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5171
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1760

Overview

Grant Ballard is affiliated with Point Blue Conservation Science in the United States and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their work centers on various subfields including ecology, atmospheric science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, and aerospace engineering.

Their research encompasses a range of topics related to avian ecology and behavior, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, marine animal studies, cryospheric studies and observations, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Ballard has contributed to multiple research articles, with recent publications that include:

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems, 2020, Nature
  • Multidrone aerial surveys of penguin colonies in Antarctica, 2020, Science Robotics
  • The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Drivers of concentrated predation in an Antarctic marginal-ice-zone food web, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The influence of subcolony-scale nesting habitat on the reproductive success of Adélie penguins, 2021, Scientific Reports

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, with notable coauthors including Annie E. Schmidt, David G. Ainley, Megan Elrod, Amélie Lescroël, and Katie M. Dugger.

Ballard's work is often published in specialized scientific venues. The most common publication venues for their research include Birds of the World, Scientific Reports, Antarctic Science, Polar Biology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Data-intensive Science: A New Paradigm for Biodiversity Studies

    Steve Kelling;Wesley M. Hochachka;Daniel Fink;Mirek Riedewald

  • Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Mark A. Hindell;Ryan R. Reisinger;Ryan R. Reisinger;Yan Ropert-Coudert;Luis A. Hückstädt

  • Adélie penguin population change in the pacific sector of Antarctica: relation to sea-ice extent and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    P. R. Wilson;D. G. Ainley;N. Nur;S. S. Jacobs

  • GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF ADÉLIE PENGUIN POPULATIONS: OVERLAP IN COLONY-SPECIFIC FORAGING AREAS

    David G. Ainley;Christine A. Ribic;Grant Ballard;Sacha Heath

  • Competition among penguins and cetaceans reveals trophic cascades in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica

    David G. Ainley;Grant Ballard;Katie M. Dugger

  • Diet and foraging effort of Adelie penguins in relation to pack-ice conditions in the southern Ross Sea

    David G. Ainley;Peter R. Wilson;Kerry J. Barton;Grant Ballard

  • Effects of individual quality, reproductive success and environmental variability on survival of a long-lived seabird.

    Amélie Lescroël;Katie M. Dugger;Grant Ballard;David G. Ainley

  • Spatial and temporal variation of diet within a presumed metapopulation of Adelie penguins

    David G. Ainley;Grant Ballard;Kerry J. Barton;Brian J. Karl

  • An energetic correlate between colony size and foraging effort in seabirds, an example of the Adélie penguinPygoscelis adeliae

    Lisa T. Ballance;David G. Ainley;Grant Ballard;Kerry Barton

  • Paradigm lost, or is top-down forcing no longer significant in the Antarctic marine ecosystem?

    David Ainley;Grant Ballard;Steve Ackley;Louise K. Blight

  • Working less to gain more: when breeding quality relates to foraging efficiency

    Amélie Lescroël;Grant Ballard;Grant Ballard;Viola Toniolo;Kerry J. Barton

  • Coexistence of mesopredators in an intact polar ocean ecosystem: The basis for defining a Ross Sea marine protected area

    Grant Ballard;Dennis Jongsomjit;Samuel D. Veloz;David G. Ainley

  • Responding to climate change: Adélie Penguins confront astronomical and ocean boundaries

    Grant Ballard;Grant Ballard;Viola Toniolo;David G. Ainley;Claire L. Parkinson

  • Survival differences and the effect of environmental instability on breeding dispersal in an Adélie penguin meta-population

    Katie M. Dugger;David G. Ainley;Phil O'b. Lyver;Kerry Barton

  • EFFECT OF INSTRUMENT ATTACHMENT AND OTHER FACTORS ON FORAGING TRIP DURATION AND NESTING SUCCESS OF ADÉLIE PENGUINS

    Grant Ballard;David G. Ainley;Christine A. Ribic;Kerry R. Barton

  • Trends in the Breeding Population of Adélie Penguins in the Ross Sea, 1981–2012: A Coincidence of Climate and Resource Extraction Effects

    Phil O. 'B. Lyver;Mandy Barron;Kerry J. Barton;David G. Ainley

  • Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

    Katharine Keogan;Francis Daunt;Sarah Wanless;Richard A. Phillips

  • Long-term declines and decadal patterns in population trends of songbirds in western North America, 1979-1999

    Grant Ballard;Geoffrey R. Geupel;Nadav Nur;Thomas Gardali

  • Foraging strategies of Adélie penguins: adjusting body condition to cope with environmental variability

    Grant Ballard;Katie M. Dugger;Nadav Nur;David G. Ainley

  • Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation

    Michelle A. LaRue;David G. Ainley;Matt Swanson;Katie M. Dugger

  • EFFECTS OF FLIPPER BANDS ON FORAGING BEHAVIOR AND SURVIVAL OF ADELIE PENGUINS {PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE)

    Katie M. Dugger;Grant Ballard;David G. Ainley;Kerry J. Barton

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Nadav Nur
Nadav Nur Point Blue Conservation Science
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
Kendra L. Daly
Kendra L. Daly University of South Florida
Gerald L. Kooyman
Gerald L. Kooyman University of California, San Diego
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Clive R. McMahon
Clive R. McMahon University of Tasmania
Mary-Anne Lea
Mary-Anne Lea University of Tasmania

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