St. Paul Island; field work 2025
Julia Matteucci, Trish Pence, and Kristen Gorman returned to St. Paul this summer to continue their work on seabird non-breeding movement and habitat selection. The team is [...]
St. George Day 3
Stormy weather, and it was nice to be cozy indoors this morning. We talked about a St. Paul Island seabird research project that is finding out where black-legged kittiwakes [...]
Seabird tracking project update
Julia Matteucci shares this research update on the seabird tracking study on St. Paul Island. 2024 Field Season The 2024 field season was an exciting and [...]
Summer versus winter movements of Black-legged Kittiwakes
Marine habitat use by seabirds of the Pribilof Islands Marine Ecosystem (PRIME) Last summer, our research crew spent their first field season attaching both GPS and geolocator [...]
Winter behaviour of seabird biologists
Have you ever wondered what field biologists do during the wintertime when they are not in the field? We’re not quite as busy as during the [...]
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, [...]