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 [...]
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!
Basketball
Basket Ball court at the school on St. Paul. The school mascot is the puffin.
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.
Aquilina Lestenkof
Director of the Aleut community of St. Paul island Tribal Government talks to 6th and 7th grade students about the cultural significance of seabirds on the Pribilof [...]
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
Trudi Kochutin
Trudi learns about photography from Rosey Robards, Alaska Teen Media Institute
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 [...]