Rethinking the way we farm

Impacts of terrestrial heat waves on survival of little penguins during moult

Local weather, microclimate and nest-scale drivers of shy albatross chick mortality and breeding success

Successful fairy prion (Pachyptila turtur) breeding through the climate events of the last seventeen years

Individual Heermann's Gull (Larus heermanni) breeding strategies in a changing world: Are they adaptive any longer?

Breeding seabirds increase foraging range in response to an extreme marine heatwave

Increased sensitivity of common murres to top-down disturbance by bald eagles during poor foraging conditions of a marine heatwave

Breeding success of Short-tailed Shearwaters Ardenna tenuirostris following large-scale oceanographic change

Variation in live-capture rates of albatrosses and petrels in fisheries, post-release survival and implications for monitoring and management

Seabird bycatch in the eastern Canadian Arctic

Plastic connectivity: disentangling the problem of plastic pollution for pelagic seabirds

Seabirds and plastic pollution in the Russian seas - first national review on the problem

Sub-lethal health effects of plastic ingestion in seabirds: Disentangling the demonstrated from the perceived

Helping the UK food system achieve global environmental goals with the Courtauld Commitment

Maritime Domain Awareness Q&A Session

Branding and pro-conservation behavior toward agritourism in Florida, integrative leisure constraints model

A keynote speech with Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK **Speaker**: Bina Agarwal **Biography**: Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was Professor and Director at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. She was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi.

Agarwal has been President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and Vice President of the International Economics Association. She holds honorary doctorates from ISS, The Hague, and the University of Antwerp, and is an elected member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy as well as a Fellow of The World Academy of Science (TWAS).

She has written extensively on agrarian change, environmental governance, property and land rights, food security, and poverty and inequality, especially from a gender and political economy perspective. Her 13 books include the award-winning, A Field of One’s Own (Cambridge University Press,1994); Gender and Green Governance (Oxford University Press, 2010); Gender Challenges (OUP, 2016), a three volume compendium of her selected papers, and Gender Inequalities in Developing Economies (2021, in Italian trans.). She has written for the New York Times, and writes often for Indian Express, Times of India and Outlook.

Among her many awards and honours are several book prizes; a Padma Shri prize in 2008 from the President of India; the Leontief Prize 2010 ‘for advancing the frontiers of economic thought’; the Louis Malassis International Scientist Prize 2017; Order of Agricultural Merit, France, 2017; and the International Balzan Prize 2017, ‘for challenging established premises in economics and the social sciences by using an innovative gender perspective’.

Rethinking the way we farm - Bina Agarwal

keynote

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/zKM7NAChJG-PO1rxZ78ngGlX3b7c7AB1DI2AMWHkdzFOJLD_zebS1OhaCujoJjI.GY_9fxXDQgo9ZxI5?startTime=1633471410000) 
 
**Session Chair: **John Piatt 
**Session Description:** Extreme temperature anomalies are increasing in frequency in all oceans and adjacent coastal regions of the world. The impact of extreme (in magnitude and/or duration) heating events on seabirds has been manifested widely in a variety of biological and behavioural phenomena, including mass mortality events, reproductive failures, reduced survival, shifts in phenology of breeding or migration, and shifts in distribution at sea. However, the actual mechanisms by which heating events affect seabirds are not as well described. In this symposium, we invite presentations that propose or demonstrate specific mechanisms of extreme heat impact. For example, physiological response of seabirds to anomalous heating during nesting, including secondary effects of rainfall, drought, or disease on nesting success; heat-induced changes in oceanography, productivity, forage nekton abundance and distribution, or forage composition and quality; increased competitive competition with large predatory fish and marine mammals; and any other mechanisms which ultimately lead to the more visible responses of seabirds to extreme heating.

