Mark Hindell is also the director of the Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit in the School of Zoology at the University of Tasmania in Australia. His primary research interests are in the biology of marine mammals and seabirds, particularly with respect to Antarctic and sub-antarctic ecosystems. This research encompasses a variety of disciplines including energetics and metabolism, population dynamics and socio-ecology. He is currently running several major programs including foraging ecology of Antarctic seals, biology of sub-antarctic seabirds (primarily penguins).