Gail Gallaher 鈥17 Wins Award at Pacific Seabird Group Meeting

In February, Professor Nina Karnovsky brought four students to the 43rd annual Pacific Seabird Group meeting in Oahu, Hawaii. Three students presented posters, and one did an oral presentation. Gail Gallaher 鈥17 won the best undergraduate poster prize, which is a big honor. 

The three posters were:

  • Jeffrey Allen 鈥17 and Leo Estrada 鈥17 presented 鈥淒oes Past Success Predict Future Success in Nesting Seabirds?,鈥 a research project they worked on with Prof. Karnovsky, Kyle Jensen 鈥17, Nicole McDuffie 鈥16, and Diana Hichwa of Madrone Audubon.
  • Leo also presented 鈥淐ommon Murres in Uncommon Numbers: The Effect of the Resurgence of Common Murres on the Nesting Behavior of Brandt鈥檚 Cormorants,鈥 research he worked on with Hichwa and Prof. Karnovsky.
  • Gail Gallaher 鈥17 won the award for "The Busy Life of a Cassin鈥檚 Auklet: Interannual Changes in Daily Time Allocation,鈥 which she worked on with members of Point Blue Conservation Science and Profs. Karnovsky and Andrew Cavalcanti.

And Miranda Starr 鈥16 spoke on "Lend Me Your Ear (Bones): Fish Consumption and Breeding Success in South Polar Skuas on King George Island, Antarctic Penninsula,鈥 which she worked on with Madeline Cowen 鈥16 and members of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division.

Abstracts of these projects, and the entire conference, can be found in the .