Bradley P.

Wilkinson
Personal Information

Address: Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation

South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
261 Lehotsky Hall, Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
Email Address: bpwilki@g.clemson.edu

Education

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Expected Date of Graduation: May, 2021
Doctor of Philosophy in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Dissertation: Movement ecology of Eastern brown pelicans Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis in the
South Atlantic Bight
Advisor: Dr. Patrick G.R. Jodice
GPA: 3.94

San José State University, San Jose, California

Date of Graduation: May, 2017
Masters of Science in Biological Sciences
Concentration in Ecology and Evolution
Thesis: Spatial ecology of foraging rhinoceros auklets Cerorhinca monocerata breeding within the central
California Current System
Advisor: Dr. Scott A. Shaffer
GPA: 4.0

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Date of Graduation: May, 2013
Bachelor of Science in Zoology, Minor in Spanish
GPA: 3.25

Professional Experience

Marbled Murrelet Surveyor

Turnstone Environmental Consultants April 2015-August 2015
Supervisor: Sarah McCord

 Located throughout the Coast Range of central Oregon.

 Passed standardized protocol examination as prerequisite to successful employment.
 Regular duties included basic navigation to remote field sites, following established standardized
protocols for interpreting murrelet detections, daily data management, implementing strict safety
protocols, establishing new field locations, and facilitating communication between supervisors
and contractors.
 Duties were performed on average six days a week, for approximately seven hours per day.

Avian Research Technician

Wake Forest University October 2014 – January 2015
Supervisor: David Anderson

 Located in a remote field camp on Isla Española, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

 Regular duties included locating and daily monitoring of nests for a ~600 pair sub-colony of
Nazca Boobies, individual identification of all breeding adults via band resighting, egg
measurement, GPS marking, and daily data entry.
 Additional duties included behavioral observations of non-breeding adults including night
surveys, field installation of video recording equipment, assisting in deployment of remote-
tracking GPS units on adult boobies using standard methodologies, assisting in banding of pre-
fledgling Waved Albatross and general handling of adult boobies when necessary.
 Duties associated with maintaining a remote field camp with limited staff also performed. Duties
were performed seven days a week, for approximately ten hours per day.

Field Assistant II
MassAudubon July2014- September 2014
Supervisor: Cris Luttazi

 Located in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with field work taking place on lands held by the National
Park Service.
 Regular duties included resighting endangered Roseate Terns through the identification of various
individually-marked banding schemes, determining ages and parental relationships of banded
terns, assessing flock sizes and species composition, and recording disturbance events.
 Responsible for personal data entry and management, participating on various administrative
duties, and beta-testing novel database systems.
 Additionally utilized four-wheel drive off-road vehicles and ocean kayaks to reach remote field
locations.

Field Assistant
Florida State University February 2014- June 2014
Supervisors: Carla Vanderbilt and Emily DuVal

 Located in a remote field camp on Isla Boca Brava, Panama.

 Assisted doctoral student studying the behavior and genetics of breeding Lance-tailed Manakins.
 Regular duties included mist-netting adults, color banding nestlings, obtaining blood samples,
resighting color-banded individuals, conducting behavioral observations at breeding sites,
monitoring video recording equipment, and targeted nest-searching.

Raptor Migration Observer

HawkWatch International September 2013-November 2013
Supervisor: Shawn Hawks and Cherin Spencer-Bower

 Located in a remote field camp near Commissary Ridge, Wyoming.

 Regular duties included identifying migrating raptors over designated observation point, ageing
and sexing migrating raptors, recording weather data, and reporting daily totals to supervisor.
 Additional duties included maintaining remote campsite, limited trapping and banding of
migrating raptors, erecting and dismantling trapping station including care of lure birds, and
interfacing with educational groups and public visitors.
 Duties were performed six days a week, for approximately nine hours per day.

Field Crew Leader and Lead Bander/ Bleeder May 2013 – July 2013
Biological Field Technician May 2012 – August 2012
Volunteer Biological Field Technician May 2011 – August 2011
United States Geological Survey/ Alaska Science Center
Supervisor: David Ward

 Located in a remote field camp within the Colville River Delta, Alaska.
 General duties included intensive shorebird nest searching and monitoring, targeted shorebird
banding including age and sex determination, color banding, band resighting, obtaining
morphometric data, and blood, feather and fecal sampling, preparing blood samples, predator
surveying, and snow surveying.
 Specific leadership activities included managing shorebird crew consisting of multiple personnel,
training new employees in protocol, banding, and data entry, organizing a large data set,
communicating with the project leader on status reports, being the primary bander responsible for
meeting the project goals and obtaining all necessary blood samples, and pre- and post-season
inventory and data summation.
 Additional general duties associated with maintaining a remote field camp with limited staff also
performed. Duties were performed seven days a week, for approximately ten hours per day.

