Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪

@juliaellenbaak.bsky.social

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#Conservation #Biologist focused on #Arctic #seabird and #seaduck #ecology. Based in #Iqaluit, #Nunavut. Posts are my own (She/her)

Custom wool-felted slippers with a black guillemot on each slipper. The left slipper has a black guillemot standing on a rock and right slipper has a black guillemot on a rock with its red gape showing.
Maria Mudd Ruth’s latest book on Pigeon Guillemots, “The Bird with the Flaming Red Feet: Seasons with an Uncommonly Common Seabird”, her book on Marbled Murrelets, “Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet”, and an adorable trinket dish with those bright red guillemot feet!
A young Julia with two coworkers, putting insects in ethanol in a hotel bathroom.
Plot with stable carbon on the X-axis and stable nitrogen on the Y-axis, showing the difference in isotope values between predator (black-legged kittiwake) and prey (fish and invertebrates). Black-legged kittiwakes are in the middle of the plot, below Arctic cod.
Bar graph showing Arctic cod as the dominant prey type, where Arctic char, Northern prawn, and Euphasiidae species only have one occurrence each.
The evening of the blizzard. A house, barely visible through the haze from blowing snow, has a faint glow from the lights on inside. A streetlight glows in the background, shining light on blowing snow.
Alyssa Eby and Samantha Smuk, helping with Eastern Canada Seabirds at Sea surveys on a boat in Frobisher Bay.
Close up of my eye, with frozen eyelashes, where the rest of my face is covered by a qiviut wool hat and buff, and a fox fur hood.
Two brightly-coloured houses on sunny day in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories.
Seabird impacts on adjacent marine ecosystems. Impacts on temperate (left) and tropical (right) ecosystems. Screenshot from the article.
Dr. Olive Love giving a presentation on snow buntings in Iqlauit, Nunavut.
Golden hour sunset over a residential part of Iqaluit, Nunavut, with the frozen bay and mountains in the background.
Zoomed in aerial photo of a beluga whale next to the ice edge, taken in the northern Northwest Territories during sea duck surveys in 2024.
Three women in science, equipped with binoculars, notebooks and other gear, seated on a boat after conducting marine bird surveys in a National Wildlife Area.
Thanks for reading along. Looking forward to 2025!
Birds ringed by category: 19 passerines, 7 seabirds, 5 shorebirds, and 1 raptor.
Julia ringed 31 bird species in two countries
Julia got around 100 lifers this year. Clearly this was her first time visiting South America and some parts of Europe
Julia conducted 4 types of bird surveys, including twin-engine surveys, boat-based surveys, ground surveys, and drone surveys
Julia saved over 350 items to her Zotero library, and definitely didn't read all of those...
Julia published 4 papers in 2024, 2 of which were first-author papers. This was less than the 8 in 2023, but she was working full-time while finishing her PhD, so we can cut her some slack...
Julia had 4 conference presentations, including 1 poster presentation and 3 oral presentations
"Julia Baak's research 2024 wrapped" in the style of Spotify Wrapped
Animal tracks in snow, including small feet that are one in front of the other, and long wingtip imprints in either side.
Sun rising over the ice-covered rocks I Iqaluit, Nunavut
A photo of Julia Baak holding a black guillemot. All birds were handled with the proper permits, training, and care.