Island and Predator News:
The Ka'ena Point Fencing Project (Hawai'i) public hearing will be held on October 5. If you cannot attend, we encourage you to submit a written testimony via email to Elizabeth Krueger at the Department of Planning and Permitting. Read more about Kaena Point and the predator fence project at restorekaena.org.
Jobs have been updated as of August 15, 2009 (One new position).
The Rat Island eradication project in Alaska receives a Partners in Conservation Award for work to remove rats from the Aleutian island. [Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]
Photos of the 2009 meeting in Washington State have been added.
Jobs have been updated as of May 3, 2009.
BirdLife International received a grant to implement a three-year island conservation program in the Pacific. 'Restoration of Priority Pacific Island Ecosystems for People and Biodiversity', aims to improve the quality of life and livelihoods of people through the restoration and sustainable management of island ecosystems in Palau and Fiji. [BirdLife International]
Conferences: The Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity will host a conference entitled Island Invasives: Eradication and Management. It will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from February 8-12 2010. They are currently calling for papers, with registration opening in June.
In late 2007, hundreds of dead seabirds washed onto the shores of Monterey Bay, California. Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of what killed them: A surfactant-producing red tide that was previously an unrecognized cause of death. [Conservation Magazine]
The research of Scott Shaffer and SEAPRE member Hillary Young and has been featured on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" as part of their Climate Connections series. Read about and listen to the story here: Researchers Track Boobies for Climate Change Data
Literature section has been updated as of 22 January 2009.
The 2009 SEAPRE Junior Scientist Exchange Program application is online. The application deadline is March 15, 2009. Click for more information.
Transition to digital television affected by the Hawaiian Dark-Rumped Petrel, of all things. "Hawaii was moving to all-digital TV before the Feb. 17 date set for the rest of the nation because of an endangered bird, the Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel. Broadcasters and park rangers want to take down analog transmission towers on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano before the bird's nesting season." [Yahoo Tech News]
Lehua Island Rat Eradication: On January 6, 2009, rat eradication on Lehua Island in Hawaii began. Read, watch, and listen to KGMB Channel 9 and Hawaii Public Radio as they covered the story...
New Funding Opportunity: Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program of the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science & Engineering. Download the .pdf for more details.
Jobs have been updated as of December 1, 2008, with a new posting for Project Coordinator for the Pacific Invasives Initiative.
Mark your calendars! Information about the 2009 meeting in Washington State has been added. Click here for more information.
Conferences: Two new conferences have been announced in February 2010: Ecology of Insular Biotas II, held in Wellington, New Zealand from 1-5 February, 2010. Also, Island Invasives: Eradication and Management will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 8-12 February, 2010. Download information here (.pdf) and book your tickets to New Zealand!
New website section:We've added a Literature section where we'll be adding relevant literature as it comes up. We often can't post .pdfs (due to copyright restrictions) but will provide citations and contact info for authors, who often can distribute .pdfs.
Conferences: The First World Seabird Conference will take place on 7-11 September 2010 at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The conference will be hosted by the Pacific Seabird Group. More information about the conference is available in the first announcement (.pdf download).
Peru guards its seabird guano supplies as prices for synthetic fertilizers soar [New York Times].
The public meeting, originally scheduled for May 19 at the Shoals Marine Laboratory Creek Farm, has been postponed. It will now be held on August 12, 2008 as part of the Gulf of Maine Seabird Working Group at the Maine Audobon camp on Hog Island in Bremen, Maine. More details to follow...
The awardees for the 2008 Junior Scientist Exchange Program have been chosen! Meet the winners.
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Several SEAPRE partners have a paper published in the February 2008 issue of Conservation Biology entitled "Severity of the Effects of Invasive Rats on Seabirds: A Global Review". Email Holly Jones if you'd like a .pdf of this review. National Geographic News also covers this paper in an online article entitled "Rat Invasions Causing Seabird Decline Worldwide [National Geographic News]. |
Science writer Hugh Powell shares his thoughts on a recent Ecology Letters paper authored by several SEAPRE partners [Surf. Bird. Scribble].
National Geographic News explains the rat invasion history and future extirpation on Alaska's Rat Island, in the Aleutians [National Geographic News].
Rats to be eradicated from Fiji's Ringgold Isles for the benefit of seabird breeding [Bird Life International].
Podcast audio program: Removing invasive predators from seabird breeding colonies "could save more seabirds for less cost than reductions in fishing" from SEAPRE partner Dr. Chris Wilcox of CSIRO (Australia) [CSIROPOD].
Scientist (and SEAPRE partner) James Russell is interviewed about radio-tracking a clever, swimming invasive rat in New Zealand. [NPR's All Things Considered, 23 October 2005].
