Category: Hawaii
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BOLUS BONANZA BEGINS!
Senior thesis student, Eric Blair, has started his thesis assessing the quantity and type of plastic that albatross breeding in Hawaii have ingested. This project is part of a collaboration with Pacific Rim Conservation.
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Where are they now? Part XI
Sagehens with Albatrosses! Both Kristina McOmber’12 and Nai de Gracia’14 are working on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! Here they are fixing a gapped band of a black-footed albatross. Albatross are so long lived that they need their bands re-closed if they start to develop gaps in order to last the next several decades.
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Popo’ia Island is Positively Incredible!
Popo’ia Island isn’t far from Oahu Island. Photo by Max: Some people call the island ‘Flat Island’ for obvious reasons. From a distance it is hard to tell what the things are that are sticking up. But when you get closer you can see that they are people! People kayak and swim to the island.…
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ISI: Island Scene Investigations into Pelagic Plastic
This week I helped two graduate students of David Hyrenbach, Pam Michael and Andrew Titmus, perform necropsies on four seabirds that had been found dead on Tern Island. Tern Island is a small island in the French Frigate shoals northwest of the main Hawaiian islands. It is a home to many species of tropical seabirds,…
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Wonderous Wedge-tailed Shearwaters
Aloha from Oahu! I am here with my colleague David Hyrenbach from Hawaii Pacific University. We are in the formative stages of beginning a project with wedge-tailed shearwaters. Yesterday we went with Wendy Johnson from the Hawaii Audubon Society to the Freeman Seabird Reserve at Black Point. Mr Freeman donated this land to preserve the…