Dr Alex Robbins

Dr Alex Robbins is a marine ornithologist with NatureScot providing advice to industry and government on the impacts of marine renewable energy developments on Scottish seabird populations. Alex started working in conservation policy and advice in 2005. Since 2006 Alex has undertaken seabird fieldwork in Prince William Sound, Alaska and Shetland, UK for her Masters and then PhD, as well as working as a warden on Noss National Nature Reserve. Her research has ranged from exploring predator impacts at colonies to observing seabird behaviour within high-energy tidal environments. In her spare time (around work and raising two young daughters) she is establishing a long-term monitoring program for marine birds in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.