Yvonne Ingje Verkuil

1987

Bsc in Biology, University of Utrecht

1993

Msc in Biology, University of Utrecht

2004-2009

PhD position, University of Groningen

2004

Animal experimentation certificate, University of Groningen : permit to carry out animal experiments under the Dutch Law.

2004

PhD research at the Animal Ecology Group (CEES), University of Groningen on population structure in Ruffs. Supervised by Theunis Piersma and Allan Baker

2003

Research project as guest of the Animal Ecology Group (CEES), University of Groningen on habitat choice of migrating Ruffs in Southwest Fryslân in spring. With Petra de Goeij

1994

Research assistance project at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on the Red Knot database of the Wash Wader Ringing Group (UK). Supervised by Theunis Piersma

1993

Research project at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on the stopover ecology of Broad-billed Sandpipers in the Sivash ( Black Sea , Ukraine ). In co-operation with the Working Group of International Wader and Waterbird Research (WIWO) and the Black Sea-Azov Sea Ornithological Station in Melitopol (Ukraine).

1993

Research assistance project at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on diet analysis of Red Knots during northward migration in Argentina . Supervised by Patricia González

1992

MSc project (3) at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on the stopover ecology of waders in the Sivash ( Black Sea , Ukraine ). Supervised by Theunis Piersma and Tom van der Have (WIWO)

1991

MSc project (2) at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología of the Universidad Nacionál Autonoma de México (UNAM, Mexico) and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (Yerseke, the Netherlands ) on the colonisation processes in the ecotone of coral reefs and seagrass beds. Supervised by B.I. van Tussenbroek

1990

MSc project (1) at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on the feeding ecology and resource exploitation of two long-distance migrating subspecies in Red Knots Calidris canutus islandica and Calidris canutus canutus. Supervised by Theunis Piersma

2005

Visits to the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology (CBCB) at the Royal OntarioMuseum ( Canada ). With Allan J. Baker and Oliver Haddrath ( http://www.rom.on.ca/biodiversity/cbcb/ )

2003

Visit to the University van Cádiz ( Spain ) to work on the functional response of small waders feeding on brine shrimps. With José Antonio Masero

2004

NWO travel grant to visit the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal OntarioMuseum (€ 2.760).

2004

GUF-Gratama Foundation research grant to finance radio tracking study on home range and stopover timing in Ruffs staging in southwest Fryslân (with Christiaan Both en Jos Hooijmeijer) (€ 23.500).

2003

Schure-Beijerinck-Popping Foundation grant to finance research on habitat choice in migrating Ruffs (with Petra de Goeij) (€ 2.500).

2003

Travel grant from the Doctor Catharina van Tussenbroek Foundation to visit the University van Cádiz (€ 550).

2004-2005

Supervision of master and bachelor research projects of students from the University of Groningen , Wageningen University and Van Hall Institute.

2004-2005

Animal Ecology course for second-year biology students.

2003

Editor of Ardea: International scientific ornithological journal, published by the Netherlands Ornithological Union (NOU).

1996

Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), Volume 3. Contribution to compilation of species accounts.