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title: "The Pacific Seabird Group’s 40th Annual Meeting has been hearing about albatrosses and petrels this week"
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# The Pacific Seabird Group’s 40th Annual Meeting has been hearing about albatrosses and petrels this week

The [Pacific Seabird Group](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=index&t=Home&s=1) has been holding its [40th Annual Meeting](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=meeting&t=Annual%20Meeting&s=1#PS) in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. this week.

 Abstracts of presented papers (both oral and poster) are available for reading [on line](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/2013mtg/PSG2013.Abstracts.pdf). A list of those presentations that consider ACAP-listed or potential candidate species of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, along with their senior authors follows.

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Short-tailed Albatross.  Photograph by Hiroshi Hasegawa

 **Senior authors and titles of PSG 2013 Portland abstracts:**

 Josh Adams: Conservation implications of Pink-footed Shearwater (*Puffinus creatopus*) movements and fishery interactions off South America assessed using multiple methods

 Jessie Beck: Demographics of albatrosses caught as bycatch in Hawaiian (2010-2012) and Alaskan longline fisheries (2007, 2009-2011)

 Alexander Brush: Use of a diving procellariiform, the Sooty Shearwater, to expand a marine plastic biodindicator [sic] network

 Valentina Colodro: Engaging local communities to advance seabird conservation: case study of a threatened Chilean endemic [Pink-footed Shearwater *Puffinus creatopus*]

 Valentina Colodro: Using stable isotopes to determine predation of endemic seabirds in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile [Pink-footed Shearwater *Puffinus creatopus*]

 Tomohiro Deguchi: The restoration of a Short-tailed Albatross colony on Mukojima, Ogasawara Islands Group

 Jane Dolliver: Sight and salvage: preparing observers for seabird duties at sea [Short-tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus*]

 Shannon Fitzgerald: Estimates of seabird bycatch in Alaskan groundfish fisheries using the Alaska Region catch accounting system, 2007-2011 [*Phoebastria* albatrosses]

 Adrian Gall: New neighbors: changes in the marine-bird community over the past 35 years [Short-tailed Shearwater *Puffinus tenuirostris*]

 Trevor Joyce: Model-based abundance estimates of the Hawaiian Petrel (*Pterodroma sandwichensis*) and Newell’s Shearwater (*Puffinus newelli*) based on data collected at sea, 1999-2011

 Peter Leary: Reproductive success of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge over eleven seasons

 Matthew McKown: Passive acoustic monitoring of nocturnal seabird populations - computer-analyzed mean call rate correlates with abundance at Wedge-tailed Shearwater breeding colonies

 Edward Melvin: Recent trends in albatross bycatch rates in Alaskan longline fisheries targeting groundfish (2007 to 2011) [*Phoebastria* albatrosses]

 Bungo Nishizawa: Hotspots of seabird aggregations during summer in the western north Pacific [albatrosses and shearwaters]

 Daisuke Ochi: Experimental evaluation of multiple bycatch mitigation measures on pelagic longline operation in western North Pacific

 Amelia O’Connor: Distribution of subadult Short-tailed Albatross in the North Pacific

 Caroline Poli: Activity patterns of Audubon’s Shearwaters breeding in the Bahamas

 André Raine: Using remote cameras to monitor montane seabird burrows in Kaua’i [Hawaiian Petrel *Pterodroma sandwichensis* & Newell’s Shearwater *Puffinus newelli*]

 Mark Rauzon: Wake Atoll ecological responses 8 years after cat eradication [Christmas Shearwater *Puffinus nativitatus*]

 Cotton Rockwood: Patterns of at-sea anthropogenic threats to seabirds in the North Pacific: a comparison of Laysan Albatross (*Phoebastria immutabilis*) and Sooty Shearwater (*Puffinus griseus*)

 Scott Shaffer: Effects of inter-annual variability in the transition zone chlorophyll front on the habitat use and reproductive success of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses

 Masaki Shirai: Active-specific metabolic rate and energy budget during foraging trip in Streaked Shearwater *Calonectris leucomelas*

 Robert Suryan: Post-fledging survival, behavior, and migration of hand- vs. naturally-reared Short-tailed Albatrosses

 Marc Travers: Quantifying seabird collisions with power lines [Newell’s Shearwater *Puffinus newelli* & Hawaiian Petrel *Pterodroma sandwichensis*]

 Stacy Vander Pol: The albatross about our neck: the state of the oceans revealed through the family Diomedeidae

 Marie VanZandt: Foraging strategies and post breeding distribution of the Hawaiian Petrel (*Pterodroma sandwichensis*), from the island of Lāna’i

 William Walker: Daytime occurrence of dead mesopelagic fish and squid at the sea surface and their importance as a previously unrecognized food resource for oceanic marine birds [Black-footed *Phoebastria nigripes* & Laysan *P. immutabilis* Albatrosses]

 Yutaka Watanuki: Wintering area of Streaked Shearwaters and mercury in their tail-feathers: oceanic scale monitoring of pollutants

 Takashi Yamamoto: Movement of Short-tailed Shearwaters with environmental gradient in the sub-Arctic Pacific and Arctic seas through summer to autumn

 Lindsay Young: Causes and consequences of mate choice plasticity: is same-sex pairing in Laysan Albatross making the ‘best of a bad job’?

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 22 February 2013*