Nicholas Winterle Daudt
MSc in Biological Oceanography
I am a marine biologist interested in seabird distribution and how spatial biodiversity patterns of marine top predators interplay with oceanographic processes. My broad aim is to elucidate the processes which build up the assemblage structures and sustain the seabirds’ biodiversity patterns in space and time. I am also interested in plastic pollution in marine and coastal environments. In my master's degree, I investigated the seabird assemblage at the mouth of Amazon River, their biodiversity, and the biogeographical patterns of seabirds of Brazil, both based on the LAATM seabird count database. I'm working hard to learn, follow, and put in practice the open science principles, particularly the use of open-source software, and sharing code used in the analysis.