I am an ecologist, with particular interests in species distributions, interspecific interactions, feeding ecology, and conservation of birds. At the moment, I am studying the effect that decreases in traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic have had on North American birds. This work is part of the C19-Wild Research Group at the University of Manitoba Natural Resources Institute, as part of the Koper Lab.
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​Much of my other ongoing work focuses on seabirds of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean. This research is run in collaboration with the Lynch Lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, and the field-work is conducted with the non-profit organization Oceanites.
Contact:
michael.schrimpf [at] umanitoba.ca
Natural Resources Institute
University of Manitoba
220-70 Dysart Road
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2M6
See more pictures from my fieldwork in my Flickr album here.

You can watch my remote PhD defense (from 15 Apr 2020) here on Youtube.
Learn more about my research by clicking on the following links:
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The Antarctic
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Analysis