Symposium 6 - Heatwave impacts on marine birds I

symposium

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/4q4iju2CBBGstkcqC3BEOS7_4YUJ_psl_pV7G_og9qnNZu8oImGwXITHVeaGcO8.b6Ta8wfRayZ-mAwL?startTime=1633471410000) 

**Session Chair: **John Piatt 
**Session Description:** Extreme temperature anomalies are increasing in frequency in all oceans and adjacent coastal regions of the world. The impact of extreme (in magnitude and/or duration) heating events on seabirds has been manifested widely in a variety of biological and behavioural phenomena, including mass mortality events, reproductive failures, reduced survival, shifts in phenology of breeding or migration, and shifts in distribution at sea. However, the actual mechanisms by which heating events affect seabirds are not as well described. In this symposium, we invite presentations that propose or demonstrate specific mechanisms of extreme heat impact. For example, physiological response of seabirds to anomalous heating during nesting, including secondary effects of rainfall, drought, or disease on nesting success; heat-induced changes in oceanography, productivity, forage nekton abundance and distribution, or forage composition and quality; increased competitive competition with large predatory fish and marine mammals; and any other mechanisms which ultimately lead to the more visible responses of seabirds to extreme heating.

Symposium 6 - Heatwave impacts on marine birds II

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/4xPgC1nitE7emGCm3ZRFCXJlQatPKImJ76T47JJbP9trbDpLSPTqo0QxUH8d5fZz.h5su3mosxpvGpadA?startTime=1633529453000) 

**Session Chair: **John Piatt 
**Session Description:** Extreme temperature anomalies are increasing in frequency in all oceans and adjacent coastal regions of the world. The impact of extreme (in magnitude and/or duration) heating events on seabirds has been manifested widely in a variety of biological and behavioural phenomena, including mass mortality events, reproductive failures, reduced survival, shifts in phenology of breeding or migration, and shifts in distribution at sea. However, the actual mechanisms by which heating events affect seabirds are not as well described. In this symposium, we invite presentations that propose or demonstrate specific mechanisms of extreme heat impact. For example, physiological response of seabirds to anomalous heating during nesting, including secondary effects of rainfall, drought, or disease on nesting success; heat-induced changes in oceanography, productivity, forage nekton abundance and distribution, or forage composition and quality; increased competitive competition with large predatory fish and marine mammals; and any other mechanisms which ultimately lead to the more visible responses of seabirds to extreme heating.

Symposium 6 - Heatwave impacts on marine birds III

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/LvhoId4USuzDWfn4ktPxSrYyi1sSoqlqYg5a0pBayRDD2jwwrpImrTHApcI4Z9Di.Hmp-Gg8EUoFoJmw-?startTime=1633701943000) 

**Session Chairs: **Rory Crawford, Stephanie Prince, Pamela Michael, Amanda Gladics, Tom Good 
**Session Description:** Seabird bycatch in fisheries remains the greatest threat to seabirds alongside Invasive Non-Native Species. Solutions are now well-established for trawl and longline fisheries and have been adopted in a number of fisheries to great effect, but broadscale implementation remains a barrier to improving the conservation status of threatened seabirds, perhaps most notably albatrosses. Given the vast at-sea ranges of many seabirds affected by fisheries, these implementation gaps – both in national waters and on the High Seas – need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. As well as shining a light on the success stories (and what has made them successful), this symposium will focus on the outstanding challenges that need to be addressed: from the fundamental basics (how to estimate bycatch levels from often low sampling effort and zero-inflated data) to the balance of ‘carrots’ and ‘sticks’ in achieving broader uptake, to tackling bycatch in other gear types, particularly gillnets and purse seines.

