No Seabird Camp on St. George This Year
No Seabird Camp on St. George this year, but the kids have still been busy. The least auklet nest boxes that were made and installed during camp [...]
No Seabird Camp on St. George this year, but the kids have still been busy. The least auklet nest boxes that were made and installed during camp [...]
Work on St. Paul continued for a few days after Seabird Camp. Our intern, Diamond, joined USFWS crew to capture Least Auklets and collect the food they [...]
Garbie was safely installed in her new home in the lobby of the Tribal Office. Here she is getting her photo taken with Paul and Dallas from [...]
Garbie the trash bird was completed today and is looking for a (large) burrow to call home. She already has many friends! Here she is posing with [...]
Camp is officially over, but work continues on t-shirts and finishing the fishing line recycling containers (made from recycled Folger coffee cans).
The final official day of Seabird Camp 2014. We started the day with a conference call with Sean Russell of the “Stow-It-Don’t –Throw-It” project. It was good [...]
Another busy day at Seabird Camp! The campers finished painting their bright blue or green murre eggs to start camp today. We will use them for games [...]
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. [...]
After doing some research, Campers were surprised to find out how long waste items take to biodegrade. We took in the “Stow-It-Don’t-Throw-It” program’s presentation on marine debris, [...]
We had a very busy, active and messy first day in Seabird Camp! During “Bird Beak Buffet” students learned which “beaks” work best for which food items. [...]
Trevor Haynes put together this fun movie about the 4th July celebrations, with some great footage of the Seabird Float in action!
The St. Paul Mini-Marathon is an annual event put on by the City of St. Paul as part of the 4th of July celebration. It starts at [...]
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 [...]
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!
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" [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]