Author Archives: Mayline Strouk

Mayline Strouk is a postdoctoral researcher at the UMR 8504 Géographie-cités department, CNRS, France. Her doctoral research was conducted at STIS, University of Edinburgh and focused on the (im)mobilities of marine ornithologists studying seabirds in the Arctic/North Atlantic.
La photo représente une femme assise dans l’herbe et un homme debout, les mains dans le dos, qui regardent dans la même direction, vers un terrier. Elle tient un poteau en plastique planté dans l’herbe. La mer est derrière, et des macareux volent tout autour.

Fragile Followings: Leaving and Returning to the Ecological Field

Elliðaey Island, in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the coast of Iceland, hosts one of the world’s largest populations of Leach’s storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), a small seabird species. Nearly 90% of the individuals breeding in Iceland nest there, yet knowledge about this species, listed as globally vulnerable on The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List since 2016, remains largely limited (Hurling, 2021). (read more...)