Lifetime & Special Achievement Awards
In 1993, PSG instituted two awards to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to seabirds:
- PSG Lifetime Achievement Award: A seabird researcher, educator, or conservationist who has made significant, long-term contributions to seabird science, conservation and education in the Pacific Ocean or the world.
- PSG Special Achievement Award: An individual who has performed outstanding, long-term service for the Pacific Seabird Group, or who has achieved an outstanding and significant exemplary accomplishment for the betterment of seabird research, education, and/or conservation, or both.
Recent PSG Achievement Awardees
Verena Gill
Verena Gill grew up in the UK and had a fascination with birds from an early age due to her parents’ back garden haven for them. Despite studying American and…
Stephen Kress
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…
PSG Lifetime and Special Achievement Awards
| Year | Lifetime Achievement Award | Special Achievement Award |
| 2025 | Verena Gill | |
| 2024 | Stephen Kress | Linda Elliott |
| 2023 | William Sydeman, Kathy Kuletz, Kees Vermeer | Hsiao-Wei Yuan, Simba Chan, Shuihua Chen |
| 2022 | Daniel Roby | Shannon Fitzgerald |
| 2021 | William (Bill) Montevecchi | |
| 2020 | Martha and Scott Hatch, Julia K. Parrish | |
| 2019 | David Duffy, Beth Flint | |
| 2018 | Harry Carter, Enriqueta Velarde | Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz |
| 2017 | P. Dee Boersma, Sarah Wanless | Martin Raphael |
| 2016 | John Piatt, Larry Spear | Lindsay Young, Gus Van Vliet |
| 2015 | David Ainley | |
| 2014 | Anthony Gaston | Vivian Mendenhall |
| 2013 | Malcolm Coulter | |
| 2012 | John Cooper | |
| 2010 | Daniel Anderson | Franklin Gress |
| 2009 | Haruo Ogi | Yutaka Watanuki |
| 2008 | John Croxall | Lora Leschner, S. Kim Nelson |
| 2007 | Michael Harris | Edward Melvin |
| 2006 | G. Vernon Byrd | Mark Rauzon |
| 2005 | Spencer Sealy | |
| 2004 | George Hunt | |
| 2003 | Robert Ricklefs | |
| 2002 | Philip and Myrtle Ashmole | |
| 2001 | Hiroshi Hasegawa | |
| 2000 | Richard Brown | Malcolm Coulter, Steven Speich |
| 1999 | John Warham | |
| 1998 | George Divoky, Craig Harrison | |
| 1997 | William Bourne, James King, James Bartonek (PSG Founders) | |
| 1996 | Charles Guiguet | |
| 1995 | Miklos Udvardy | |
| 1994 | Thomas Howell | |
| 1993 | Karl Kenyon | Arthur Sowls |
