Tatsuya AMANO
E-mail: [email protected]
Tatsuya is an academic at the University of Queensland in Australia. He has been working on quantifying population trends of waterbird species in Japan (his home country), Australia, and globally. He is also committed to generating and synthesising scientific evidence on what works in the conservation of migratory shorebirds in the flyway.
Ying-Chi (Ginny) CHAN
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Website: https://chanyingchi.github.io
Photo: https://jappliedecologyblog.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/ying-chi-ginny-chan.png
Ying-Chi (Ginny) is an ecologist whose research focuses on animal movement and wildlife conservation. Her interest in shorebirds began in 2012, when she conducted her Master’s degree project involving fieldwork in Australia and China. Deeply concerned with the fate of the many threatened shorebird species in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, she conducted her PhD research on migration ecology of Great Knots, Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits in this flyway. Through this project, she has developed expertise in satellite tracking of shorebirds and applying the knowledge gained in conservation. She has founded the EAAF Shorebird Tracking Group to foster information exchange and collaborations on tracking shorebirds in this flyway. Currently she is expanding her horizons by venturing into research on natal dispersal movements, and developing new analytical skills in analysing movement data, population trends and demographic data on survival and reproduction.
Chris HASSELL
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Chris migrated to Australia from the UK in January 1996. He has worked in the ornithological field in Australia and the United Kingdom, in both a professional and voluntary capacity for the last 30 years. His lifelong passion for bird life has taken him into Asia, the Indian sub-continent, north America, and Africa. He has a strong background in catching, counting, scanning, and training and joined research activities in India, Taiwan, and the USA and coordinated extensive studies in northern China with Chinese and Honk Kong colleagues, he has also undertaken professional guiding in Western Australia, Northern Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, and Sri Lanka and been contracted to overseas and Australian agencies as a specialist trainer.
His main role is as the coordinator for the Global flyway Network’s migratory shorebird studies in the EAAF. The focus species are bar and Black-tailed Godwits, Red and Great Knots with colour-marking and tracking devices as the main study tools.
Micha JACKSON
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Micha Jackson has been involved with shorebird research and conservation in Australia and abroad since 2010. She first started monitoring shorebirds in the Top End of Australia and supported Indigenous Ranger groups in remote northern Queensland (Australia) to establish shorebird monitoring programs in collaboration with BirdLife Australia. Micha completed a PhD on shorebird conservation in human-dominated coastal landscapes at the University of Queensland in 2020 after conducting fieldwork in Jiangsu province, China, a critical hotspot for shorebirds on migration. She has been a member of the EAAFP Shorebird Working Group since 2017, is a member of the editorial board of Stilt (journal of the Australasian Wader Study Group), and a co-lead for the Task Team on Science and Evidence of the recently established World Coastal Forum. Micha is currently an ecological researcher with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation studying the movements and management of inland waterbirds.
Yifei JIA
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Associate Professor, Center for EAAF Studies/School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University; East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Science Unit Officer
Yifei’s main research interests focus on wetland ecology and migratory waterbird ecology. He focuses his research on biodiversity conservation as well as wetland conservation and management. He has a strong interest in shorebirds, cranes and storks. Now, Yifei has been working on the conservation of the Yellow Sea wetlands and the conservation biology of shorebirds such as the Spoon-billed Sandpiper and the Nordmann’s Greenshank.