First Day of Camp
Our first official day of Seabird Camp! Everyone piled into the truck at noon, and we drove over to Zapani for more least auklet captures. The foxes [...]
More Least Auklet capture
The day was windy, but sunny. Bianca got up early to join us for a morning least auklet capture session. We were treated to great views of [...]
We made it to St. George
The fog cooperated, and we made it to St. George! It’s fairly quiet here. The fur seals aren’t really around in any numbers, and there are hardly [...]
St. Lawrence Island
Biologists from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) and Tokyo, Japan, are starting a new seabird research project on St. Lawrence Island this summer. St. Lawrence Island [...]
Before there were eggs!
Where do red-legged kittiwakes forage before they lay their eggs? No one really knew the answer to this question until Rachael Orben and team deployed GPS dataloggers [...]
St. George Students – Учащиеся с Острова Святого Георгия
We’re excited for the 2017 Seabird Camp. В предвкушении встречи в Лагере Морской Птицы 2017. […]
Central Place Foraging
What is a central-place forging trip? Red-legged kittiwakes are birds and therefore they lay eggs to reproduce. And, an egg needs to be kept warm for the [...]
Kittiwake Highways and Traffic Patterns
St George Island is home to roughly half a million red-legged kittiwakes and the majority of these birds nest on the north facing cliffs of the island. [...]
What did the GPS loggers tell us?
Last summer, Rachael Orben and Abram Fleishman attached GPS loggers to red-legged kittiwakes on St. George Island to find out where they were finding food during both the [...]
Fun activities on St. Paul
Some recent fun activities at the school on St. Paul Island. Недавние увлекательные занятия на острове Святого Павла. Above: The fire department came to our school and [...]
Sharing Letters
Students living on St. Paul Island (Pribilofs) and Bering Island (the Commanders) are enjoying getting to know each other through pen-pal letters. Учащиеся, живущие на острове Святого [...]
The Arctic Eis Team
We’ve discussed in the past how important teamwork and collaboration is for research. Ship-based research is often an extreme example of collaborative work. […]
Data analysis…
We’ve learnt a lot about doing seabird surveys at-sea. But, what happens after you’ve collected all those data? Maybe this is when the hard work really starts? Catherine [...]
Pen-pal letters begin
Начался обмен письмами друзей по переписке Russian translation is provided below: Перевод на русский предоставлен ниже: Last month, at Bering Sea Days, we initiated the pen-pal project between [...]
Flashback…
Here’s a flashback to the 2015 field season studying red-legged kittiwakes breeding on St. George Island, by Rachael Orben: In early May (before the grass had really started to [...]
Plastics in the Ocean activity set
We’ve just added a new set of seabird activities! Marine debris and plastics in the ocean are topics frequently visited during Seabird Camps, Bering Sea Days, and [...]
Cross Winds on St. George
Penair cancelled the flight because of strong cross-winds at the airstrip, so I ended up having a bonus extra two days on St. George. The younger kids [...]
Bering Sea Days 2015
It’s been a crazy full week. The school on St. Paul Island has been buzzing with activity, learning, and excitement. It’s been really fun to pass doorways, [...]
October on St. George Island
After a busy week on St. Paul with Bering Sea Days, I flew over to St. George Island. Winds had been high for the last week, and [...]
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 [...]
The Foxinator
The last day of Seabird Camp on St. Paul culminated with two incredible theatre performances. […]
Thick-billed murre video
The last of our videos put together by students on St. Paul during Seabird Camp 2015 The thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia)… […]
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 [...]
Least Auklet video!
The second in our series of Seabird documentaries made during Seabird Camp 2015 The smallest seabird species that breeds on the Pribilof Islands- the Least Auklet (Aethia [...]
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 [...]
That’s all folks!
We are out of candy, so we are heading in to Wainwright. Well, we are out of candy, but that’s not why we are heading in to [...]
Charismatic microfauna
Seabirds are charismatic megafauna—they are large animals that have popular appeal due to their cute or beautiful appearance. So what about all the little critters out there? [...]
At Anchor
Early Tuesday morning, we left our study area to head up to Pt. Barrow. Why? Because the marine forecast for our region was calling for 35 [...]
Walruses, auklets, and brittle stars, oh my!
Walruses are part of that special group of animals that are so ugly they are cute. In more scientific terms, walrus are part of the pinniped [...]
The Night Shift
While the seabird and marine mammal observers sleep at night, other scientists are afoot. At every sample station (red dots on the map), they are on deck [...]
Life on the R/V Norseman II
When you are living and working on a boat, two things stand out—you are stuck on the boat, and that boats can move in multiple directions at [...]
Commander Island wildlife
The kids attending the Commander Island summer camp have just sent some wildlife portraits they've been working on. Horned puffins, fur seals, and a raven. Thank you, [...]
The Wheelhouse Gang
We have been transiting from Prudhoe Bay to our first sample station for the past several days (yellow star in location map above shows current location), and were [...]
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 [...]
Kick-off
What is the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) project? The AMBON project is one of three pilot projects whose goal is to help establish a national [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Commander Island Summer Camp
Where are the Commander Islands? The Commander Islands are located at the end of the Aleutian Islands, and about 110 miles east of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Funded [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Field season is coming!
I had a great time talking with you all via Skype in April. Thanks for all your awesome questions, and to Ms. Kushin and Mr. Fay for [...]