Symposium 14 - Seabird bycatch in commercial fisheries: Progress and challenges II

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/lylR1swu-PGy1wE7u0RiBupUZ2_UJMIXsi-Ic0ZyCLbt5dQd9inv4vlh42abFbGb.CH4Sm_1WlaNEJozb?startTime=1633730344000) 

**Session Chairs: **Rory Crawford, Stephanie Prince, Pamela Michael, Amanda Gladics, Tom Good 
**Session Description:** Seabird bycatch in fisheries remains the greatest threat to seabirds alongside Invasive Non-Native Species. Solutions are now well-established for trawl and longline fisheries and have been adopted in a number of fisheries to great effect, but broadscale implementation remains a barrier to improving the conservation status of threatened seabirds, perhaps most notably albatrosses. Given the vast at-sea ranges of many seabirds affected by fisheries, these implementation gaps – both in national waters and on the High Seas – need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. As well as shining a light on the success stories (and what has made them successful), this symposium will focus on the outstanding challenges that need to be addressed: from the fundamental basics (how to estimate bycatch levels from often low sampling effort and zero-inflated data) to the balance of ‘carrots’ and ‘sticks’ in achieving broader uptake, to tackling bycatch in other gear types, particularly gillnets and purse seines.

Symposium 14 - Seabird bycatch in commercial fisheries: Progress and challenges III

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/1Hh_AXVtzbQUM7bRzNj2ZEZhU-6_mRWwQTWihEGl0v5mpllhZRe_7rv8ppQP-rdu.QbbQAAg3WGtMjWuF?startTime=1633730429000) 
 
**Session Chairs: **Denise Hardesty, Lauren Roman 
**Session Description:** Marine debris is a recent and growing threat in the ocean environments. Seabirds are extensively known to interact with marine debris, and are affected by both entanglement and ingestion. There is widespread evidence of seabird and marine debris interactions across many species and in all geographic zones. Despite evidence of ubiquitous interactions, the magnitude of threat to each individuals and populations is difficult to monitor, and consequences are widely debated. Potential consequences range from sub-lethal toxicological effects (i.e. sub-lethal toxicity, hormone and potential reproductive effects associated with plastic ingestion), to debilitation observed with entanglement, to direct mortality associated with both ingestion and entanglement. Despite the prevalence of interactions (50% of all seabirds known to interact with marine debris, predicted to increase to 99% by 2050), only 18 seabirds have “Garbage and Solid Waste” listed as a threat on the IUCN red list (One Charadriiforme, One Sphenisciforme, three Suliformes and 13 Procellariiformes). There is currently mixed evidence for sub-lethal effects associated with debris ingestion (toxicity etc) and mixed concern regarding the scale of direct mortality associated with each entanglement and ingestion. 
This symposium would aim to 
1) Establish a criteria for assessing demonstrated threat agreeable to the experts in the field,
2) Apply this criteria across all seabird species where sufficient data is known to assess he avenues of marine debris threat, and 
3) Create a list of priority questions to fill critical knowledge gaps.
Ultimately, the aim would be to update the marine debris threat status on the IUCN red list for all seabird species where data is sufficient.

Symposium 17 - The threat of marine debris to seabirds: Detangling the demonstrated from the perceived I

**AGENDA**

**The Courtauld Commitment In the introductory session**

Dr David Moon will explain how the Courtauld Commitment is adapting to meet new demands, and why these changes are essential to achieving national and global goals.

**Meeting the needs of UK food and drink **

We’ll take a look at how collaboration under the agreement has benefited UK food and drink plc and the successes achieved so far.

**The Courtauld Commitment**

We’ll take you through what’s available to Courtauld Commitment signatories. We’ll unveil a new signatory level designed to help even more businesses enjoy the benefits of the Commitment.

**Existing signatories**

Existing signatories will explain why they are a part of Courtauld, and what they see as the benefits as we move into the future.

**Panel discussion**

Questions answered by our experts.

Webinar

webinar

**Moderator:** [Jeff Byers](https://www.underline.io/speakers/80146-jeff-byers)

**Speakers:** 

[Kyle Rice](https://www.underline.io/speakers/77567-kyle-rice)

[Tegan Emerson](https://www.underline.io/speakers/79700-tegan-emerson)

[Neil Bomberger](https://www.underline.io/speakers/80435-neil-bomberger)

[Lena Nans](https://www.underline.io/speakers/78913-lena-nans)


Agricultural and Biological Sciences