The Gyre Project
Plastic Pellet Experiment
Students attending Seabird Camp set-up a plastic pellet experiment. Trevor Haynes explains more… University of Alaska Scientist Veronica Padula had a challenge for the seabird camp students [...]
Day 3 of Seabird Camp
Here is a blog entry written by our student intern, Diamond, about her trip to the cliffs with Refuge biologists and the third day of Seabird Camp. [...]
4th July on St. Paul!
Wow, what a 4th of July! (Or June-July as they say here.) We started with a (rather wet) parade, and continued with games on the ball-field. Both [...]
PARTY PREPARATIONS
The Camp Team has been busy making super cool seabird masks for the 4th July parade! I wouldn't want to mess with these puffins!
KIDS DON’T FLOAT
Ram and Trevor have made safely to St. Paul, and everyone is busy preparing for Seabird Camp. On their first day, they attended a "Kids Don't Float" [...]
How many birds?
It’s a POPULATION COUNT YEAR on the Pribilof Islands. What is a “Population Count Year”? The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR) counts the number of seabirds [...]
Marine Debris
“Ophelia” octopus created out of marine debris by Kodiak High School students. One of the main focuses for the 2014 summer Seabird Camp on St. Paul Island is [...]
Don’t Throw it!
“Stow it-don’t throw it” is a youth debris and ocean conservation program dedicated to protect marine environments. As part of this cool project, youth make recycling bins [...]
Pribilof Debris
Is there marine debris on the Pribilof Islands? [separator type='transparent' color='' thickness='1' up='' down=''] YES! The main risks of marine debris on the Pribilof Islands are the [...]
FOOD STRESS
We took blood samples from least auklets caught during Seabird Summer Camp last year. These blood samples were spun (using a centrifuge) to separate the plasma from [...]
DIET DATA
The Least Auklet diet sample analysis has been completed by Chris Stark, and we now have the results in the form of data. WHAT DO THE DATA [...]
DIET ANALYSIS
Remember? …. We collected Least Auklet chick diet samples http://www.seabirdyouth.org/what-do-auklets-eat/ for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife. http://www.fws.gov/alaska/nwr/akmar/ during last summer’s Seabird Camps. QUICK RECAP: Why did we [...]
Symposium Day 4
By Destiny Kushin and Carley Bourdukofsky We spent the morning visiting Veronica Padula and Doug Causey in their lab at the University of Alaska (UAA). At the lab, [...]
Symposium Day 3
We spent the morning at the Anchorage museum imaginarium. Our favorite things were the bubble-makers and learning how hot air balloons work. After lunch we went back [...]
Symposium Day 2
By Carley Bourdukofsky On January 21, 2014, we went to the Campbell Creek Science Center and learned about moose, foxes, chickadees, owls, beavers, etc. After learning about [...]
Symposium Day 1
By Carmen PhilemonoffThe first thing we did Monday morning was get up at 7:00 a.m and eat breakfast. After we ate breakfast Ann Harding met us in [...]
Alaska Marine Science Symposium
After two cancelled plane trips due to bad weather, Tonia Kushin and the four students (Sonia Merculief, Carley Bourdukofsky, Destiny Kushin, and Carmen Philemonoff) made it off [...]
St. Paul Students
Four students were chosen to present their poster at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in January. Each student was asked what they would share about their home [...]
Four Students
Four students from the Pribilof Islands will be traveling to Anchorage in January to present a poster on the Seabird Youth Network at the Alaska Marine Science [...]
Bering Sea Days
Bering Sea Days is an annual program developed by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government and the school at St. Paul. The week is [...]
Distance Dissection
Veronica Padula is a graduate student at UAA (University of Alaska, Anchorage), studying how plastic pollution affects seabirds in Alaska. Veronica has SKYPED with Pribilof students a couple times [...]
Conference competition
The Alaska Marine Science Symposium is taking place in Anchorage, in January 2013. We have funding from the North Pacific Research Board for four students to attend [...]
Abstracts
A scientific abstract summarizes research papers in a way that helps other researchers decide whether the study would be interesting or helpful to their own work. Abstracts [...]
MELTDOWN
The Alaska Sealife Center has a new virtual field trip to learn about sea ice the Bering Sea. Check it out.
Day Four
St. Paul: The group started the day by studying Tonia’s insect collection, then Ram gave a slideshow on currently blooming wildflowers. Students worked on plant ID worksheets [...]
Day Five
Last Day of Camp. THANK YOU everyone who has made this week happen. It's been an amazing team effort and alot of fun. St. Paul- Today we finished [...]
Day Three
St. George- Today we have been busy bees working on our movie (the very little kids had the day off camp). We edited and recorded this morning to [...]
Day Two
Camp at St. Paul started with a warm-up game of Kittiwake-Sandlance that showed how hard it is for seabirds to find enough food to feed their chicks.The [...]
St George camp
Photos from our first couple of days at St George Seabird Camp 2013! Many thanks to Shinya Hosokawa for his beautiful photos.
Day One
Today marked the first day of the Seabird Youth Network Seabird Camp on St. Paul Island. Students arrived...(over 30 of them!)Began the day at the Civic Center with [...]
Camp preparation
Seabird Camp starts tomorrow on both St. Paul and St. George Island! Weather has been super foggy on St. George this summer… only 2 flights have made [...]
What do Auklets eat?
Students at the Pribilof Island Seabird Camps will be helping researchers catch Least Auklets to collect food samples this summer. Least auklets eat zooplankton (small animals that [...]
Seabird Real Estate
Most folk are familiar with backyard nest boxes for land birds, such as chickadees and swallows, but few are aware that nest boxes for seabirds also exist. [...]
Cliff Safety
The countdown for summer camps begins... What should I think about when I am on the cliffs? 1) Keep back from cliff edges - a slip or [...]
Seabird Documentary
St. Paul Students Create Seabird Documentary. Alaska Daily News: Spirit of Youth Alaska Public Media, June 2013
Seabird Summer Camps
We're gearing up for the Seabird Summer Camps on both St. George and St. Paul Island. And, we're excited that high school students from Homer and Cordova [...]
The Movie
6th-7th grade students on St. Paul spent the last school year learning about seabirds. As a grand finale in May, they worked with the Alaska Teen Media Institute [...]
Safety Practices
Tonia Kushin and students learn safety practices for hunting seabirds for subsistence use from Paul Meolovidov (Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Ecosystem Conservation Office).
Paul Melovidov
Paul Melovidov, with the Tribal Government of St. Paul, visits the 6th and 7th grade class to teach them about the cultural use of seabirds and ways to [...]
Tonia Kushin
Teacher, Tonia Kushin, learns hunter safety tips during a seabird cultural use lesson by members of the Aleut Community of St. Paul, Tribal Government.
Edible Nests!
6th and 7th Grade students at St. Paul make edible seabird nests...
Preston Zacharof
Preston mimics fox predation!
Snowy Field Outing
St. Paul students visit the cliffs during a snowy day in May, during the Alaska Teen Media training days. Students took video footage of the seabirds to include in [...]
Chicken
Students on St. Paul play "Chicken" in the Bering Sea during one of the last days of the school year.
Ann Harding and Baby Leif
Ann Harding and Leif during the St. Paul Alaska Teen Media training days
Jake
Summer starts on St. Paul! Beach time during the last week of school
Learning IMovie
6th and 7th grade students on St. Paul learn iMovie during the Alaska Teen Media training days.
School Mascot
The school mascot at St. Paul is the Puffin!