 Director, Wildlife Management Programme
Email philip.seddon@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Publications:
Dr Seddon's publications are available here
Teaching:
- Wildlife management
- Conservation biology
- Harvest management
- Ecology of communities and ecosystems
 Research Interests:
- Restoration of threatened species
- Ecology of mammalian pest species
- Seabird, specifically penguin, ecology
- Assessment of the impacts of nature-based tourism
Current Projects:
- Application of remote sensing, GIS and GPS technology to quantify spatial ecology at all scales (current collaboration and student co-supervision with Tony Moore (School of Surveying), Peter Whigham (Information Science), Tim Molteno (Physics), Kath Dickinson (Botany).
- Conservation Management of native species (current/recent collaborative and student projects include work on black stilt (kaki), brown teal (pateke), buff weka, robins, kaka, black-billed gulls, yellow-eyed penguins, grand and Otago skinks.
- Assessment, mitigation and management of human/tourism influences on seabirds.
- Strategic planning for wildlife reintroductions in collaboration with the IUCN Re-introduction Specialist Group.
 Current and Recent Postgraduate Students
- Sanne Boessenkool (PhD): Genetic basis for management of Yellow-eyed Penguins
- Ursula Ellenberg (PhD): Physiological, behavioural and reproductive responses to human disturbance in penguins.
- Konnie Gebauer (PhD): Spatially explicit population models for grand skinks
- Rachel McClellan (PhD): Breeding ecology and management of black-billed gulls
- Georgina Pickerell (PhD): Investigating interactive effects of island characteristics and water flow on predation risk to nesting black-fronted terns.
- Mariano Recio (PhD): Spatial ecology of feral domestic cats and European hedgehogs
- Mike Thorsen (PhD): Changes to plant recruitment patterns as result of loss of dispersal agents
- Ryan Clark (MSc): The spatial ecology of Yellow-0eyed Penguin nest site selection
- Emma Craig (MSc): Translocation as a restoration tool for fairy prions
- Tara Leech (MSc): Evaluating Kaka as an umbrella species in New Zealand
- Liz Rayner (MSc): The functional response of rabbits in New Zealand
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