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title: "A Future for Seabirds: the Pacific Seabird Group meets next week to hear about North Pacific albatrosses (and other procellariiforms)"
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# A Future for Seabirds: the Pacific Seabird Group meets next week to hear about North Pacific albatrosses (and other procellariiforms)

The [Pacific Seabird Group](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=index&t=Home&s=1) will be holding its [42nd Annual Meeting](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=meeting&t=Annual%20Meeting&s) next week in San Jose, California, USA, with the theme “A Future for Seabirds”.

 According to the meeting’s [abstract book](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/2015mtg/PSG2015_Abstracts.pdf) 10 presentations will be given on the three species of ACAP-listed Northern Pacific albatrosses, as well on mitigation of seabird bycatch, as listed below.

 Vickie Bakker & Myra Finkelstein.  Risk management for at-risk seabirds: assessing bycatch effects on the population dynamics of Black-footed Albatross (*Phoebastria nigripes*).

 Melinda Conners, Chandra Goetsch, Suzanne Budge, Yoko Mitani, William Walker, Daniel Costa & Scott Shaffer.  Black-footed Albatrosses have higher levels of individual variability in behavior and diet than their sympatrically-breeding congener, the Laysan Albatross.

 Karen Courtot, Michelle Reynolds, Paul Berkowitz, Janet Moore & Elizabeth Flint.  Effects of sea-level rise and wave-driven inundation on colonial seabirds at Midway Atoll.

 Amanda Gladics, Troy Guy, Edward Melvin, Robert Suryan, & Joseph Tyburczy.  Collaborating with fishermen to reduce seabird bycatch in west coast Sablefish fisheries.

 Sarah Gutowsky, Ian Jonsen, Marty Leonard & Scott Shaffer.  Daily activity budgets reveal a quasi-flightless stage during non-breeding in Hawaiian albatrosses.

 Julio Hernández-Montoya, Carlo Catoni, Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz, Cecilia Soldatini, Luciana Luna Mendoza & Yuri Albores-Barajas.  Sexual size dimorphism and sexual segregation in foraging distributions in Laysan Albatross from Guadalupe Island, Mexico.

 Caitlin Kroeger, Daniel Crocker, Rachael Orben, David Thompson, Leigh Torres & Scott Shaffer.  Comparative foraging energetics of breeding Campbell and Grey-headed Albatrosses.

 Ellen Lance.  Conservation status of Short-tailed Albatross.

 Edward Melvin & Esteban Fernandez-Juricic.  Laser technology for seabird bycatch prevention in commercial fisheries.

 Lindsay Young, Eric VanderWerf, Cathy Granholm, Hob Osterlund, Kim Steutermann & Thomas Savre.  Breeding performance of Laysan Albatrosses *Phoebastria immutabilis* in a foster parent program.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed%20Albatross%20chick%20Midway%202014%20Dan%20Clark.jpg)

 Short-tailed Albatross fledgling on Midway Atoll, photograph by Dan Clark

 Presentations will also be made on the following procellariiform species: Northern or Arctic Fulmar *Fulmarus glacialis*, Pink-Footed Shearwater *Puffinus creatopus*, Audubon’s Shearwater *P. lherminieri*, Great Shearwater *P. gravis*, Sooty Shearwater *P. griseus*, Hutton's Shearwater *P. huttoni*, Christmas Shearwater *P. nativitatis*, Newell’s Shearwater *P. newelli*, Black-vented Shearwater *P. opisthomelas*, Wedge-tailed Shearwater *P. pacificus*, Manx Shearwater *P. puffinus*, Streaked Shearwater *Calonectris leucomelas*, Hawaiian Petrel *Pterodroma sandwichensis*, Ringed Storm Petrel *Hydrobates hornbyi*, Ashy Storm Petrel *Oceanodroma homochroa* (in a special session), Leach’s Storm Petrel *O. leucorhoa* and Tristram's Storm Petrel *O. tristrami*.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 15 February 2015*