Seabird Tracking Database

Dr. Peter Dann AM has retired as Research Director at Phillip Island Nature Parks (not-for-profit conservation organisation) which carries out investigations of the Island’s significant populations of Little Penguins, Short-tailed Shearwaters, Hooded Plovers, Australian Fur seals and the Island's threatened species. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters and edited a book on penguin ecology and management. His main research interests are population regulation, demography, climate change, mitigation of anthropogenic threats to seabirds, ecology of islands and the conservation of threatened species. He has a life-long commitment to science-based wildlife management and threatened species conservation and is an honorary fellow of Birdlife Australia, a past Board member of the World Seabird Union and co-chair of the scientific committee for the World Seabird Conference in Hobart in 2021.   Peter has held visiting fellow positions at Otago and Cambridge Universities.