Fieldwork Diaries

16. Migratory seabirds in the Aleutian Islands | Carley Schacter


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Carley Schacter (one of Stacy’s buddies from their time in Newfoundland together) spent 4 field seasons during her PhD on a number of remote islands in the Aleutian Islands of the North Pacific. Her work involved tagging Auklets, a type of migratory seabird, to investigate what they get up to during the winter. She chats about the challenges of planning for and working on tectonically-active uninhabited rocks at the edge of the world, how to sleep whilst surrounded by screaming birds, and what to do when someone machetes through the radio communication wire…
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