Dedicated to the study and conservation of Pacific Seabirds and their environment.
Arriving in Alaska five decades ago, David Irons began his career studying how sea otters structure nearshore marine communities. This work led him to seabirds by examining sea otter–seabird interactions for his M.S. at Oregon State University. His Ph.D. research at the University of California, Irvine focused on the foraging and breeding biology of Black-legged Kittiwakes. After two decades devoted primarily to…
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 Commonwealth Arts on a writer’s trajectory at the University of Exeter, she had an itch to conduct conservation work and explore the world. However, it wasn’t until she met John Piatt and…
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…
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 »
