Posters will be available for viewing in the Community Rooms
Poster sessions:
Monday 31 August 1650-1800
Wednesday 2 September 1655-1800
Enjoy light refreshments as you explore the displays, engage in conversations with presenters, and expand your professional network in an informal and welcoming environment.
Whether you’re sharing your own work or learning from others, the Poster Session is an excellent way to gain fresh perspectives and make meaningful connections.
With thanks to 
| No. | Poster Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evaluating Ross Sea mesopredator habitat use in response to marine protected area implementation and shifting environmental and sea-ice regimes | Dr Rachel Hickcox |
| 2 | Gaps in the Antarctic treaty system for penguin conservation: Legal challenges and policy recommendations | Inoue Ayumu |
| 3 | Genomic insights into ex situ conservation of Humboldt penguins in Chile | Dyess Harp |
| 4 | Conservation of Humboldt penguins – research, environmental, education, advocacy | Isa Karbstein |
| 5 | Aquariums as platforms for global penguin conservation engagement | Yukari Takashima |
| 6 | Fifteen years of penguin conservation at the end of the world | Aurora Fernandez |
| 7 | Binational conservation of the Humboldt penguin: Integrating science, governance, and communities to address threats in the Humboldt current | Verónica López-Latorre |
| 8 | Evaluating the conservation impact of hand-rearing African penguins | Dr Katrin Ludynia |
| 9 | What does conservation and management look like for little penguins in Tasmania? | Dr Perviz Marker |
| 10 | African penguins’ behaviour is affected by motorboat airborne noise: an experimental study on wild penguins | Dr Andréa Thiebault |
| 11 | Beyond "extra hands": Exploring the multi-dimensional motivations of penguin ecotourism volunteers | Peter Wagstaff |
| 12 | A day as a penguin: welfare monitoring of three zoo-housed African penguin colonies through ethological observations and analysis of keepers' perception | Francesca Bandoli |
| 13 | Where penguins meet people: Spatial overlap between foraging habitats and human pressures in coastal ecosystems | Paulina Arce |
| 14 | Mapping penguin welfare research: A systematic review of 55 years of scientific literature | Francesca Bandoli |
| 15 | Living together: Investigating agonistic and self-directed behaviours in zoo-housed African penguins | Francesca Bandoli |
| 16 | Refreshing a habitat for rescue / rehab kororā (little penguin) at Te Nukuao Wellington Zoo | Kristen Buckley |
| 17 | Exploring the Japanese affinity for penguins through picture books | Makiko Kobayashi |
| 18 | Microplastics in soils from two Adélie penguin colony locations in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica | Megan Reaves |
| 19 | Exploring the impact of translocation on little penguin conservation | Dinand Scholten |
| 20 | Translocation of little penguin chicks to a safe refuge | Dinand Scholten |
| 21 | Overview of the activities of Penguin Fund Japan | Kaoru Shiga |
| 22 | Managing the risk of marine spills and their impact on penguin populations | Sarah Hyland |
| 23 | Crèche foraging behaviour of breeding southern rockhopper penguins: Insights from GPS tracking and camera loggers | Diane Pavat |
| 24 | Behavioural and physiological assessments of captive penguin density to reconsider welfare standards: A multi-species study | Dr Ui Shimabukuro |
| 25 | Living with uncertainty: using multi-model large ensembles to assess emperor penguin extinction risk for the IUCN red list | Alice Eparvier |
| 26 | Surviving the heat: increasing ocean temperatures and shifting breeding patterns of little penguins until the end of the century | Andrea Kaplan |
| 27 | Linking El Niño-driven ocean warming and anchovy availability on Humboldt penguin breeding phenology in Punta San Juan, Peru | Fabrizio Moy |
| 28 | Phylogenetic niche conservatism shapes climate vulnerability in Southern Hemisphere seabirds | Amanda Santos |
| 29 | Is past prologue: Might historically foraging plasticity buffer king penguins against future climate impacts? | Angela Stahl |
| 30 | The heat is on: Behavioural, physiological and reproductive evidence of heat stress in breeding king penguins | Dr Vincent A. Viblanc |
| 31 | Will penguins be able to adapt? Projecting future changes in habitat suitability for both penguins and their prey under climate change scenarios | Andrea Kaplan |
| 32 | A geometric trap: Iceberg-induced collapse of access to an emperor penguin colony | Dr Jeong-Hoon Kim |
