Save the Date: The Waterbird Society and Pacific Seabird Group Joint Meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica

Waterbird Society and Pacific Seabird Group will be meeting jointly in San Jose, Costa Rica in early 2025. Mark your calendars for January 6 - 9! 

psg.wildapricot.org/annual-meeting

🚨Paid Coordinator/Manager🚨: Program Coordinator (AK)
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is hiring a coordinator to serve as the statewide Threatened, Endangered, and Diversity Program (TED Program) Leader.

governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska…

IMAGE: Lisa Hupp/USFWS

Our new paper on #Seabird victims of #LightPollution as robust #bioindicators of #plastic contamination is #OpenAccess and available at doi.org/10.1016/j.envi…
Cory's shearwaters are useful to monitor plastic litter in the framework of the #MSFD EU Environment & OSPAR

🚨Paid Field/Research Assistant🚨 Corvid Point Count/Recreation Site Assessment Field Technician (OR, WA)

The American Bird Conservancy is hiring 3 seasonal field technicians biologist/ornithology to conduct corvid point counts

recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

IMAGE: Matt Muir

✨PSG 2024✨
It's almost been a month since PSG's 51st Annual Meeting, share some of your memories with us from event.
pacificseabirdgroup.org

IMAGE: Rachel Sprague (left, PSG Past Chair), Linda Elliott (right, PSG Special Achievement Award 2024). Photo credit: Mark Rauzon.

🐧Pacific Seabirds content submissions and Regional Reports due on March 15th🐧

Submissions can be related to what members are currently working on, reports, art, and recommendations to current events.

pacificseabirdgroup.org/news/pacific-s…

IMAGE: Gregg Yan (under CC BY-SA 3.0)

🚨2024 Oceania Seabirds Symposium🚨

The aim of this symposium is to connect government policy makers, seabird conservation practitioners and scientists from all across Pacific Island countries to work with seabirds.

23-26 Sept. 2024

oceaniaseabirdsymposium2024.com

✨🌟Women in Seabird Science🌟✨

Women in Seabird Science has launched its program website and Instagram. This new resource has the goals of connecting a community of women and underrepresented genders in seabird science.

womeninseabirdscience.com

#WomenInScience #seabirds

🚨Paid Field/Research Assistant: Undergraduate Seabird Predator Field Assistant (Oregon)🚨

The Seabird Predator Field Assistant will work with an MSc student on various field and laboratory tasks pertaining to their thesis research.

jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/150296

IMAGE: C. Schlaw

🚨Australian Avian Genomics Initiative – Call for Partnerships 2024!🚨

There are several seabirds on the list of priority species, including the Australasian Gannet, Imperial Shag and Greater Crested Tern.
bioplatforms.com/avian-rfp-2024/

IMAGE: Hein Waschefort (under CC BY-SA 3.0)

#PSG2024 's silent auktion is rolling! We have lots of people bidding to raise money for the student travel award!

Don't forget to check out the vendors at our PSG 51st annual meeting! @lotektelemetry @oceandiagnostics @wildlifeacoustics and many more!

#PSG2024 #seabirds

We have officially started the 51st annual PSG meeting! We have a wide array of talks and posters! Feel free to share social media stories/tweets of the conference, make sure to include the hashtags #PSG2024 #seabirds !!!

Registration opened today for the PSG annual meeting 2024! Talks start tomorrow and there is a fantastic line up! #PSG2024 #seabird

#Invasive mouse populations threaten seabird colonies 🐁

Kuaihelani is a small set of islands home to the world’s largest #albatross colony. House #mice have started to attack and kill albatrosses, eating them alive.

theconversation.com/murderous-mice…

IMAGE: USFWS (public domain)

🌟Attention early career scientists and students🌟
Need support in fledging to the next stage of your career? The PSG website has links to job boards, funding opportunities, and advice from the sage PSG community.

LINK: pacificseabirdgroup.org/students-and-c…

IMAGE: L. White

✨MSc Position: Monitoring Seabirds Using Acoustics (Canada)✨

Carleton University is searching for a graduate (MSc) student to lead a study funded by the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels.

pacificseabirdgroup.org/news/graduate-…

IMAGE: JJ Harrison

🚨Paid Research Assistant Opportunity🚨

Oregon State University is searching for a faculty research assistant to help with integrating biologging datasets from tagged seabirds into oceanographic and ecological workflows.

jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/149821

IMAGE: Alexis Lours

Paid Research Assistant: Faculty Research Assistant – Caspian Tern Census.

Oregon State University is hiring a Faculty Research Assistant to lead the census of Caspian Terns in the Pacific Flyway during the 2024 nesting period.

jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/149881

IMAGE: JJ Harrison

Stipended Trainee/Intern: Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (REU) (Oregon)

There are multiple REU positions available at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center for Summer 2024.

hmsc.oregonstate.edu/research-exper…

IMAGE: Mark Farley