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Team - Bird Migration employee

Raphaël NussbaumerDr.

Contact

+41 41 462 97 00
raphael.nussbaumer@vogelwarte.ch

Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach
Switzerland

Functions

Bird Migration employee

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Research

Unit

Bird Migration

Networks

→ ORCID
→ GitHub
→ X
→ ResearchGate
→ Google Scholar
→ Bird Migration Map
→ GeoPressureR

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Bird Migration

Large-scale monitoring of animal movements aloft

Bird Migration

Radar technology

Details

EXPERTISE

bird migration
weather radar (aeroecology)
flow modell
pressure geolocator
citizen science (eBird, ABAP)
Intra-african migration
geostatistics

CV

Education
2024-present	Research Associate - Swiss Ornithological Institute
2023-2024	Postdoctoral Researcher - SNF Postdoc.Mobility Return Swiss Ornithological Institute
2021-2023	Postdoctoral Fellow - SNF Postdoc.Mobility Cornell Lab of Ornithology
2020-2020	Research Associate A Rocha Kenya
2019-2020	Postdoctoral Researcher Swiss Ornithological Institute
2014-2018	PhD Candidate Environmental Science, Université de Lausanne, CH
2013-2014	MSc in Hydrology and Water Resource Management, Imperial College London, UK
2010-2013	BSc in Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

PUBLICATIONS

Publications while working at the Swiss Ornithological Institute

Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground

Nussbaumer, Raphaël; van Doren, Benjamin M.; Hochachka, Wesley M.; Farnsworth, Andrew; La Sorte, Frank A.; Johnston, Alison; Dokter, Adriaan M. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07107

Barometric geolocators can reveal unprecedented details about the migratory ecology of small birds

Rhyne, Garrett S.; Stouffer, Philip C.; Briedis, Martins; Nussbaumer, Raphaël (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukae010

Multi-sensor geolocators unveil global and local movements in an Alpine-breeding long-distance migrant

Rime, Yann; Nussbaumer, Raphaël; Briedis, Martins; Sander, Martha Maria; Chamberlain, Dan; Amrhein, Valentin; Helm, Barbara; Liechti, Felix; Meier, Christoph M. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00381-6

Reconstructing bird trajectories from pressure and wind data using a highly optimized hidden Markov model

Nussbaumer, Raphaël; Gravey, Mathieu; Briedis, Martins; Liechti, Felix; Sheldon, Daniel (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14082

Global positioning with animal‐borne pressure sensors

Nussbaumer, Raphaël; Gravey, Mathieu; Briedis, Martins; Liechti, Felix (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14043

Meteorological data policies needed to support biodiversity monitoring with weather radar

Shamoun-Baranes, Judy; Bauer, Silke; Chapman, Jason W.; Desmet, Peter; Dokter, Adriaan M.; Farnsworth, Andrew; van Gasteren, Hans; Haest, Birgen; Koistinen, Jarmo; Kranstauber, Bart; Liechti, Felix... (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0196.1

A gaussian mixture model to separate birds and insects in single-polarization weather radar data

Nussbaumer, Raphaël; Schmid, Baptiste; Bauer, Silke; Liechti, Felix (2021)
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101989

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Quantifying year-round nocturnal bird migration with a fluid dynamics model

Nussbaumer, Raphaël; Bauer, Silke; Benoit, Lionel; Mariethoz, Grégoire; Liechti, Felix; Schmid, Baptiste (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0194

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Weather radars' role in biodiversity monitoring

Shamoun-Baranes, Judy; Bauer, Silke; Chapman, Jason W.; Desmet, Peter; Dokter, Adriaan M.; Farnsworth, Andrew; Haest, Birgen; Koistinen, Jarmo; Kranstauber, Bart; Liechti, Felix; Mason, Tom H.E.; N... (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi4680

A geostatistical approach to estimate high resolution nocturnal bird migration densities from a weather radar network

Nussbaumer, Raphaël; Benoit, Lionel; Mariethoz, Grégoire; Liechti, Felix; Bauer, Silke; Schmid, Baptiste (2019)
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192233

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→ Birdcast
→ A Rocha Kenya
→ Tropical Bird Association
→ Kenya Bird Map
→ Mathieu Gravey

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Bird Migration

We research migratory birds from their breeding grounds to Africa and lay the foundations for their protection beyond national borders.

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