PhD Position: Seabirds, Forage Fish, and Novel Research Technologies
The Department of Aquatic Resources at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is looking to recruit a PhD candidate to work with seabirds and forage fish.
Author: Wieteke Holthuijzen
PSG 2021 Call for Sessions!
There is one week left to submit your ideas and proposals for Symposia, Special Paper Sessions, and Workshops, and suggestions of Plenary Speakers for the 49th Annual PSG Meeting, 23-27 February 2021. Please fill out the form available here; Plenary Speaker submissions will be accepted via email. Deadline is September 18th!
PSG Student Research Grant – 2020 Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: Monday, 31 August 2020, 11:59 p.m. PST (-08:00 UTC) Pacific Seabird Group is dedicated to the study and conservation of Pacific seabirds and their environment. Students are a core membership of PSG; they contribute 29% of the PSG operating fund and comprise 40% of the Annual Meeting volunteer base. The PSG Student Research Grant (SRG) was created in 2019 by the…
Volunteer Opportunity: 6-month Field Tech at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
Deadline to apply: June 26, 2020 Description: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is seeking volunteers for the biological program at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge from July 28, 2020 to early/mid-January.
Strike For Black Lives + Resources from PSG Members
On Friday, along with a statement from the Pacific Seabird Group (PSG) Executive Council responding to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, we asked for your thoughts and suggestions on improving diversity, equity and inclusion, within our own scientific community.
Martha and Scott Hatch
Martha and Scott Hatch have worked together on many field trips to remote islands, coauthored important papers in seabird biology, run one of the longest seabird monitoring programs in the Pacific, mentored countless early career seabird biologists, and currently administer the Institute for Seabird Research & Conservation, a non-profit they created post-retirement. Scott worked for the USGS as a Research Wildlife Biologist…
Julia K. Parrish
Julia Parrish is the Wakefield Endowed Professor in the University of Washington (UW) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Associate Dean within the College of the Environment. Her citizen science program, the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), now over 20 years old, monitors 1,000 km of beaches from the North Slope of Alaska to northern California. Julia and her…
