Congratulations to Naiara O'Mahony for being awarded her PhD for her thesis on "The effects of climate change on the global migration ecology of birds"!  Naiara tackled some very thorny problems to do with explaining the current distribution of migrant birds, and predicting how that might change in the future (given the location of suitable climate space, some areas of which might not currently be used by the species).  We look forward to seeing Naiara's work on these issues in print before too long!

Congratulations to Christine Howard who successfully negotiated and passed her PhD viva on Monday January 12, 2016!  Christine's thesis is on "The abundance of European breeding birds: present and future" and has already led to 3 high impact papers (see further on her profile). We would like to extend a big thank you to Rob Freckleton for examining her thesis. 

We are happy to announce that Christine will be continuing on with CEG as a Research Associate with Phil Stephens.