Agata Staniewicz

Agata Staniewicz

Research scientist

Bat Conservation Trust

About me

I’m a zoologist specialising in bioacoustics, behavioural ecology and conservation. I’ve worked on different animal taxa, including bats, birds, crocodilians and primates in a variety of locations such as forests, wetlands and deserts. My main research interests focus on animal communication, species and biodiversity monitoring, interspecific competition, niche partitioning, and conservation of both disturbed and undisturbed habitats.

Interests
  • bioacoustics
  • species monitoring
  • behavioural ecology
  • conservation
  • human-wildlife conflict
  • herpetology
  • ornithology
Education
  • PhD in Biological Sciences, 2020

    University of Bristol

  • MSc by Research in Biological Sciences, 2013

    University of Bristol

  • BSc in Zoology, 2009

    University of Bristol

Research experience

 
 
 
 
 
Bat Conservation Trust
Research scientist - ecoacoustics
February 2024 – Present London, UK
Leading the research into innovative new bat population monitoring techniques using passive acoustic monitoring and AI.
 
 
 
 
 
Adam Mickiewicz University
Postdoctoral researcher
February 2021 – February 2024 Poznań, Poland
Investigated interspecific competition in bird communities in boreal, temperate and tropical forests using passive acoustic monitoring and playback experiments.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Bristol
PhD researcher
September 2015 – January 2020 Bristol, UK
Established species-specific vocal repertoires and tested acoustic monitoring methods for crocodile populations in Southeast Asia and West Africa.
 
 
 
 
 
ZSL Tsaobis Baboon Project
Field assistant
April 2014 – November 2014 Tsaobis, Namibia
Collected behavioural data and perfromed playback experiments on wild chacma baboons as part of a long-term project.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Bristol
MSc researcher
October 2010 – June 2013 Bristol, UK
Investigated ecological niche partitioning between sympatric crocodilians in a threatened wetland in East Kalimantan.

Projects

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Bird communication
Interspecific competition for acoustic space in birds
Bird communication
Crocodile communication
Acoustic communication in rare and threatened crocodilians and its use for population monitoring
Crocodile communication
Mesangat Lake
Ecology and conservation of juvenile crocodilians Tomistoma schlegelii and Crocodylus siamensis in Mesangat Lake, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Mesangat Lake
European Croc Networking Meeting
I’m a co-founder of the annual conference for people working on crocodilians and based in Europe
European Croc Networking Meeting

Recent Publications

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In the media

Fieldwork photos

Contact

  • agata.staniewicz[at]gmail.com