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Do you have a seabird science, conservation, and/or education hero? This is your time to recognize those women and men in our society who innovate, challenge, support, advance, mentor, lead, and overall make PSG and the world of seabirds a better place! We are still soliciting nominees for PSG’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Achievement Award to be conferred at this year’s meeting.
We have kicked off a pilot region-specific Slack channel for Washington/Oregon (#wa-or-region) on the Pacific Seabird Group Slack to help increase communication and collaboration across our organization. We hope that this (optional!) channel will be an easy way to connect with others across the region to ask questions, post local stories, announce seabird-related opportunities, share gear, ask for volunteers/support, etc. Everyone with an…
This is a reminder to submit your proposals for Symposia, Special Paper Sessions, and Workshops for PSG 2024 by this Friday, 15 September 2023!
A funded PhD position at Klaipeda University in Lithuania is available! The project will focus on using tracking data from Great Cormorants and sea ducks in the Baltic Sea to identify changes in the coastal environment, gain new knowledge about birds’ feeding behavior and investigate whether this method of seabird oceanography can be used for coastal monitoring. This position is fully funded…
The Pacific Seabird Group is honored to present Dr. Kees Vermeer with a Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of exceptional contributions to marine ornithology and to PSG. His impact on seabird biology began with a 1963 publication on clutch size, from his MSc on Glaucous-winged Gulls. This paper, a Citation Classic, challenged accepted theory, including work by David Lack and Niko Tinbergen….
Since 1978, Dr. Kathy Kuletz has engaged in research and management of seabirds. Her graduate degrees include a M.Sc from the University of California, Irvine and a Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Kathy’s M.Sc. thesis on the reproductive consequences of foraging behavior of Pigeon Guillemots in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska, provided essential baseline information prior to the 1989…
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,…
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 »
