Pribilofs Field Season 

Lab members Dr. Andrea Grunst, Dr. Melissa Grunst and graduate student Sam Clay just finished our first field season studying the behavioral ecology of seabirds on St. George Island, Pribilofs, Alaska. Work this year focused on the range-restricted red-legged kittiwake, of which 75% of the breeding population nests on St. George. We obtained 27 biologging datasets from kittiwakes, including GPS tracks and triaxial accelerometer data. We are now working to characterize juxtapose time activity budgets (TABs) with spatial movement patterns, and to assess how TABs and movement patterns vary with weather pattern across the season and individual levels of mercury contamination.

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Much thanks to our collaborators at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge for a successful field season!