ASG Student Project Grant for 2024

The ASG revitalised 2024 Student Project Grant was awarded to Isabelle Beaudoin, who is undertaking an MSc at the University of Auckland.

Her project was investigating coastal variation in ōi/grey-faced petrel (Pterodroma gouldi) breeding phenology. Recent research has shown there to be a remarkable difference between their breeding success on the west and east coasts of New Zealand.

As part of Isabelle's work, she will translocate eggs between east and west coast colonies to exclude colony-specific evolutionary history as an explanatory factor confounding environmental variation.

Final results will be reported in the ASG e-bulletin in 2026.

Image shows Isabelle with a Black-footed Albatross on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) where she is carrying out a 7-month placement before returning to the ōi/grey-faced petrels in May 2025.