Passerine Banding Assistant

Avian Research and Education Institute Fall 2010, 2011, 2012 and Spring 2011, 2013
Supervisor: David Russell

 Located within Hueston Woods State Park, Oxford, Ohio. Near the main campus of Miami
University.
 Banding station operated under the guidance of a certified Master Bander, under which personal
training in safe methods of removal, ageing and sexing of eastern passerines, and basic
maintenance of a field station occurred.
 Duties included removing all songbirds from mist-nets, maintaining mist-nets, erecting and
dismantling mist-nets, and data recording.
 Banding occurred two days per week, beginning before sunrise and ending variably in the
afternoon.

Undergraduate Independent Research Project Student

Miami University August 2011 – December 2011
Supervisor: David Russell

 Assisted project developing a photographic identification manual for banding Midwestern

passerine species, focused on southwestern Ohio.
 Duties included removing all songbirds from mist-nets, maintaining mist-nets, erecting and
dismantling mist nets, interfacing with the public, and data recording. Also positioned focal
individuals for ideal photographic positions while maintaining safe holds.
 Banding and/or data organization occurred two days per week, four hours per day.

Avian Research Assistant

Private Contract Ornithologist May 2010 – August 2010
Supervisor: Victor Fazio

 Assisted project studying the reproductive success of endangered Black-capped Vireos on Fort
Sill, Oklahoma.
  Duties included monitoring specific sample of ~ 28 territories, nest searching, checking for
Brown-headed Cowbird parasitism, surveying and mapping new territories throughout fort,
limited target mist-netting, note-taking, and data entry.
 Worked in field eight of every ten days, typically eight hours per day. Received monetary bonus
for excellent work.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Wilkinson, B.P., A.M. Haynes-Sutton, L. Meggs, & P.G.R. Jodice. (2020). High spatial fidelity among
foraging trips of Masked Boobies from Pedro Cays, Jamaica. PLoS ONE, 15(4): e0231654

Wilkinson, B.P., Y.G. Satgé, J.S. Lamb, & P.G.R. Jodice. (2019). Tropical cyclones alter short-term
activity patterns of a coastal seabird. Movement Ecology, 7:30.

Wilkinson, B.P., M.E. Johns, & P. Warzybok. (2019). Fluorescent ornamentation in the Rhinoceros
Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata. Ibis, 161, 694-698.

Wilkinson, B.P., J. Jahncke, P. Warzybok, R.W. Bradley, & S.A. Shaffer. (2018). Variable utilization of
shelf break-associated habitats by chick-brooding rhinoceros auklets in the California Current
System. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 590, 211-226.

Reports and Data Releases

Jodice, P.G.R. & B.P. Wilkinson. (2020). At-sea movements of Masked Boobies from Pedro Cays,
Jamaica, 2012. U.S. Geological Survey data release, DOI: 10.5066/P9AK95EG.

Wilkinson, B.P., Y.G. Satgé, J.S. Lamb, & P.G.R. Jodice. (2019). GPS tracking of brown pelicans in the
South Atlantic Bight during cyclonic activity (2017-2018). U.S. Geological Survey data release,
DOI: 10.5066/P9D5IP0G.

Grants and Fellowships

Columbus Hammond Townsend Fellowship

- $5,000 awarded Fall 2020

National Geographic Society Conservation Trust

- $4,900 awarded Summer 2016

California State University- Council on Ocean Affairs, Science, and Technology (COAST)
- $3,000 awarded Spring 2016

Myers Oceanographic & Marine Biology Trust

- $1,000 awarded Spring 2016

Arthur & Karin Nelson Scholarship, Glen & Martha Vargas Scholarship
- $1,000 awarded Winter 2016

Contributed Presentations

Wilkinson, B.P., Y.G. Satgé, J.S. Lamb, & P.G.R. Jodice (2020) Low use of Cay Sal Bank to transiting
brown pelicans despite apparent availability. Poster, Pacific Seabird Group 47 th Annual Meeting,
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Wilkinson, B.P. & P.G.R. Jodice (2019) Expansion of brown pelican diet associated with shrimp
trawling effort in South Carolina. Oral presentation, 43 rd Annual Meeting of the Waterbird
Society, Salisbury, Maryland, U.S.A.

