Are you going? Registration for the 51st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group has opened

The Pacific Seabird Group’s 51^st Annual Meeting has opened for registrations. The theme for the event is “Faces of Seabird Conservation - shining a spotlight on the humans that love seabirds”.

The event will take place at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Organisers have promised a packed agenda as well as a selection of exciting field trips, including a bird watching tour, Seattle Aquarium tour, and Burke Museum tour.

Abstracts, inspired by the topics listed below, can be submitted until 28 November 2023: 

• Symposium: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
• Special paper session: Banding
• Special paper session: Offshore Wind Energy
• Breeding biology
• Citizen science, outreach, and local engagement
• Climate change effects
• Conservation, restoration, and policy
• Contaminants and disease
• Foraging and fisheries
• Habitats and distribution
• Migratory and non-breeding biology
• Movement and behaviour
• Physiology and energetics
• Population dynamics and trends
• Tools and techniques
• Traditional ecological knowledge

Travel awards are also available to those who qualify. Applications for travel awards are included as part of the abstract submission process. More information on travel awards can be found, here.

For more information, head to the Pacific Seabird Group’s website for the event, here.

03 November 2023