Nigel is based at the School of Environmental and Animal Sciences , Unitec Institute of Technology where he teaches into their programmes in Biodiversity Management,  Animal  Behavior and Welfare. Nigel completed his PhD on the feeding biology and energetics of penguins in the  sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. He subsequently worked on Cape gannets and African Penguins off the South African coast.  More recent work in New Zealand has included projects on the stress physiology of Grey -faced petrels and foraging ecology of Australasian gannets.

Chris is the project coordinator for the Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust. He has 16 years’ experience project managing for seabird/island surveys/research expeditions for northern New Zealand, and advocacy for seabirds and the environments they inhabit. Special areas of research include, petrels of the South Pacific Ocean including New Zealand; pioneering at-sea capture methods of Procellariiformes which led to the discovery of the NZ storm petrel breeding on Te Hauturu-o-Toi (Little Barrier Island). From 2013 to 2015 he was project coordinator for the Important Bird Area Programme (NZ seabirds) with Forest & Bird/BirdLife International. 

Matt is Curator of Land Vertebrates at Auckland War Memorial Museum. His research specialty sits within the fields of avian behaviour, conservation ecology and evolution but has a strong cross-disciplinary focus combining tracking technologies, behavioural datasets and cellular analyses of field and museum specimens to understand biological change of bird communities in space and time.  Matt has a 15-year research programme on the biology of Hauraki Gulf and New Zealand seabirds with active study sites ranging from the New Zealand mainland, offshore islands, and also international field collaborations in Australia and the tropical Pacific.