Biography:Alexander L. Bond

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Short description: Canadian conservation biologist, ecologist, and curator
Alexander L. Bond, PhD
Alex and Alfie 2018 2.jpg
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.)
OccupationConservation 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 is Principle Curator and Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum at Tring.[1] Dr. Bond is a key member of the marine plastics pollution research group Adrift Lab.[2] He is also the Ornithologist in Residence at St Nicholas Church, Leicester, a noted LGBTQ+-inclusive church.[3]

Education

Dr Bond completed a B.Sc. with Honors in biology from Mount Allison University in 2005 and published a thesis titled Daytime spring migrations of scoters (Melanitta spp.) in the Bay of Fundy. He earned an M.Sc. from University of New Brunswick in 2007.[4] His thesis was entitled Patterns of mercury burden in the seabird community of Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick.[4] Bond completed a Ph.D. in 2011 at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His thesis there was called Relationships between oceanography and the demography & foraging of auklets (Charadriiformes, Alcidae: Aethia; Merrem 1788) in the Aleutian Islands.[4] He was a NSERC Visiting Fellow in Government Laboratories, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada from 2013 – 2014[5] and a NSERC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan from 2011 to 2013.[6]

Career

Bond is a conservation biologist with a focus on the marine environment and island biology. His current specialisations include conservation, contaminants, invasive species, plastic, seabirds and stable isotopes.[6] He was a NSERC visiting fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada from 2013 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017, he was a senior conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at the Centre for Conservation Science. Bond was an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability from 2014 to 2019.[7] until 2023 he was an honorary researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies based in Tasmania, Australia.[8] Bond is a senior curator of birds in the department of life sciences at the Natural History Museum at Tring.[6]

Since 2012, Dr. Bond is a subject editor of Avian Conservation and Ecology[6] and is editor-in-chief since 2019.[9]

In 2020 Dr. Bond and Beth Montague-Hellen shared the Royal Society Athena Prize for work with LGBTQ+ STEM.[10] In 2020, he took part in the inaugural QatCanSTEM[11] colloquium at Dalhousie University in Canada.[12] In 2022, Dr Bond received the Marsh Award in Ornithology.[13]

Bond is most noted for his work on plastic pollution in oceans[14][15] and especially the health effects on seabirds.[16][17][18][19][20] This work has resulted in the identification of a new disease, termed plasticosis, which results in a scarring of the digestive tracts of seabirds from ingesting plastic waste (plastic-induced fibrosis).[21]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Alex Bond | Natural History Museum" (in en). https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/alex-bond.html. 
  2. ↑ "Marine Plastic & Seabird Research | Adrift Lab" (in en). https://adriftlab.orgundefined/. 
  3. ↑ "The fall of a sparrow observed". https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/9-september/features/features/the-fall-of-a-sparrow-observed. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Alexander Bond" (in en). https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/persons/alexander-bond. 
  5. ↑ "Alex Bond – The Environmental Research Institute" (in en-GB). https://eri.ac.uk/members/alex-bond/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Dr Alex Bond | Natural History Museum" (in en). https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/alex-bond.html. 
  7. ↑ "Dr Alex Bond" (in en). 2013-06-20. https://alexanderbond.org/profile/. 
  8. ↑ "Adrift Lab" (in en-AU). https://adriftlab.org/. 
  9. ↑ "Our Editors - Avian Conservation and Ecology" (in en-US). 2022-04-07. https://ace-eco.org/our-editors/. 
  10. ↑ "Royal Society Athena Prize" (in en). https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/athena-prize/. 
  11. ↑ "Queer Atlantic Canadian STEM" (in en). https://qatcanstem.github.io/. 
  12. ↑ "'We exist': Conference celebrates queer voices in STEM" (in en-US). https://signalhfx.ca/halifax-event-connects-queer-voices-in-stem/. 
  13. ↑ Ornithology, British Trust for (2010-12-08). "Medallists" (in en). https://www.bto.org/about-bto/governance/ornithology-awards/medallists. 
  14. ↑ Lavers, Jennifer L.; Bond, Alexander L. (2017-06-06). "Exceptional and rapid accumulation of anthropogenic debris on one of the world's most remote and pristine islands" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (23): 6052–6055. doi:10.1073/pnas.1619818114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 28507128. Bibcode: 2017PNAS..114.6052L. 
  15. ↑ Serra-Gonçalves, Catarina; Lavers, Jennifer L.; Bond, Alexander L. (2019-11-05). "Global Review of Beach Debris Monitoring and Future Recommendations". Environmental Science & Technology 53 (21): 12158–12167. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b01424. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 31577441. Bibcode: 2019EnST...5312158S. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/31874/1/135317%20-%20Global%20review%20of%20beach%20debris%20monitoring_preprint.pdf. 
  16. ↑ "Ocean plastic is changing the blood chemistry of seabirds" (in en). https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/july/ocean-plastic-is-changing-the-blood-chemistry-of-seabirds.html. 
  17. ↑ "Ocean plastic affecting shearwaters' blood chemistry, study finds" (in en-GB). 2019-07-31. https://www.oceanographicmagazine.com/ocean-plastic-shearwaters/. 
  18. ↑ "Seabirds that eat plastic—and live—have major health problems" (in en). 2019-08-02. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/seabirds-eat-plastic-major-health-effects/. 
  19. ↑ Lavers, Jennifer L.; Hutton, Ian; Bond, Alexander L. (2019-08-06). "Clinical Pathology of Plastic Ingestion in Marine Birds and Relationships with Blood Chemistry". Environmental Science & Technology 53 (15): 9224–9231. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b02098. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 31304735. Bibcode: 2019EnST...53.9224L. 
  20. ↑ Lavers, Jennifer L.; Hutton, Ian; Bond, Alexander L. (2018-08-01). "Ingestion of marine debris by Wedge-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna pacifica) on Lord Howe Island, Australia during 2005–2018" (in en). Marine Pollution Bulletin 133: 616–621. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.06.023. ISSN 0025-326X. PMID 30041356. Bibcode: 2018MarPB.133..616L. 
  21. ↑ Horton, Helena; reporter, Helena Horton Environment (2023-03-03). "New disease caused by plastics discovered in seabirds" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds. 

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