Category: Senior Thesis
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Island Update from Jacob’23
Things on Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge are going super well! We are typically in blinds conducting feeding studies on the common and arctic terns by 0830. For three hours, we monitor what food chicks are being fed by their parents. This includes the prey type (fish or invertebrate species), prey size (relative to the parent’s…
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Congratulations to Thesis Students!
This past Friday was the culmination of the amazing senior thesis work of several students in the lab.
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Andreah’22: Art, Biology and Citizen science!
Andreah is a talented biologist and artist! Read a recent article about her senior thesis. If you have 10 – 20 minutes, take the survey she is conducting. SURVEY LINK
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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? Update from the North
Update from the Alaskan senior thesis students: Katie’18 has built her cabin! Zach Brown’07 and Laura Marcus were married in August! My whole family went for the big event and fell in love with both the town of Gustavus and Laura.
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Island reunions and PSG introductions!
Two wonderful alums found themselves studying seabirds together on Matinicus Rock as part of the Puffin Project in the Gulf of Maine. The Puffins called them back for a second season; Kay was a Puffineer last summer and Clare was one the summer before last. Kristina’12 was a Puffineer several years ago– it was wonderful…
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CELEBRATING SENIOR THESIS STUDENTS!
Mentoring senior thesis students is one of the best parts of my job– I always learn so much! Three biology students wrote grant proposal senior theses in the fall: Alondra wrote a grant to estimate bird mortality on campus from window strikes. Abbey wrote a grant investigating the impact of rising temperatures on bat wintering…
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Sagehen on Southeast Farallon Island!
Clare’19 who was on Seal Island as part of the Puffin Project last summer is now out on Southeast Farallon Island! She is continuing the tradition of Sagehens out on the rock. In past years Matt, Kristina and Eleanor contributed to the collection of the long term data sets that have become part of several…
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SAGEHENS AT PSG–pt 2; GAIL PRESENTS!
Gail’17 presented part of her senior thesis at the 44th annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird group. Great job Gail!