Caoimhe Abdul-Wahab

Caoimhe Abdul-WahabPhD student

Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43(0)662 80445604

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Room: D-2.037

 

Research Interest

  • Dispersal behaviours of Placid greenbul through animal tracking
  • The impact of anthropogenic activity on avian behaviour and physiology

Curriculum Vitae

Education and training

  • 12/2024: University of Salzburg, Austria; Doctoral studies (PhD) in the natural sciences at the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences
  • 09/2019 – 07/2023: Royal Veterinary College, University of London, United Kingdom, Integrated Masters (MSci) in Wild Animal Biology. Master’s Dissertation (October 2022 – June 2023) title: Connected Impacts: Combining migration tracking data with species distribution models, reveals the complex potential impact of climate change on European Bee-eaters.

Work experience

  • 04/2024 – 11/2024: Research Assistant for the Blue tit and Lundy House Sparrow projects, Imperial College London, UK. I conducted brood surveys, collected biological samples including blood and cloacal microbiome samples, and undertook bird ringing training.
  • 02/2024 – 11/2024: Wildlife Care Assistant, Secret World Wildlife Rescue, UK. My main responsibilities were the husbandry care and medical treatment of wildlife and maintenance of recovery enclosures for British wildlife species.
  • 06/2021- 08/2021: Summer Studentship Programme; Processing and analysis of frog arm movement on different substrates. Royal Veterinary College, UK. I managed data collection and statistical data analysis of the project, which I used to produce 3D figures of frog arm to model the movement over different substrates and compare to human arm movement.

Grants and awards

  • 2023: Sam Hignett Travelling Scholarship; Awarded £500 to conduct fieldwork on European Bee-eaters, within Portugal with the research team I collaborated with during my Master’s research project.
  • 2021: Animal Care trust Summer Studentship Programme; I was awarded this grant to fund 8 weeks of full-time research in a student internship investigating the movement of frog arms, totally £3500.

Computer Skills

  • Microsoft Office Software; Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams
  • R Programming Language: Experience with species distribution models, climate change projections and migratory connectivity analysis
  • Mathematica: Experience in statistical analysis and 3D modelling.

Affiliations

  • Royal Society of Biology (AMRSB)

Publications

Abdul-Wahab C, Costa JS, D’Mello F, Häkkinen H (2024) Connected impacts: combining migration tracking data with species distribution models reveals the complex potential impacts of climate change on European Bee-eaters. Journal of Ornithology 165: 1063–1076.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-024-02190-z