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 [...]
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 [...]
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).
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...
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.
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 [...]