Start of Bering Sea Days

Bering Sea Days has started on St. Paul Island. Bering Sea Days is a weeklong program hosted by the Ecosystem Conservation Office, Aleut Community of St. Paul [...]

By |2015-10-08T19:13:26+00:00October 8, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Start of Bering Sea Days

Black-legged kittiwake video

There are two species of kittiwake, and both breed on the Pribilof Islands. Learn more about the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) with this short video put together during [...]

By |2015-09-23T16:23:32+00:00September 23, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps, Education|Comments Off on Black-legged kittiwake video

Crested Auklet video

We’re continuing to learn about the amazing seabirds that breed on the Pribilof Islands. After a great field trip to the cliffs, kids attending Seabird Camp split [...]

By |2015-09-21T15:28:47+00:00September 21, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps, Education|Comments Off on Crested Auklet video

Aglakh

The kids on the Commander Islands have just returned from their summer camp.  We're really excited to hear about the camp activities, it sounds like it was [...]

By |2015-11-04T20:51:50+00:00August 10, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Aglakh

Checking nest-boxes

Seabird activities continue on St. George.  Abram gave a talk about the red-legged kittiwake project, that included using Google Earth to check out the small hand-full of [...]

By |2015-08-03T19:15:36+00:00August 3, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Checking nest-boxes

Foggy Start

Seabird Camp on St. George had an unplanned start.  The plane carrying Ann and Peter circled the island a few times, but it was too foggy to [...]

By |2015-08-03T19:16:09+00:00August 3, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Foggy Start

Seabird Portraits

Kids participating in the recent Seabird Camp on St. Paul Island have created some beautiful portraits of the local seabirds to share with the students on the [...]

By |2015-07-13T07:13:17+00:00July 13, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Portraits

Wrap-Up

The wrap-up for this year's camp started with finding a place for all of our big animal masks.  We can thank Mr. Mac at the St. Paul [...]

By |2015-07-01T23:16:47+00:00July 1, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Wrap-Up

The Grand Finale!

The day of the plays!  Even with the extensive prep work we had done, everything came down to the wire Saturday.  Masks, props and the background mural [...]

By |2015-06-30T22:47:31+00:00June 30, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on The Grand Finale!

LAST DAY OF CAMP

The last day of this year’s seabird camp!  Our plays and goodbyes will happen tomorrow at 7:30 at the Rec Hall. We started the day by hearing [...]

By |2015-06-28T20:47:29+00:00June 28, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on LAST DAY OF CAMP

Seabird Camp Day Four

We started another big day at Seabird Camp with a presentation on “Seabird Capture: How and Why. “ Some of the students, including Chauncey and Ethan, were [...]

By |2015-06-27T19:13:40+00:00June 27, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp Day Four

Seabird Camp Day Three

Day three of Seabird Camp started in the microscopic world as we looked at slides of zooplankton. Some kids had studied plankton the night before and found [...]

By |2015-06-25T23:24:43+00:00June 25, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp Day Three

Seabird Camp Day Two

Thirty three kids packed the science room as Kendra started the day by talking about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and what it does on the [...]

By |2015-06-25T01:20:00+00:00June 25, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp Day Two

Seabird Camp Day One

Seabird camp on St. Paul started with a bang! Teams of campers raced to collect all of the things that seabirds need to raise a chick. The [...]

By |2015-06-24T19:28:52+00:00June 24, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp Day One

Contaminant Research

Veronica Padula and Misty Libby from the University of Alaska, Anchorage (UAA) are on St. Paul this summer studying contaminants in birds. Chauncey (one of our Seabird [...]

By |2015-06-23T00:28:49+00:00June 23, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Contaminant Research

Momentum is building

Count Down:  Only two days until the start of Seabird Camp! Preparations have been rolling along here on St. Paul. We continued to build paper mache masks [...]

By |2015-06-20T20:47:20+00:00June 20, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps, Education|Comments Off on Momentum is building

CAMP PREPARATION BEGINS

St. Paul Seabird Camp starts next week, and students and leaders are busy preparing.  The two interns have started work, and Ram and students have been busy [...]

By |2015-06-17T22:27:05+00:00June 17, 2015|Categories: 2015 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on CAMP PREPARATION BEGINS
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