Summer field work on St. Lawrence Island
Gavin Rizzolo (grade 8) is from Fairbanks, Alaska. In the summer of 2023, Gavin joined Alexis Will and Adrian Gall on a trip to Savoonga to study [...]
Alaska Bird Conference
Congratulations to Ashley Kushin (Mat-Su Career and Technical High School) and Bay Rose Kauffman (Wasilla High School) for presenting a poster at the Alaska Bird Conference in Anchorage this [...]
Bering Island Youth Expedition
Many thanks to the Commander Island Biosphere reserve for sharing this report and photos. Buyan Bay Children Expedition The Commander Islands National Park organizes environmental educational [...]
2023 Seabird Report!
It’s Fall, and time for the Alaska Maritime Refuge’s annual Seabird Report! Here it is: the 2023 Seabird Report Card Background Although seabirds spend most [...]
Auklets and a Family Walk
Our interns had the opportunity to participate in two Least Auklet research and monitoring projects throughout the week. […]
Unalaska and Camp Qungaayux̂
The history of how the Seabird Youth Network sponsored the Unalaska student trip starts back before 2017. […]
St. George Art camp continues…
For the final days of St. George Art Camp we finished up many ongoing projects and started a few new ones as well. […]
St. George Art Camp begins!
Art Camp has been at three-ringed circus of crafting so far this week! We have started lots of marine-based art projects. […]
St. George Island Backpacking Adventure Camp!
We started our adventure with a hike up to the lofty heights of High Bluffs. […]
Camp Day 5: Cracking of crafts and eggstra eggsperiments!
We started the day with a roundabout session of microscopic organisms, games and other activities. […]
Seabird Camp Day 4: Special Guest Day
After our warm-up activities of language learning and games, we set for a special field trip to Ridgewall seabird cliffs. […]
Day 3 Eggsperiments…
Eggs ruled the day as we started with Alexis teaching us all about seabird eggs including all the things that make a murre egg special and ideas [...]
Seabird Camp Day 2
Happy July 4th! Seabird Youth Network and Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge brought a float and face painting booth to the community activities for 4th of July. [...]
Seabird Camp Day 1
Introduction to Eggs! A variety of activities awaited students as they arrived for the first day Seabird Camp. […]
Seabird Camp Preparations
Preparations for Seabird Camp 2023 began with visits to field study locations. […]
First Tracks!
In July, our research team (including Orlin and Kristen) worked hard to begin seabird captures to deploy both global location sensor (GLS) and global positioning system (GPS) [...]
Searching for Study Plots
This past weekend was the project’s first trip to St. Paul Island to assess areas for capturing Black-legged Kittiwake and Thick-billed Murre to deploy geolocator tags later [...]
New Seabird Research on St. Paul Island
Black legged Kittiwake and chick. Photo by Chauncey Many people have noticed changes in the Bering Sea in recent years. We’ve seen increased water and air temperatures, [...]
Videos between Islands
We were thrilled to receive this postcard video from students on the Commander Islands earlier this year. And, we've just put together this video from St. George [...]
2022 Seabird Report Card
It’s Fall, and time for the Alaska Maritime Refuge’s annual Seabird Report! Here it is: the 2022 Seabird Report Card. Background Although seabirds spend most [...]
Camp Aglakh 2022
Camp Aglakh is an annual summer camp held on the Commander Islands, where students backpack across Bering Island while learning about the rich local biology and history. [...]
Introducing the Grub Hub!
Many seabirds that breed on both the Commander and Pribilof Islands lay their egg in either a crevice or burrow. These species include the puffins and auklets. [...]
Letters, summer, and ice-cream!
Eighth-grade students (ages 13-14yrs) from St. Paul Island have just sent another round of pen pal letters to their friends on the Commander Islands in Russia. It [...]
2021 Seabird Report Card
It’s Fall, and time for the Alaska Maritime Refuge’s annual Seabird Report! […]
Sea Duck presentation
Brian Uher-Koch is a wildlife biologist with the USGS Alaska Science Center in Anchorage, and his research concentrates largely on Arctic breeding waterbirds. […]