Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

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…

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…

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…

Bill is a John Lewis Paton Distinguished University Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) where he has led research on seabirds for more than 40 years. At the nexus of the Psychology, Biology, and Ocean Sciences departments at MUN, Bill initiated a long-term interdisciplinary ecosystem research program focused on the behavioural ecology of seabirds, marine food webs, and biological oceanography. Throughout…

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 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…

Elizabeth (Beth) Flint is the Supervisory Wildlife Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex, and the Seabird Coordinator for the Pacific Islands Refuges, a position she has held for the past 28 years. Beth received her Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA in 1985 and has authored dozens of scientific publications. But most…