Learning IMovie
6th and 7th grade students on St. Paul learn iMovie during the Alaska Teen Media training days.
St. Paul field trip
Students at St. Paul visit the least auklet colony... 5 mins walk from school! Birds had just returned to the colony after a winter at sea.
Mosaic
Students at St. Paul made this beautiful mosaic with visiting Fairbanks artist, Sarah Tabbert.
Team Jump
6 and 7th grade students from St. Paul Island, Tonia Kushin, Ann Harding, and baby Leif. Photo taken during the May Alaska Teen Media visit. Students spent [...]
Kiana Melovidov
Kiana documenting seabirds on St. Paul Island
Chuchkii return!
Thousands of Least Auklets, also known as Chuchkii, are back on the Pribilof Islands! This photo was taken on St. Paul island on May 5. Check out [...]
Birds are Back!
Seabird colonies all over the Northern Hemisphere are starting to come alive again with the sound of birds, and there are reports of kittiwakes, puffins and auklets [...]
Chico!
Seabird excitement in Chico, California! Ann Harding recently skyped with two 7th grade classes in Chico, sharing stories about the Pribilof Island Seabird Youth Network and seabird [...]
Cream Cheese Penguins!
Make these olive and cream cheese penguins in celebration of World Penguin Day!
Stress
Are seabirds finding enough food to eat? The Seabird Youth Network is collaborating with Dr. Sasha Kitaysky at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, this coming summer, collecting [...]
World Penguin Day!
There really is a World Penguin Day, and it's today! Lots of penguin excitement out there today.. check it out Celebrate World Penguin Day with Pew Bird [...]
Monitoring..why and how?
Marc Romano is a wildlife biologist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Pribilof Islands. Students on the Pribilof Islands spent March learning about the different methods [...]
Marine Indicators
This month, students on the Pribilof Islands are learning about the use of Seabirds as Indicators of the Marine Environment. How can seabirds be good indicators? Studies [...]
Cultural Use of Seabirds
Students at St. Paul design posters about the cultural use of seabirds
Counting at sea
Adrian Gall is a Research Biologist with the consulting firm ABR (Alaska Biological Research). Adrian is an expert in conducting boat-based marine bird and mammal surveys, and [...]
Cultural Lesson Video
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Interview with Shiway Wang
Shiway is an expert in taking a small fat sample from live, wild seabirds and using this fat sample to find out what the bird has been [...]
Tracking Seabirds Using Geolocation
Tracking Seabirds using Geolocation Data loggers; an interview with Rachael Orben, PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz. Seabirds spend the majority of their lives at [...]
Local Lore
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Bird Cams
This month, we're learning about methods used to research seabirds. Video recorders are getting small and light enough to attach to some of the larger seabirds. Bird [...]
Outer space
The first ever penguin census from space has shown there may be twice as many Emperor Penguins living in the Antarctic than previously thoughtThe study, led by British [...]
Flying Fish
Parents of many species of seabird carry back whole prey items to feed their chick at the colony. Researchers can use binoculars, telescopes, or take photos of [...]
GPS loggers
Interview with DR. Rosana Paredes What is your job? Research biologist Why do people use GPS loggers to study seabirds? GPS loggers can tell us about the [...]
Plotting a GPS track
Dr. Rosana Paredes has been using GPS loggers to find out where thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes breeding on the Pribilof Islands travel to at sea. Read [...]