Annual reports from the Chair

We annually report about the activities carried as part of the research programs of the Rudi Drent Chair in Global Flyway Ecology.

This chair is held by Theunis Piersma, professor in Global Flyway Ecology at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UG) and Senior Research Scientist at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Department of Coastal Systems.

The Global Flyway Ecology chair was established at the University of Groningen in May 2012 in a covenant of the university with BirdLife Netherlands (VBN) and World Wildlife Fund Netherlands (WNF). In 2018, at the initiative of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the chair became the named Rudi Drent Chair in Global Flyway Ecology. Starting from 2019, the Triodos Foundation also supports the Rudi Drent Chair in Global Flyway Ecology, together with WNF and VBN. Additionally, the Chair has continued the coordinated research and outreach activities around the globe under the international umbrella of the Global Flyway Network (GFN). GFN is an independent foundation by Dutch law, being funded separately from the Chair to carry out specific activities.

In August 2020 the next report will be published for July 2019- July 2020: check back

Archive of annual reports:

Report of the Chair in Global Flyway Ecology (July 2018 – July 2019) at the University of Groningen. Download here.

Report of the Chair in Global Flyway Ecology (July 2017 – July 2018) at the University of Groningen. Download here.

Report of the Chair in Global Flyway Ecology (July 2016 – July 2017) at the University of Groningen. Download here.

Report of the Chair in Global Flyway Ecology (July 2015 – July 2016) at the University of Groningen. Download here.