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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

Domain

Research

Unit

Bird Migration

Networks

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

Projects

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
2023-present	Postdoctoral Researcher - SNF Postdoc.Mobility Return Swiss Ornithological Institute
2021-2023	Postdoctoral Fellow - SNF Postdoc.Mobility Cornell Lab of Ornithology
2020-2021	Postdoctoral Researcher Swiss Ornithological Institute
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

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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FURTHER PUBLICATIONS

Full publication list (scholar.google.com)

CO-OPERATIONS

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

Bird Migration link

Research

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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Locations

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Swiss Ornithological Institute
Luzernerstrasse 6
6204 Sempach

Office building
Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach

Contact

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Swiss Ornithological Institute
Seerose 1
6204 Sempach

+41 41 462 97 00

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