Louise K. Blight

LOUISE K. BLIGHT is a conservation biologist and writer specialising in seabird ecology. She holds a PhD in Zoology and is an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. She has published widely on marine and avian ecology, including the academic book Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation, and served as Managing Editor of the Marine Ornithology journal from 2016 to 2023. Over the course of her career, she has made more than fifty trips to Antarctica.

Alongside her academic work, Blight helps assess threatened bird species in Canada, serving as co-chair of the Birds Specialist Sub-committee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territory on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with her partner Iain, their poodle Poppy, and an indoor cat, Buster Kitten. She is profoundly grateful to the birds, lands and waters that have shaped her work and continue to teach her.