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…

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…

David Duffy is currently a professor of botany, and a graduate professor of zoology, ecology, evolution and conservation biology at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Dave currently directs the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, which manages over 300 employees and over $14 million in projects to conserve the resources of Hawaii and other Pacific Islands. His prior work includes seabird studies in…

For her lifetime of education, research, and international leadership in conservation of seabirds, including opening new frontiers in ecological studies and conservation of penguins in South America, the Pacific Seabird Group honors Dr. Boersma with the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award.