PhD defense on historical ecology

I acted as the “president” on the PhD committee of Sophie Monsarrat who, with her supervisor Ana Rodrigues, kindly invited me. It was about the reconstruction of marine mammal’s historical distribution and abundance using historical data. Sophie did an amazing job during her PhD, have a look to her recent paper on the topic. Her presentation was just awesome, I wish I could give such vivid and fascinating talks, irrespective of the topic. Otherwise, her work reminded me of my current work on monk seals with Alex Karamanlidis from the MoM NGO and the talk I’m supposed to give at the ICCB2015 on the analysis of citizen science data. More soon.