| 33 | Response of emperor penguins to 40 years of changing ice conditions at three colonies using satellite remote sensing (1984–2024) | Dr Grant Macdonald |
| 34 | Seasonal shifts in foraging behaviour of little penguins in Oamaru, New Zealand | Henry Elsom |
| 35 | Relationship between meteorological conditions and panting behaviour of Adélie penguins | Yoshiki Hamamura |
| 36 | Chinstrap’s wet winter: GPS and GLS tracking reveal how yearly changes in sea ice shape winter migration strategies of adults and juveniles and highlights potential new risks in a warming scenario | Dr Ignacio Juarez Martinez |
| 37 | Annual variation of sea ice conditions and its impact on the foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins during the incubation period | Dr Nobuo Kokubun |
| 38 | Species-wide assessment of climate-related risk to little penguins using fuzzy logic | Lillian Maher |
| 39 | The role of penguins in nutrient dynamics around the Prince Edward Islands | Lerusha Naidoo |
| 40 | What really happens out at sea? Impacts of coastal turbidity on the foraging behaviour of little penguins | Beth Tremlett |
| 41 | Babesia spp. infection in wild and rehabilitating little penguins: evidence for immune adaptation across life history stages | Dr Rachel Chang |
| 42 | Feather CORT: A novel, minimally invasive monitoring technique for chronic stress levels in New Zealand Kororā | Olivia Ediriweera |
| 43 | Effects of aspergillosis on vocal behaviour and call structure in Humboldt penguins | Victor Scheire |
| 44 | Aspergillosis in African penguins: A persistent health threat. Experience from the Pistoia Zoological Gardens, Italy | Francesca Bandoli |
| 45 | Integrating preparedness and rehabilitation: NAMCOB’s approach to African penguin conservation in Namibia | Kaurimbi Mberirua |
| 46 | Surveillance of influenza A and H5N1 viruses in Antarctic and Subantarctic penguin populations | Claudia Ulloa Contreras |
| 47 | Shifting transponder implantation to the leg following evidence of tag migration | Dr Melanie Young |
| 48 | Re-assessment of long-term survival and breeding success of African penguins oiled in the MV Treasure oil spill in 2000 | Professor Peter Barham |
| 49 | Giving Hoiho chicks a head start: artificial incubation and early-life hand-rearing reduce chick disease | Dr Lisa Argilla |
| 50 | Active disease surveillance in the little penguin | Catherine Binns |
| 51 | From feathers to blood: Metal exposure and potential impacts on blood health parameters in little penguins (Eudyptula minor) | Jacinta Colvin |
| 52 | PFAS exposure in Australian little penguins: a coastal contamination signal | Dr Patricia Corbett |
| 53 | Determinants of egg mass and its relationship with hatchling mass in three captive penguin species | Dr Chika Shirakata |
| 54 | Seabird rehabilitation facilities as early warning systems for high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in South Africa | Albert Snyman |
| 55 | Automatic acoustic identification of individual penguins as the basis of population monitoring | Prof Bernd Meyer |
| 56 | Unique underwing plumage patterns allow individual identification of 350 king penguins at the Bahia Inútil colony, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and most are visiting subadults | Dr Charles Munn |
| 57 | Performance of deep learning models to estimate foraging effort in Antarctic penguins | Dr Stefan Schoombie |
| 58 | Exploring predator–prey dynamics in an urban river-influenced little penguin colony using thermal infrared imaging | Julia Braga |
| 59 | The potential of oil absorbing magnetic particle technology, "magnetic cleansing", in the rescue and rehabilitation of oil-contaminated penguins | Angela Shewan |
| 60 | Optimising environmental DNA sampling and extraction in a coastal marine system | Dr Claire Saraux |
| 61 | How to prepare a penguin skeleton | Ichika Fujimoto |
| 62 | Solving the penguin puzzle: A genetic rescue through artificial insemination and egg transport | Kaori Tsuchiya |
| 63 | Complementary analyses indicate the breadth of the Subantarctic Hoiho diet | Dr Melanie Young |
| 64 | Understanding thermogenesis process and resilience in king penguins | Nina Cossin-Sevrin |
| 65 | Effects of environmental contaminants on penguin decline and the role of reproductive technologies | Dr Siyambulela Mafunda |
| 66 | Supporting individual penguin observation in aquarium exhibits through sketching abdominal spot patterns | Yuki Nakagawa |
