    Professor Boersma's academic research is in the area of conservation biology and has focused on seabirds as indicators of environmental change. She directs the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and is Co-Chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature SSC Penguin Specialist Group. In her role as a scientific fellow for the Wildlife Conservation Society she leads the research on Magellanic Penguins at Punta Tombo, Argentina. Since the project started in 1982, each year she and her team have followed the lives of individual Magellanic penguins in the South Atlantic, determining their reproductive success, foraging locations, population dynamics, and the effects of perturbations.and policy changes on their survival. A Marine Protected Area (MPA) based on her long-term satellite work at Punta Tombo, home to the largest Magellanic penguin colony in the world, is under consideration by the Chubut government. The Galapagos penguin, the only penguin breeding on the equator, is the rarest species of penguin and its' breeding distribution is very restricted. In 2010 we built nesting sites that the penguin are using to increase the population. Galapagos penguins molt twice a year so the research examines penguin body condition to learn how climate variation impacts the timing and frequency of the molt as well as the morphology of the penguins.

    PeerJ Contributions

    • Articles 1
    • Edited 1
    May 20, 2019
    Lateralization (handedness) in Magellanic penguins
    5 citations
    498 downloads
    1,759 views
    Thaís Stor, Ginger A. Rebstock, Pablo García Borboroglu, P. Dee Boersma
    animal-behavior
    zoology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6936 PubMed 31149402

    Academic Editor on

    May 18, 2016
    Premature feather loss among common tern chicks in Ontario: the return of an enigmatic developmental anomaly
    315 downloads
    1,558 views
    Jennifer M. Arnold, Donald J. Tyerman, Doug Crump, Kim L. Williams, Stephen A. Oswald
    ecology
    marine-biology
    toxicology
    virology
    epidemiology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1959 PubMed 27231646
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