Dr. Mark Mallory
Ornithologist, Arctic Ecologist, Seabird Biologist, Canada Research Chair
Mark studies the effects of all sorts of human activities on coastal environments but specializes in how seabirds are affected by climate change, pollution, and human activity.
Dr. Mark Mallory is Canada Research Chair at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, where he studies effects of climate change, pollution and human activity on coastal environments (especially seabirds) in the Canadian Maritimes and Arctic.Â
He has worked in Nunavut for twenty-five years, and lived in Iqaluit, Nunavut, from 1999 to 2011. Although focused on birds in Canada's High Arctic, Mark's collaborations stretch from Alaska to Norway to Nova Scotia, and he's travelled with Adventure Canada since 2007.Â
He has written over 400 scientific papers, as well as the book Common Birds of Nunavut, and has led over twenty-five Arctic research expeditions. His research led to the creation of Akpait and Qaqulluit National Wildlife Areas on eastern Baffin Island, and the uplisting of ivory gulls to Endangered status.Â
Mark has been appointed to two Arctic Council international expert groups, the College of the Royal Society of Canada, was made a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and was awarded a Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies at the University of Washington.Â
Mostly, though, he just likes watching birds.
