Introduction
Alexander L. Bond is a Canadian conservation biologist, ecologist, and curator. He is a senior curator at the Natural History Museum at Tring and a researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
Education
Bond completed a B.Sc. with honors in biology from Mount Allison University in 2005. He earned a M.Sc. from University of New Brunswick. In 2011, Bond completed a Ph.D. at Memorial University of Newfoundland. For his graduate degrees, he researched avian conservation and ecology. He was a NSERC post-doctoral fellow at University of Saskatchewan from 2011 to 2013.
Career
Bond is a conservation biologist with a focus on the marine environment and island biology. He was a NSERC visiting fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada from 2013 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017, he was a senior conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at the Centre for Conservation Science. Bond was an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability from 2014 to 2019. He is an honorary researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Bond is a senior curator of birds in the department of life sciences at the Natural History Museum at Tring.
Since 2012, Bond is a subject editor of Avian Conservation and Ecology.
Bond specializes in conservation, contaminates, and stable isotopes. Particular interests include seabirds, marine debris, invasive species, and globally threatened or extinct species. I make use of a variety of field-, lab-, and collections-based techniques, including stable isotopes, ICP-MS, demographic modelling, and analysis of population trends.
Personal life
Due to being gay, Bond and his partner decided to not pursue graduate school or positions located in the United States, opting instead for Canada or the United Kingdom.