Dedicated to the study and conservation of Pacific Seabirds and their environment.
Stephen W. Kress is the founder of Project Puffin and former vice president for bird conservation at the National Audubon Society. Dr. Kress received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and his master’s and undergraduate degrees from Ohio State University. For more than 50 years, Dr. Kress’s research has focused on developing techniques for restoring and managing colonial nesting seabirds. The innovative restoration…
Linda Elliott is the Founder, President and Center Director of the Hawaiʻi Wildlife Center. She is a graduate of Kalaheo High school on Oʻahu, attended the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and holds a degree in Wildlife Biology from Arizona State University. Linda’s dedication to wildlife began before she was ten years old. She will tell you that her earliest life-defining moment…
William J. Sydeman, Ph.D., is a marine ecologist with expertise in eastern boundary current, upwelling, and other temperate-subarctic ecosystems of the North Pacific. Bill’s interdisciplinary research lies at the nexus of marine climate change, ocean conditions, zooplankton, forage fish, and marine predators. He has focused particularly onmechanisms of change in ocean temperature and winds, environmental influences on the population biology of krill…
Dr. Shuihua Chen is the former leader of the restoration project for the critically endangered Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini, CCT) in Zhejiang Province, China. Dr. Chen led the project during 2003-2019, when he was the Curator of Ornithology at the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History. Dr. Chen grew up in Zhejiang Province, eastern China. He received a B.S. degree in Zoology…
Simba was born and educated in Hong Kong and, after graduating from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Biology Department. He first began banding birds in 1985, and joined the World Wildlife Fund – Hong Kong to work as the Assistant Education Officer at Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve in 1987. Since 1990 he…
Dr. Hsiao-Wei Yuan is a Professor in the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation at National Taiwan University (NTU). She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Zoology at NTU and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Natural Resources from Cornell University, USA. As a pioneering scholar in the field of bird ecology, biodiversity, wildlife, and animal conservation in Taiwan,…
Upon the advisement of ExCo, the Awards Committee is extending the deadline for Lifetime and Special Achievement Awards to July 7th.
This is a call for nominations for Lifetime Achievement and Special Achievement Awards to be awarded at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group in 2023.
Shannon Fitzgerald is the leader of the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Coordinated Seabird Studies Group. Shannon grew up in central western Minnesota in a conservation minded family. He received a B.S in Wildlife Management from the University of Minnesota where he worked on a study of the Ecology of the West Indian Manatee in Florida. After a season completing prescribed…
Dan Roby recently retired as Unit Leader–Wildlife for the US Geological Survey-Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University. He received graduate degrees from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (M.Sc. in Wildlife Management) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Biology). In addition to his…
Marine Ornithology is an open access journal that is published through a partnership of the African Seabird Group, Australasian Seabird Group, Dutch Seabird Group, Japanese Seabird Group, and Pacific Seabird Group.
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The objective of the Conservation Fund is to advance the conservation of seabirds in developing countries primarily in or bordering the Pacific Ocean by providing funds for conservation and restoration activities, and building within-country seabird expertise. Learn More »
