Dr Marianna Chimienti

Lecturer

m.chimienti@bangor.ac.uk

Dr Marianna Chimienti

I am a quantitative ecologist, driven by a desire to advance the research fields of ecology, movement ecology, habitat conservation and species monitoring. I obtained my PhD at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, UK. The topic was to investigate the foraging behaviour of two species of diving seabirds: common guillemots (Uria aalge) and razorbills (Alca torda) during their breeding season. By using combined tracking data collected with GPS, Time Depth Recorders and Accelerometers I characterised their foraging strategies both below and above water, highlighting common behaviours, differences in movements and hunting strategies. Since my PhD I have worked with a variety of species, as Arctic and Northern Hemisphere seabirds, Arctic terrestrial mammals, Mediterranean marine turtles as well as Antarctic species! In general, I focus on research questions related to animal movement processes, their responses to environmental change and their link to population dynamics and life cycle strategies. I use biological data (e.g., accelerometers, GPS, or SRDLs devices) to understand how, where, when and why animals move. I love coding, modeling, I dive into statistical and individual based modeling (IBMs), but ask me to come out in the field with you, and I鈥檒l be the happiest person on the planet! I am joining the School of Ocean Sciences at 麻豆传媒高清版 as Lecturer in Marine Top Predators Ecology and I look forward to keep developing my research on the effects of changes in the availability of marine resources on energetics, fitness, behaviour, decision making and habitat use of marine predators.

  • PhD: "Foraging strategies of diving seabirds across scales: the use of high frequency tracking data to reveal movement decisions in dynamic environments."
    University of Aberdeen, 2017

I am willing to supervise a PhD

2024

  • Published
    Vacqui茅-Garcia, J., Spitz, J., Hammill, M., Stenson, G. B., Kovacs, K. M., Lydersen, C., Chimienti, M., Renaud, M., Fernandez, P. M. & Jeanniard du Dot, T., 30 Mar 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 3, e17186.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Schoombie, S., Jeantet, L., Chimienti, M., Sutton, G. J., Pistorius, P. A., Dufourq, E., Lowther, A. D. & Oosthuizen, C., Jun 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 6, 240271.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Accepted/In press
    Dupuis, B., Kato, A., Hicks, O., Wisniewska, D. M., Marciau, C., Angelier, F., Ropert-Coudert, Y. & Chimienti, M., 12 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Experimental Biology.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Machado-Gaye, A. L., Kato, A., Chimienti, M., Gobel, N., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Barbosa, A. & Soutullo, A., 29 Feb 2024, In: Marine Biology. 171, 69.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2023

  • Published
    Beumer, L. T., Schmidt, N. M., Pohle, J., Signer, J., Chimienti, M., Desforges, J.-P., Hansen, L. H., Pedersen, S. H., Rudd, D. A., Stelvig, M. & van Beest, F. M., 1 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 92, 10, p. 1937-1953
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Dupuis, B., Kato, A., Joly, N., Saraux, C., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Chiaradia, A. & Chimienti, M., 1 Nov 2023, In: Biological Conservation. 110323.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review