Wilkinson, B.P., P. Michael, Y.G. Satgé, & P.G.R. Jodice (2019) Spatially consistent foraging patterns in
Masked Boobies (Sula dactylatra) in Jamaica. BirdsCaribbean 22nd International Conference, Le
Gosier, Guadeloupe.

Wilkinson, B.P., Y.G. Satgé, J.S. Lamb, & P.G.R. Jodice (2018) Behavioral responses of Eastern brown
pelicans to the passage of Hurricane Irma along the Atlantic coast. Oral presentation, Pacific
Seabird Group 45th Annual Meeting, La Paz, Mexico.

Wilkinson, B.P., J. Jahncke, P. Warzybok, R. Bradley, & S.A. Shaffer (2017) Foraging rhinoceros
auklets in the Farallon Escarpment: A spatial analysis via GPS tracking technology. Oral
presentation, Pacific Seabird Group 44th Annual Meeting, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A.

Wilkinson, B.P., J. Jahncke, P. Warzybok, R. Bradley, & S.A. Shaffer (2016) Spatial analysis of chick-
brooding rhinoceros auklets breeding within the central California Current System. Poster,
Beyond the Golden Gate Research Symposium, Tiburon, California, U.S.A.

Invited Seminars

Wilkinson, B.P. (2019) Importance of coastal refugia to brown pelicans during tropical cyclones.
Clemson University Natural Resources Seminar Series, Clemson, SC.

Wilkinson, B.P., Y.G. Satgé, J.S. Lamb, & P.G.R. Jodice (2019) Spatial ecology of brown pelicans in the
South Atlantic Bight: Preliminary results from two years of tracking. SCDNR Shorebird
Workshop, Charleston, SC.

Wilkinson, B.P. & P.G.R. Jodice (2018) Spatial analytics of contrasting seabird species across multiple
temporal scales: Different drivers of animal movement. Wake Forest University Biology Seminar
Series, Winston-Salem, NC.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2017
Biology 55/155 Teaching Assistant – Biostatistics & Hypothesis Testing
Fall 2016
Biology 30 Teaching Assistant – Principles of Biology
Spring 2016
Biology 1A Teaching Assistant – Foundations of Biodiversity
Fall 2015
Biology 1A Teaching Assistant – Foundations of Biodiversity

Awards and Honors

Douglas R. Phillips Award for Graduate Student Excellence, Clemson University, 2020

Young Explorer, National Geographic Society, 2016.

Service

Social Media Liaison, Pacific Seabird Group 47th Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Session Chair, General Ecology and Evolution, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Waterbird Society, Salisbury,
Maryland, U.S.A. 2019.

President, Clemson University Natural Resources Graduate Student Association, 2018-2019.

Invited Reviewer: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Global Ecology and Conservation, Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology

Popular Press

“What do birds do in a hurricane?”. Hakai Magazine. J. Howard. 2020.

“Bird Key Stono”. Kiawah Island Legends Magazine, H. Wist. 2020.

“Island science: Special ecosystems lure researchers.”. Coastal Heritage Magazine, S.C. Sea Grant
Consortium. J. Holleman. 2019.

“Birds and marine life in SC have their own ways of coping with hurricanes.”. Charleston Post and
Courier. C. Johnson. 2019.

“Movement patterns of brown pelicans in the South Atlantic Bight.”. Outdoor News Bulletin, Wildlife
Management Institute. P. Jodice. 2019.

“Tracking device lost on Hilton Head takes 1,100-mile road trip – without its pelican.”. The Island
Packet. L. Wilson. 2018.

Public Outreach

“Glowing horns in a secretive seabird: Rhinoceros auklets found to have fluorescent bill structures during
breeding season”. Blog post, British Ornithologists’ Union Blog. June 2019.

“Flight of the pelican: Using satellite tracking technology to follow brown pelicans in the South Atlantic
Bight”. Oral presentation, Harbor Island Homeowners Association, Harbor Island, SC. February 2019.