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To celebrate World Otter Day we will be joined by Dr Liz Chadwick, Dr Eleanor Kean, Emily O’Rourke and Sarah du Plessis from the Cardiff University Otter Project to summarise and highlight some of the work the Otter Project does. Eleanor Kean will summarise the findings of the recent Wales Otter Survey, followed by Liz Chadwick describing how the Otter Project functions, and why it is so important to report otters found dead. Emily and Sarah will then give outlines of their research projects.
The Cardiff University Otter Project is a long-term environmental monitoring scheme, using otters found dead to investigate population biology, genetics, environmental contaminants, parasites and diseases in otters. Running since 1992, we now have a database and archive of over 4000 otters from all across the UK. Dr Liz Chadwick has been the lead investigator of the Otter Project since 2004, studying a huge breadth of otter and aquatic systems biology. Both Emily O’Rourke and Sarah du Plessis have been PhD students with the project since 2019. In her research Emily uses the otter as an indicator species of chemical contamination levels of our waterways, studying chemicals such as PFASs and PCBs. Sarah uses genomics to study stronghold populations in the UK and across Eurasia. Dr Eleanor Kean is an ecology and engagement consultant, completing her PhD on the chemical ecology of otter communication with the Otter Project in 2012, and most recently authoring the Otter Survey of Wales.
