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"I
have been working with the eiders for 35 years, and each year I
learned something new about them. It was such a captivating process
that, at the end, I decided to write a book. A book about the bird
with which people are connected no less than a thousand years. How
this bird, that provides not only the famous down but has many other
surprising qualities, as well as about people on whom their lives
often depend."
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Alexandra Goryashko (born May
1965) is an historian of
science, a biologist, and a writer. She graduated from a biological
school and the Psychology Faculty of the Moscow State University,
with a specialisation in animal psychology. She fell in love with
the eiders in 1980 when she came, for the first time, to the
Kandalaksha Nature Reserve as a young naturalist to help its
researchers in monitoring eider nesting colonies and raising the
eiderlings. In 1983 she defended her diploma work “Adaptation of the
Common eider to anthropogenic disturbance”. Afterwards she
participated annualy in the Reserve's field work, by counting the
nesting eiders.
Alexandra's personal site:
www.alexandra-goryashko.net
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In addition to
eiders, I have been studying
the history of the White and Barents Sea biological stations
for over 15 years. I've authored over
190 publications on
the subject of ecology and nature protection, as well as the history
of science. A participant of Russian and
international conferences on sea biology, ornithology and the
history of science. A winner of several competitions on the history
of nature reserves and of science. A
member of the North Eurasian working group on the geese,
Association "Sea Inheritance: Research and Preserve", and a member
of the Russian Union of Letters.
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