Marie Helene Burke - 2010

Marie Helene Burke grew up in France and has worked on avian research projects all over the world.  She is currently working on completing her PhD at Simon Frasier University in British Columbia.  Ms. Burke is continuing her study of the Tuamota Sandpiper and this summer will be spending her second full season on the remote atolls of French Polynesia where this species lives.  In addition to the ongoing collection of demographic, phenologic and breeding data of this unique species, a study to determine the potential for recolonization of this species to a small island where a rat removal project has been performed will be completed.