| 67 | Insights into the optimisation of egg rescue, artificial incubation and early chick-rearing protocols for successful population reinforcement in African penguins | Dr Lisa Nupen |
| 68 | Intra-seasonal variation and factors influencing satellite-derived population indices of Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea | Alexandra Strang |
| 69 | Philopatric behaviour and breeding dynamics of Humboldt penguins in Punta San Juan, Peru | Arianna Basto |
| 70 | Mixed breeding and interspecific pairing in crested penguins: Towards a global compilation of anomalous reproductive events across colonies | Dr Josabel Belliure |
| 71 | From fluff to fledgling: chick growth and survival in a dynamic world | Sylvie Evans |
| 72 | Using egg density to predict hatching dates in Gentoo penguins | Dr Yuna Kim |
| 73 | Using biologging data to unravel cognitive processes in foraging king penguins: within-trip experience-based decision and across-trip memory | Dr Camille Lemonnier |
| 74 | Fishing tips from expert divers: Ascending foraging strategy in wild Adélie penguins | Miki Nara |
| 75 | Sex-specific variation in pre-moult foraging movements of Magellanic penguins | Chloe Rabinowitz |
| 76 | Little penguins move to coastal refuges to rest overnight under strong sea conditions | Dr Yan Ropert-Coudert |
| 77 | How much monitoring is enough? Estimating the minimum sampling effort required to detect population change in little penguins | Dr Maria Schreider |
| 78 | Video evidence of pteropod predation highlights diet flexibility in Adélie penguins | Dr Hina T. Watanabe |
| 79 | Changes in behaviour of Royal penguins on Macquarie Island over a fifteen-year time frame – observations of an amateur "citizen scientist" | Dr Neisha Wratten |
| 80 | Telomere length variability of Antarctic penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula | Dr Josabel Belliure |
| 81 | Deconstructing predation risk in Magellanic penguins: Drivers of sea lion attacks and penguin behavioural responses in an island system | Joaquin Cano |
| 82 | Comparative breeding parameters of Humboldt penguins between an artificial and a natural colony | Sebastián Lozano |
| 83 | Post-hoc validation of hunting behaviour using unsupervised machine learning approaches | Fraser Masterson |
| 84 | It’s all white: First record of albinism in little penguins at the Phillip Island (Milawul) mega colony, Victoria, Australia | Kat Mcnamara |
| 85 | Do icebreaker vessel tracks guide penguin navigation on Antarctic sea ice? Behavioural observations of Adélie and emperor penguins | Dr Ichiyou Ohara |
| 86 | Site-specific yet broadly consistent foraging behaviour in Gentoo penguins at the Falklands | Prof Pierre Pistorius |
| 87 | CircumPOOlar DNA diet comparison: spatial variation in the diet of Adélie penguin populations at nine breeding sites across Antarctica | Andrea Polanowski |
| 88 | Weekly variation in parental provisioning influences chick growth in little penguins | Max Ronan |
| 89 | Forty years of little penguin breeding success – spatial variation and habitat change at Summerland Peninsula, Milawul (Victoria, Australia) | Dr Maria Schreider |
| 90 | The importance of nestling personality for growth in fluctuating environments: A study in the little penguin | Justine Wintz |
| 91 | Marine distribution and foraging strategies of Hoiho resident on Motu Ihupuku | Dr Melanie Young |
| 92 | A global colony database for all 18 extant penguin species | David Goodman |
| 93 | Which cues are penguins using to evaluate the threat upon the approach of an intruder? | Clara Héquette-ruz |
| 94 | Stage-specific foraging distribution of Kororā/little penguins from Pōhatu/Flea Bay, New Zealand | Dr Rachel Hickcox |
| 95 | Adélie penguins adjust their social foraging strategy in relation to recent foraging success | Toshitaka Imaki |
| 96 | Stage-specific effects of snow on breeding success in penguins | Youmin Kim |
| 97 | From calls to context: Repertoire building and the drivers of vocal variation in penguin species | Katerina Nicola |
| 98 | Where and when to be enumerating Antarctic penguins and evaluating the drivers of their densities across the eastern Antarctic pack ice from at-sea observations | Emilija Reuter |
| 99 | Evidence of rakali predation on a little penguin chick | Tia Scott |
| 100 | Exploring the ontogeny of personality in little penguins | Arisha Silverlake |
| 101 | Fiordland first – a significant step in Taronga Zoo’s breeding program | Jo Walker |
| 102 | Ecological and host drivers of gut microbiome structure in Southern Ocean penguins | Dr Jane Younger |