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Alexander L. Bond, PhD
Alex Bond in Australia in 2018 with CAO dog
Born
Canada
EducationMount Allison University (B.Sc.)

University of New Brunswick (M.Sc.)

Memorial University of Newfoundland (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)Conservation scientist and Principal Curator at the Natural History Museum at Tring
EmployerNatural History Museum at Tring

Alexander L. Bond is a Canadian conservation biologist, ecologist, and curator. He holds the position of Principal Curator and Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum at Tring.[1] Bond is actively involved with the marine plastics pollution research group Adrift Lab.[2] Additionally, he serves as the Ornithologist in Residence at St Nicholas Church, Leicester, a church known for its LGBTQ+-inclusive stance.[3]

Education

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In 2005, Bond completed a B.Sc. with Honors in biology from Mount Allison University, during which he published a thesis titled Daytime spring migrations of scoters (Melanitta spp.) in the Bay of Fundy.[4] Subsequently, he pursued a M.Sc at the University of New Brunswick, completing his studies in 2007.[5] His thesis was entitled Patterns of mercury burden in the seabird community of Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick.[5] Bond completed a Ph.D. in 2011 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, with a doctoral thesis titled Relationships between oceanography and the demography & foraging of auklets (Charadriiformes, Alcidae: Aethia; Merrem 1788) in the Aleutian Islands.[5]

Career

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Bond is a conservation biologist with expertise in marine ecology and island biology. His research interests encompass conservation, contaminants, invasive species, plastic pollution, seabird ecology, and stable isotopes.[6] From 2011 to 2013, Bond held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan.[6] From 2013 to 2014, he served as a visiting fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada under the NSERC program. Following that, he held the position of senior conservation scientist at the Centre for Conservation Science of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from 2014 to 2017. Additionally, he served as an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability from 2014 to 2019.[7] Until 2023, he held the position of honorary researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies located in Tasmania, Australia.[8] Bond holds the position of senior curator of birds in the department of life sciences at the Natural History Museum at Tring.[6]

Since 2012, Bond has served as a subject editor for Avian Conservation and Ecology,[6] and he assumed the role of editor-in-chief in 2019.[9]

In 2020, Bond and Beth Montague-Hellen were jointly awarded the Royal Society Athena Prize for their contributions to LGBTQ+ representation in STEM fields.[10] In 2020, he participated in the inaugural QatCanSTEM[11] colloquium at Dalhousie University in Canada.[12] In 2022, Bond was awarded the Marsh Award in Ornithology.[13]

Bond is widely recognized for his research on plastic pollution in oceans,[14][15] particularly focusing on the health impacts it has on seabirds.[16][17][18][19][20] This research has led to the identification of a novel condition known as plasticosis, characterized by scarring of the digestive tracts of seabirds due to the ingestion of plastic waste, also referred to as plastic-induced fibrosis.[21]

References

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Scholia has a profile for Alexander L. Bond (Q42365290).
  1. ^ "Dr Alex Bond | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Marine Plastic & Seabird Research | Adrift Lab". adriftlab.orgundefined. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  3. ^ "The fall of a sparrow observed". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  4. ^ Hicklin, P.W (January 2009). "Daytime Spring Migrations of Scoters (Melanitta spp.) in the Bay of Fundy". ResearchGate.
  5. ^ a b c "Alexander Bond". University of the Highlands and Islands. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d "Dr Alex Bond | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Dr Alex Bond". Dr Alexander Bond. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Adrift Lab". Adrift Lab. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Our Editors - Avian Conservation and Ecology". 7 April 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Royal Society Athena Prize". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Queer Atlantic Canadian STEM". Queer Atlantic Canadian STEM. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  12. ^ "'We exist': Conference celebrates queer voices in STEM". The Signal. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  13. ^ Ornithology, British Trust for (8 December 2010). "Medallists". BTO - British Trust for Ornithology. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  14. ^ Lavers, Jennifer L.; Bond, Alexander L. (6 June 2017). "Exceptional and rapid accumulation of anthropogenic debris on one of the world's most remote and pristine islands". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (23): 6052–6055. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114.6052L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1619818114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5468685. PMID 28507128.
  15. ^ Serra-Gonçalves, Catarina; Lavers, Jennifer L.; Bond, Alexander L. (5 November 2019). "Global Review of Beach Debris Monitoring and Future Recommendations" (PDF). Environmental Science & Technology. 53 (21): 12158–12167. Bibcode:2019EnST...5312158S. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b01424. hdl:10141/622605. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 31577441. S2CID 203652001.
  16. ^ "Ocean plastic is changing the blood chemistry of seabirds". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  17. ^ "Ocean plastic affecting shearwaters' blood chemistry, study finds". Oceanographic. 31 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  18. ^ "Seabirds that eat plastic—and live—have major health problems". Environment. 2 August 2019. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  19. ^ Lavers, Jennifer L.; Hutton, Ian; Bond, Alexander L. (6 August 2019). "Clinical Pathology of Plastic Ingestion in Marine Birds and Relationships with Blood Chemistry". Environmental Science & Technology. 53 (15): 9224–9231. Bibcode:2019EnST...53.9224L. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b02098. hdl:10141/622560. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 31304735. S2CID 196613959.
  20. ^ Lavers, Jennifer L.; Hutton, Ian; Bond, Alexander L. (1 August 2018). "Ingestion of marine debris by Wedge-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna pacifica) on Lord Howe Island, Australia during 2005–2018". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 133: 616–621. Bibcode:2018MarPB.133..616L. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.023. hdl:10141/622374. ISSN 0025-326X. PMID 30041356. S2CID 51714417.
  21. ^ Horton, Helena; reporter, Helena Horton Environment (3 March 2023). "New disease caused by plastics discovered in seabirds". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 December 2023.

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