Foraging habits of the Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans), a newly arrived and colonising species in the Netherlands
Emilie Manzo
Teaching and supervision
Quantitative ecological and sustainability modelling, from assumptions and data to decisions.
Teaching approach
Teaching focuses on helping students use data, models and uncertainty to reason about ecological and environmental systems. The aim is not only to teach technical tools, but also to make assumptions visible, connect mechanisms to observations and interpret results carefully.
Courses and themes
- Modelling for Sustainability.
- Modelling and Simulation.
- Analysis and Modelling Lab.
- Statistics, simulation, GLMs/GLMMs and reproducible analysis.
- Conservation demography, movement ecology and decision-oriented modelling.
Supervision approach
In thesis projects, students usually begin by exploring data and the ecological system before locking in the final question. Once the signal or pattern is clear, the work moves toward a reproducible pipeline, careful analysis and concise interpretation.
Selected past MSc thesis projects are listed below.
See the Collaborate page for project and collaboration enquiries.
Selected MSc thesis projects
Potential of seabirds as animal sentinels for illegal fishing detection: a lesser black-backed gull study
Eva de Jonghe
Detecting illegal waste dumping using lesser black-backed gull sentinels
Guus Faber
Mapping intertidal habitats for wintering shorebirds with Sentinel-1 CSAR and global tide model EOT20
Isis Kaiser
Tracking animals’ behaviour as sentinels of environmental change
Tohar Tal
Exploration of stork behaviour as an indicator for wildfire detection based on GPS data
Vladimir Davidovic
Assessing the ecological significance of intertidal exposure for migratory shorebirds
Xueying Zhang
Detection of avian influenza from movement and behavioural data of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) collected by tracking devices
Jitske Schreijer
Overwintering on the Iberian Peninsula: a survival benefit compared to flying to Africa for black-tailed godwits?
Ronald van der Woude