Since all team members are on board, a first ‘real-life’ meeting was needed. The second week of 2018 the whole team visited the Stellenbosch University in South-Africa, and thus this week can be seen as the official start of the Seabird Sound project! Goal of the week, introduction on previous work, future plan for the project and to get to know each other.
During the week everybody showed their skills and discussed what and why it contributes to the project. A good start with many new thoughts. Besides hard work and discussing, there was also time to relax. With some good wine, magnificant views, wild life, table mountain, seabirds, infrasound and really good company this was not very hard.
After 8 days of hard work and discussing, all went home with new ideas and a lot of motivation. Next meeting, May 2018 – Liverpool!
After a few months of interviewing candidates, Skyping, setting up forms and agreements and more Skyping we have now finally started with the project! The team is now complete – so with a group of 8 enthousiast researchers in total we’re now off to unravel the mysteries of seabird navigation, potentially linking the fields of geophysics and biology!
Our team has just been awarded a 
Seabird acoustics 