LAAL

  • Orben et al. (2025)

    In January 2024, Scott Shaffer (San Jose State University; SJSU) and Yun-Xuan Lin (National Taiwan University) traveled to Midway Atoll to conduct the third season of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis and P. nigripes) tracking funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This project aims to understand fine-scale behavioral interactions between albatrosses and…

  • Vallery et al. (2025)

    Beth Flint, Anna Vallery, and Meagan Selvig (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Marine National Monuments of the Pacific Biology Team) visited Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge of Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument in August, 2024. This was the first trip to Jarvis Island by USFWS in over six years. The team conducted rapid…

  • Holthuijzen (2024)

    In 2023, I continued to work in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the non-profit organization Island Conservation on research related to invasive house mice (Mus musculus) on Sand Island of Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll NWR). Beginning in 2015, house mice were observed attacking and preying upon adult nesting seabirds—in particular, Mōlī (Laysan…

  • Orben et al. (2024b)

    In January 2023, Rachael Orben and Suzanne Winquist traveled to Midway Atoll, Hawaii, to conduct the second season of Laysan and black-footed albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis and P. nigripes) tracking funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This project aims to understand fine-scale behavioral interactions between albatrosses and the fishing vessels they encounter across their…

  • Young et al. (2024)

    Pacific Rim Conservation 2023 Annual Summary In 2023 Pacific Rim Conservation (PRC) continued with our long-term seabird monitoring and conservation programs across Hawaii and Mexico. We conducted monitoring of 11 seabird species across Kauai and Oahu to determine the outcomes of various conservation interventions and to research the demography of these populations. In 2023 this…