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The Seabird Oceanography Lab at Oregon State University is hiring one eligible university undergraduate to serve as a seasonal field technician from July through August to conduct bill load photography of Tufted Puffins, monitor disturbances by eagles, interact with the public, curate photos, and identify prey items in photos. Deadline to apply: April 22, 2024.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a technician/boat operator to conduct boat-based surveys across Washington’s breathtaking marine environments, including Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the outer coast down to the Columbia River. Deadline to apply: April 14, 2024.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is hiring a coordinator to serve as the statewide Threatened, Endangered, and Diversity Program (TED Program) Leader, which consists of 10 professional staff working across the state of Alaska. Deadline to apply: April 23, 2024.
The American Bird Conservancy is hiring 3 seasonal field technicians biologist/ornithology to conduct corvid point counts and recreation site infrastructure surveys as part of a program to assess nest predation threats to the endangered Marbled Murrelet in old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest from June through July 2024. Deadline to apply: as soon as possible!…
Maggie Lee Post, Julie Thayer (Farallon Institute), and Lidia D’amico (National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area) continued the long-term monitoring of breeding seabird colonies on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Brandt’s Cormorants (Urile penicillatus) nested in the highest numbers (n=4825) ever observed in the time series. Though heavy rain storms in early May flooded…
Mark Hipfner (Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Delta – Wildlife Research Division (WRD)) reports that summer 2023 marked the 30th year of operation of the Centre for Wildlife Ecology’s (CWE) seabird research program on Triangle Island. The 2023 field crew consisted of Hannah Avenant and Alice Domalik (ECCC, Delta – Canadian Wildlife Service), Sarah…
USGS WERC Seabird Studies Team: Hawaii PSG Regional Report 2024 Haleakalā Volcano on east Maui supports critical nesting habitat for endangered ‘Ua‘u (Hawaiian petrel, Pterodroma sandwichensis). As part of continuing efforts to catalog breeding seabirds throughout the State of Hawaii (supported by USGS and BOEM), Josh Adams, Jonathan Felis, Emma Kelsey, and Rob Klinger (USGS…
The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Department of Lands and Natural Resources, Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) is hiring a biologist/ornithology to apply advanced biological knowledge to new and existing programs for the informed management and conservation of wildlife and their associated habitats in the CNMI. Deadline to apply: April 13, 2024.
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…
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…
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 »
