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Name
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Mark Grantham
Position
Research Ecologist, Demography Team
Role
Within the Demography Team, I organise the two standardised ringing schemes: Constant Effort Sites (CES) and Retrapping Adults for Survival (RAS). I also manage the wider promotion and publicity for the Ringing Scheme.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, 1989-1992.
Research Interests/Responsibilities

The CES scheme encourages ringers to standardise their mist-netting effort through the breeding season, making 12 visits annually to the same site, using the same netting regime. This standardised effort allows us to monitor several breeding season parameters, such as adult abundance and whole breeding season productivity.

The RAS scheme encourages ringers to intensively target a particular species within a defined area, recatching as many breeding adults as possible every year. By maintaining effort across years, survival rates of adults can be calculated more more precisely, in a way not possible with ring recovery data.

Part of my role remains within the British & Irish Ringing Scheme, promoting and publicising the Scheme and encouraging ringers to do the same more widely. I am also involved in analysis of ring recovery data. Recently I have co-ordinated the analysis of seabird deaths from both wrecks (Fulmar) and oil spills, and am involved in national contingency planning for oil spills.

Within the BTO, I have been a member of the Promotions & Marketing Working Group and currently sit on the Media Group, the Website Steering Group, the Nunnery Lakes Management Group and am also a member of the Seminar Organising Team.
Other Information
I have been interested in migration for as long as I can remember, and for many years have been involved in the running of Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory. I also sit on the Bird Observatories Council, where I am involved in publicity work, database design and am also a sub-editor of the new guide to Bird Observatories. I have also been involved in advising the staff of the fledgling Colombian Ringing Scheme, including helping run their first ringing courses for Colombian students.
Selected Publications
  • Grantham,M.J. & S.E. Newson. 2007. Post-mortem Analysis of Bird Corpses from the Grounding of the MSC Napoli. BTO Research Report 466.
  • Crick, H. Q. P., Atkinson, P.W, Newson, S. E., Robinson, R A., Snow L., Balmer, D.E., Chamberlain,D.E., Clark, J.A., Clark,N.I., Cranswick, P.A., Cromie,R.L., Hughes, B., Grantham, M.J., Lee, R., & Musgrove, A.J. 2007. Avain Influenza Incursion Analysis (through wild birds). BTO Research Report 448.
  • Van Franker, J.A., Heubeck, M., Fairclough, K., Turner, D.M., Grantham, M., Stienen, E.W.M., Guse, N., Pedersen, J., Olsen, K.O., Andersson, P.J. & Olsen, B. 2005. Save the North Sea Fulmar Study 2002-2004: a regional pilot project for the Fulmar-Litter EcoQO in the Ospar area. Wageningen, Alterra, Alterra-rapport 1162.
  • Holloway, S.J., Grantham, M.J., Collier, M.P. & Burton, N.H.K. (Apr 04, Published April 2005). The effects on waterbirds of dredging at the Cardiff Bay Barrage for 2003/04. BTO Research Report 360.
  • Grantham, M. 2004 Age structure and origins of British & Irish Guillemots Uria aalge recovered in recent European oil spills Atlantic Seabirds 6 (3): 95-108.
  • Clark, J., Robinson, R.A., Balmer, D.E., Blackburn, J.R., Griffin, B.M., Adams, S.Y., Collier, M.P. & Grantham, M.J. 2003. Bird ringing in Britain and Ireland in 2002. Ringing & Migration 21: 234-267.
  • Clark, J.A., Balmer, D.E., Adams, S.Y., Grantham, M.J., Blackburn, J.R., Robinson, R.A., Wernham, C.V., Griffin, B.M. & Milne, L.J. 2002. Bird ringing in Britain and Ireland in 2001. Ringing & Migration 21: 80-143.
Contact Details

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01842 750050
01842 768208
British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU

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