The Best of Spectacular Newfoundland Coast to Coast

Bill Montevecchi is a professor of psychology, biology and ocean sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research is focused on marine birds, ocean ecology and conservation biology. Bill is the co-author of “Newfoundland Birds: Exploitation, Study and Conservation," and created "Seabirds – Oceanic Barometers" for the Ideas Series on the CBC Radio network. Bill lectures nationally and internationally about avian ecology and conservation.

Carolyn Parsons-Janes is a native Newfoundland and Labradorian; she was born on the West Coast of the island, grew up in Labrador, spent a few years in Marystown, and has called the East Coast home for the past forty years. She has hiked many of the island's well-known trails, such as Gros Morne, Green Gardens, the Tablelands, the Skerwink Trail, and the East Coast Trail. Since retiring from a career in food inspection, Carolyn enjoys photographing landscapes and singing at retirement homes.

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Sydney Collins is a Ph.D. candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Sydney has been studying seabirds for nearly a decade. She began her work with puffins, kittikwakes, and gulls in southern Alaska, before moving to Newfoundland for her graduate studies in 2019. Sydney’s current research investigates behavior, reproductive success, and risk exposure of Newfoundland’s smallest seabird, the Leach’s Storm-Petrel. Sydney spends her summers with her storm-petrels on Gull Island in Witless Bay, and with the gannets at Cape St. Mary’s.