Dr Barbara Cheney

Dr Barbara Cheney
Dr Barbara Cheney
Dr Barbara Cheney

Advanced Research Fellow

About
Email Address
b.cheney@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

The Lighthouse Field Station

University of Aberdeen

George Street

Cromarty

Ross-shire IV11 8YL

School/Department
School of Biological Sciences

Biography

I am a research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, based at the University's Lighthouse Field Station, where I manage our long-term bottlenose dolphin individual based study.

My current research interest centres on the use and development of techniques, including photo-ID, photogrammetry and acoustics, to study aspects of individual marine mammals to inform ecology and conservation.

Qualifications

  • PhD Ecology 
    2017 - University of Aberdeen 

    Temporal variation in the demographics and dynamics of a bottlenose dolphin population.

  • BSc Marine Biology 
    2004 - University of Aberdeen 
  • BA Business Studies 
    1992 - Glasgow Caledonian University 

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Research Overview

The Lighthouse Field Station research aims to study how natural and anthropogenic variation affects the behaviour, life history and vital rates of marine top predators. I manage our long-term individual based study of bottlenose dolphins on the east coast of Scotland. My current research focuses on the application of individual based studies in marine mammal conservation and I am specifically interested in the use and development of techniques to study the ecology of individual marine mammals.

Research Areas

Biological and Environmental Sciences

Research Specialisms

  • Ecology
  • Marine Biology
  • Population Biology
  • Population Ecology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

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  • Inflation factors influence the estimation of trends in cetacean abundance

    Cheney, B. J., Lusseau, D., Hammond, P. S., Thompson, P. M.
    19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
  • Effects of extrinsic and intrinsic factors on breeding success in a long lived seabird

    Lewis, S., Elston, D. A., Daunt, F., Cheney, B., Thompson, P. M.
    Oikos, vol. 118, no. 4, pp. 521-528
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Coast to coast: First evidence for translocational movements by Scottish bottlenose dolphins (UK)

    Robinson, K. P., Cheney, B. J., Mandleberg, L., Eisfeld, S. M., Costa, M., Johnston, P., Stevick, P. T.
    23rd Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
  • Flexible incubation rhythm in northern fulmars: a comparison between oceanographic zones

    Mallory, M., Gaston, A., Forbes, M., Gilchrist, H., Cheney, B. J., Lewis, S., Thompson, P. M.
    Marine Biology, vol. 154, no. 6, pp. 1031-1040
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Using laser metrics to measure wild bottlenose dolphins

    Cheney, B. J., Barton, T. R., Thompson, P. M.
    22nd Annual European Cetacean Society Conference
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
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