John W. Chardine

Research Scientist - Marine Ecosystems

Canadian Wildlife Service Office (Sackville, NB)

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH - Contributing to Environment Canada’s mandate to ensure wildlife is conserved and protected

• Population dynamics and feeding ecology of phalaropes staging in the outer Bay of Fundy
• Role of ocean climate variability on seabird population ecology in Atlantic Canada
• Population ecology of Razorbills in collaboration with Dr. Tony Diamond, Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network (ACWERN)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS

Canadian delegate, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Working Group on Seabird Ecology

Associate Editor, Waterbirds; Editorial Board Member, Seabird

Past and current Adjunct Professor/Honourary Research Fellow at four Atlantic Canada universities

Supervisor for 6 M.Sc. theses and one B.Sc. honours thesis; member of numerous graduate student committees

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Barrett, R.T., C.J. Camphuysen, T. Anker-Nilssen, J.W. Chardine, R.W. Furness, S. Garthe, O. Hüppop, M.F. Leopold, W.A. Montevecchi and R.R. Veit. 2007. Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64:1675-1691.

Breton, A.R., G.A. Fox and J.W. Chardine. 2008. Survival of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) breeding in a Lake Ontario colony over two decades of environmental change. Waterbirds 31:15-23.

Massaro, M., J.W. Chardine, I.L. Jones and G.J. Robertson. 2000. Delayed capelin (Mallotus villosus) availability influences predatory behaviour of large gulls on black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), causing a reduction in kittiwake breeding success. Can. J. Zool. 78: 1588-1596.

Chardine, J.W., A. J. Fontaine, H. Blokpoel, M. Mallory and T. Hofmann. 2004. At-sea observations of Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea) in the eastern Canadian high arctic in 1993 and 2002: indication of a population decline. Polar Record 40:355-359.

Chardine, J.W. 2002. Geographic variation in the wing-tip patterns of Black-legged Kittiwakes. Condor 104:687-693. [DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0687:GVITWP]2.0.CO;2.]

Chardine, J.W., J. Porter and K. Wohl. 2000. Workshop on seabird incidental catch in the waters of Arctic countries: report and recommendations. CAFF Tech. Rep. No. 7. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Iceland. 65 pp.