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The 38th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group will be held in Turtle Bay, Haleiwa,Oahu, Hawaii, USA over 7-10 February 2012.  The programme and abstracts for the meeting are now available on-line.

Listed here by title and authors are those papers to be presented that deal with albatrosses (primarily the three Northern Pacific albatrosses Phoebastria spp.) and with seabird mortality in fisheries that impact ACAP-listed species.

Laysan Albatross.  Photograph by James Lloyd

Haruko Ando, Lindsay Young, Maura Naughton, Hajime Suzuki, Tomohiro Deguchi & Yuji Isagi.  Population genetic structure of the Black-footed Albatross in North Pacific

Melinda Conners & Scott Shaffer.  Working the night shift: a fine-scale study of the diurnal/nocturnal foraging behavior of two Hawaiian albatrosses

Shannon Fitzgerald and Kimberly Dietrich. Seabird bycatch in Alaska trawl fisheries - a comparison of observer sampling protocols

Troy Guy, Sarah Jennings, Robert Suryan, Edward Melvin & Marlene Bellman. Albatross-fishery overlap in the U.S. west coast groundfish fisheries

Robert Henry, Elliot Hazen, Michelle Kappes, Bernie Tershy, Dave Foley, Scott Shaffer, Yann Tremblay, Daniel Costa, María Félix & Donald Croll. From subtropical to eastern boundary: successful long distance breeding range expansion of a top marine consumer the Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

David Hyrenbach, Andrew Titmus, Michelle Hester, Cynthia Vanderlip, Chih-Wei Chang & Travis Wahl. Boluses reveal species-specific and colony-based differences in plastic ingestion by Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses

Nobuhiro Katsumata, Noriyosi Sato, Kosuke Yokota, Takashi Uehara, Tatsuki Oshima, Ippei Fusejima, Kotaro Yokawa & Hiroshi Minami. Effectiveness of double-weighted branchlines for reducing on seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries off Chile

John Klavitter, Greg Schubert, Leona Laniawe & Pete Leary. Historical account of Short-tailed Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge including a successful social attraction project where a chick successfully fledged during the 2010-11 breeding season

Ellen Lance & Christopher Noyles. Using satellite imagery to monitor nesting Short-tailed Albatross

D.F. Luers.  Accounting for yearly variation in albatross bycatch in the deep-set Hawaii pelagic longline fishery

Edward Melvin & Troy Guy. Best-practice seabird bycatch mitigation for pelagic longline fisheries

Daisuke Ochi, Takuto Kimura, Ikuo Hasigaya, Tatsuki Oshima, Hiroshi Minami, Kotaro Yokawa & Ippei Fusejima. Search and fish: seabirds as an ecological indicator of schooling tunas for Japanese pole-and-line fisheries in the western central Pacific Ocean

Robert Suryan & Karen Courtot.  Albatross post-breeding "hotspots": optimal foraging areas or molting areas...or both?

Hajime Suzuki, Kazuo Horikoshi, Hayato Chiba, Jyuko Ando, Kazuto Kawakami & Teturo Sasaki.  The status and conservation of seabirds in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan  [albatrosses Phoebastria spp.]

Andrew Titmus, Michelle Hester, Pamela Michael, Josh Adams, Cynthia Vanderlip & David Hyrenbach. A north western Pacific metric of pelagic marine debris: plastic ingestion by Black-footed Albatross from Kure Atoll, Hawai'i

Stacy Vander Pol, Colleen Bryan, Angela Hansen, Aaron Hebshi, Brenda Jensen, Frances Nilsen, Rebecca Pugh, David Roseneau & Lindsay Young.  Mercury and organic contaminants in Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) eggs collected from Hawai'i in 2010

William Walker, Robert Pitman & Lisa Balance.  Wanted: dead or alive? Hawaiian albatrosses feed mainly by scavenging on mesopelagic cephalopods

William Walker & Shannon Fitzgerald. Preliminary results on the diets of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses and the use of fisheries by-caught marine birds in investigations of natural feeding strategy

Lindsay Young, Eric VanderWerf, Michael Lohr, Andrew Titmus & Christopher Miller.  A story of predation, eradication and recovery at one of Oahu's largest seabird colonies: Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve.  [Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis]

It is planned to post news stories on some of these papers after they have been presented.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 23 January 2012