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The 37th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group was held in Long Beach, California, USA in February 2010.  Abstracts of presentations are now available on-line.  Titles and authors of 14 presentations that dealt with ACAP-listed albatrosses and "potential candidate" shearwater species are listed below.

Vessel-specific seabird bycatch in Alaska demersal longline groundfish fisheries, 2004-2007.  Kim Dietrich & Shannon Fitzgerald

A pilot project on seabird interactions with paravane gear on an Alaskan groundfish trawl catcher processor.  Shannon Fitzgerald, Todd Loomis & Jeff Pesta.  Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes

Influence of water masses on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the northeastern Chukchi Sea.  Adrian Gall, Robert Day & Caryn Rea.  Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris

Diving behavior of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters.  Julia Gleichman, David Hyrenbach & Nina Karnovsky.  Puffinus pacificus

Crying wolf? are Black-footed Albatross really endangered?  Craig S. Harrison.  Phoebastria nigripes

Global distribution and conservation of threatened seabird breeding islands.  Reina Heinz, Bernie Tershy, Kelly Newton, Sarah Horwath & Donald Croll

Albatross appetite for pelagic plastics: patterns across the north Pacific and relationship to organic contaminants  Robert Henry, Suhash Harwani, Donald Croll, Bernie Tershy, June-Soo Park, Myrto Petreas, Scott Shaffer, Michelle Kappes, Yann Tremblay, Daniel Costa, Cynthia Vanderlip & Charles Moore.  Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis & Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses

Wintering habitat use patterns by threatened Pink-footed Shearwaters.  Peter Hodum, David Hyrenbach & Josh Adams.  Puffinus creatopus

Restoration of endangered seabirds in the main Hawaiian islands.  Nick Holmes, Cathleen Bailey, Fern Duvall, Holly Freifeld, Darcy Hu, Megan Laut, Jay Penniman, Chris Swenson & Lindsay Young.  Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli

Interannual variation of top predators and prey abundance on Georges Banks (northwest Atlantic).  Marie Martin, Richard Veit & Michael Jech.  Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea

Pink-footed Shearwaters (Puffinus creatopus) off Canada's west coast: seasonal distribution patterns and characteristics of marine areas where they have been observed.  Ken Morgan & Alicia Newbury

Response of non-breeding Sooty Shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) to spatial and temporal variability in winds within the California Current System.  Melinda S. Nakagawa, Josh Adams, Erika McPhee-Shaw & James Harvey.

Uncharted waters: the first flights of fledgling Hawaiian albatrosses.  Scott Shaffer, Yann Tremblay, Michelle Kappes, Elizabeth Flint, John Klavitter, Barry Christenson & Daniel Costa.  Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis & Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses

When albatrosses ignore scientific literature: problems using plumage class and bursa size to age birds killed in longline fisheries.  Jo Smith, Ken Morgan & Ann Edward.  Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes

The 38th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group will be held in Hawaii, USA in February 2012 (click here).

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 26 July 2011