Goodbye to St. Paul

After the thick fog of the last couple of days, we anxiously peeked out of the windows this morning… and the skies were clearer. Natalia went to [...]

By |2017-07-26T18:43:48+00:00July 26, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Goodbye to St. Paul

Grand Finale

Saturday was foggy. St. Paul Tribal Government generously took the St. George kids back on the Lunax because the forecast for flying to St. George tomorrow was [...]

By |2017-07-26T18:39:55+00:00July 26, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Grand Finale

Seabird Camp 2017 Day 4

Our Commander Island friends had a fun morning with Sasha and Artem playing basketball in the beautiful school gym. Another incredible turn-out for camp, with 55 kids [...]

By |2017-07-21T20:03:32+00:00July 21, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp 2017 Day 4

Seabird Camp 2017 Day 3

Another full day, with around 50 kids! Our Commander Island friends started off the day by teaching campers the Russian words for “puffin” “kittiwake”… and “car”. We [...]

By |2017-07-21T18:45:56+00:00July 20, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp 2017 Day 3

Seabird Camp 2017 Day 2

It was a wild Tuesday on the water at Seabird Youth Network's Seabird Camp today. Just over 20 middle schoolers, high schoolers, SYN camp instructors, and adult [...]

By |2017-07-20T17:58:33+00:00July 20, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp 2017 Day 2

Fantastic creations

Ram Papish and kids have been busy experimenting with new materials to make realistic teeth, whiskers and other details for this year's masks. We will have plenty [...]

By |2017-07-17T18:14:38+00:00July 17, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Fantastic creations

Seabird Camp starts tomorrow!

Seabird Camp starts tomorrow.... Putting on the camp requires a huge team effort, and would not be possible without the support of our many partners (see below). [...]

By |2017-07-16T19:26:25+00:00July 16, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp starts tomorrow!

Least Auklet capture

Seabird Camp interns joined the USFWS crew to collect least auklet diet samples.  Here's the report from Destiny (age 13yrs): Today on Friday 14, 2017 Seabird interns, [...]

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Population Counts

Thursday (July 13th) was spent learning about seabird population counts being conducted on St. Paul Island. Student intern, Destiny, and Ms. Kushin accompanied USFWS biologists Ryan Mong [...]

By |2017-07-16T01:43:26+00:00July 16, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Population Counts

Seabird Camp interns

The week before Seabird Camp 2017 has begun in full force! On Tuesday July 11th, our student interns, Destiny Kushin and Maurice Lekanof along with Mrs. Kushin [...]

By |2017-07-13T21:17:28+00:00July 13, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp interns

Art preparations

Seabird Camp is next week, and the team on St. Paul are busy with preparations. Here's their first report: Today (Wednesday July 12) our student interns and several other [...]

By |2017-07-13T20:59:17+00:00July 13, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Art preparations

Welcome!

A huge welcome to Natalia, Aleksandr, Polina, and Artym from the Commander Islands! They've made it to Alaska! Even though the Commander Islands in Russian are only [...]

By |2017-07-13T20:49:40+00:00July 13, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps, Commander Islands|Comments Off on Welcome!
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