Wanless was born in Scarborough,England and moved to Aberdeen,Scotland in 1969 for her undergraduate degree and then her PhD at the University of Aberdeen,which focused on northern gannets over three seasons on the island of Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde.[1]
In the 1980s,Wanless began one of the first radio-tracking studies into seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere,which helped to identify the foraging areas and the dangers that seabirds face due to climate change,[5] pollution,fishing and off-shore wind farms;[6] much of this research was conducted on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. She was the first female visiting scientist to the British Antarctic Survey's research station on Bird Island in South Georgia,[1] where she studied the diving behaviour of South Georgia shags for two southern summers.[3] Wanless also studied gannets on Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire[7] and researched the foraging of puffins outside of the breeding season.[8]
Over her career,Wanless has published over 250 papers,[9] her bird tracking data was contributed to the Global Seabird Tracking Database.[10]
Received an honorary Professorship in the Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Glasgow and an honorary Professorship in the Department of Zoology at the University of Aberdeen[9]
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