Senior Curator
Phone: +46 8 519 540 67
E-mail: markus.ahola@nrm.se
Lead population monitoring of the three Swedish seal species, ringed seals, harbour seals and grey seals together with Anja Carlsson. Conducts annual population surveys and provides expert advice on questions that pertain to seals in Swedish waters.
Ecology of seals, population dynamics and monitoring. Research interests also include movement ecology, interspecific and trophic interactions, density-dependence and climate change.
Swedish delegate in HELCOM EG MAMA, OSPAR MMEG and ICES WGMME.
MSc in Ecology, University of Turku, Finland, 2003.
PhD in Ecology, University of Turku, Finland, 2009.