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Sanctuary Watch Vol 4 No 3 Fall 2003 Vol. 4 • No. 3 SANCTUARYSANCTUARY SeabirdsSeabirds FindFind aa Inside... HomeHome atat Gray’sGray’s ReefReef SanctuarySanctuary RevisitingRevisiting thethe USSUSS MonitorMonitor CritterCritter Files:Files: WhiteWhite SharkShark GordonGordon BennettBennett andand AlAl Brooks:Brooks: StarsStars ofof thethe SeaSea TheThe ‘Canaries’‘Canaries’ ofof FagateleFagatele BayBay SingSing thethe BluesBlues NewNew SanctuarySanctuary ManagersManagers SANCTUARY Letter from the Director “My fellow Americans, ask not what your INSIDE..... country can do for you—ask what you can do for Letter from the Director 1 your country.” These famous words by President Kennedy are Seabirds Find a Home at 2 more important now than ever before. Gray’s Reef Sanctuary Today our oceans and coasts are subject to great Revisiting the 2 environmental pressures. More than 50 percent of our USS Monitor nation’s people live within 50 miles of the ocean or Great Lakes. This migration to our coastlines for home, work or recreation is predicted to increase. Our demands on the sea for food, commerce and Gordon Bennett and 3 recreation are also growing. With these increasing pressures come additional stresses Al Brooks: on the health of our coastal and marine environments. This includes declines in Stars of the Sea marine life populations, increased pollution and habitat loss. Addressing these issues presents unique challenges for managers in an era when New Sanctuary Managers 4 staff and financial resources are limited. How do we best protect the reasons why we visit or move to the coast in the first place—the spectacular scenery, economic NewsSplash 4 prosperity and opportunities to enjoy the ocean’s beauty with family and friends? We do it by working together. The ‘Canaries’ of Fagatele 5 President Bush has renewed the challenge for all of us to work together to find Bay Sing the Blues creative solutions to the problems facing our country. Fortunately for our national marine sanctuaries, many people have answered that challenge. Critter Files: White Shark 6 Thousands of people have volunteered their time over the years to help preserve these places because they are important to them. From looking for signs of oil spills to educating boaters on how to keep from damaging coral reefs, volunteers offer sanctuaries a wealth of experience and knowledge. In this issue of Sanctuary Watch, you will learn about two extraordinary sanctuary volunteers who have truly made a difference. We hope you will find their stories as inspirational as we do. There are many volunteer opportunities with our national marine sanctuaries. To learn more about them, visit sanctuaries.noaa.gov and contact the sanctuary nearest you! Sincerely, Sanctuary Watch is a publication of the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Sanctuary Program, Communications and Daniel J. Basta, Director Development Branch. Branch Chief Matthew Stout Above: A Beach Watch volunteer records the numbers Graphic Artist Sandra Nitchie and species of birds present at his designated beach. Editors David Hall and Photo: Gulf of the Farallones NMS Michael Murphy Right: Beach Watch volunteers document the live and Cover Photo: White shark. dead animals of the sanctuary. © Ron and Valerie Taylor/Seapics.com Photo: Gulf of the Farallones NMS 1 anctuary Wings: and written articles for the journal of the Georgia Ornithological Seabirds Find a Home at Gray’s Reef Society, said pelagic birds like shearwaters and petrels can smell S schooling bait fish miles away. “If the live bottom area is rich throughout the water column, To get a complete ecological picture of Gray’s then you should expect to see the very small fish and the even Reef National Marine Sanctuary you have to look above the smaller creatures they feed on,” said Wigh. “To find the true water, not just under it, according to avid birder Russ Wigh. pelagic birds here foraging on them completes the ecological Wigh and fellow birder Robert Calhoun spent seven days picture.” in June aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Several scientists used the Nancy Foster this summer as a Administration ship Nancy Foster completing the first formal platform to study how larval fish are distributed in the waters bird survey ever done for the sanctuary. What the volunteers saw of Gray’s Reef. Wigh said that conducting ongoing surveys to was far more than Wigh expected. uncover patterns of when and where the pelagic birds are feeding Normally, birders would expect to travel 70 miles or more will enhance our understanding of the sanctuary’s food web. off the Georgia coast to see true pelagic birds—birds like Because they spend so much of their lives far out at sea, pelagic shearwaters, petrels and bridled terns that spend their entire lives birds are difficult to at sea except when they nest or are blown inshore during heavy study. Like sea turtles, storms. But Gray’s Reef is only 17 nautical miles offshore. Wigh they only come ashore saw the pelagics feeding there alongside seabirds—birds like to nest. Thus, the picture gulls and royal terns that forage at sea but return regularly to of their life cycle is land—during perfectly calm weather. in no way complete. “And to think it’s been going on under our noses and we didn’t Studying the pelagics at even know about it,” said Wigh. “Seeing those tubers put me in Gray’s Reef could fill seventh heaven.” (Cont’d. on pg. 4) Tuber is the nickname for the true pelagic birds because they Birder Russ Wigh observed a have distinctive external tubes that run along their beaks. The variety of seabirds tubes help them manage their intake of seawater when they dive during a recent trip to Gray’s in for their prey and lead directly to an enlarged olfactory gland. Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Wigh, who has organized pelagic birding trips for many years Photo: Gail Krueger evisiting R the USS Monitor Monitor Expedition 2003 got underway on July 19 as a scientific dive team from NOAA, the National Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, East Carolina University and the U.S. Navy assembled in Hatteras, N.C., for dives on the wreck of the USS Monitor. Several individual volunteers also participated in this year’s effort to survey the wreck following the recovery in 2002 of the Civil War ironclad’s revolving gun turret. Photos: Monitor Collection, NOAA 2 SANCTUARY Alan Brooks Alan Brooks is serving his second year as chair of the Olympic tars of the Sea Coast National Marine Sanctuary S Advisory Council, where he has Gordon Bennett of Muir Beach, Calif., and distinguished Alan Brooks of Olympia, Wash., are the recipients of Volunteer of the Year Alan Brooks (center) with National Marine Sanctuary Director Daniel J. Basta and actress himself as a the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s first ever Volunteer Lauren Hutton at the foundation’s ceremony in Washington, passionate of the Year Award. Bennett, a volunteer with Gulf of the D.C. Photo: Laurie Howell and extremely Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Brooks, a volunteer effective advocate of ocean habitats and marine life. In addition with Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, were honored to his duties on the council, Brooks is the District 5020 Rotary in June at the foundation’s Leadership Awards Dinner held in Foundation chair for the 81 clubs in Northwestern Washington Washington, D.C., during Capitol Hill Oceans Week 2003. State and all of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and has used his contacts to develop new sanctuary partnerships with Gordon Bennett business leaders. He has also arranged for sanctuary staff to give Gordon Bennett began presentations to numerous organizations in communities adjacent volunteering for Gulf of the to the sanctuary. Farallones National Marine “During his four-year tenure on the sanctuary advisory council, Sanctuary in 1993. Since then, Alan has tirelessly sought to elevate the stature and public he has dedicated an astounding awareness of the sanctuary, and the National Marine Sanctuary 2,000 hours to monitoring beaches, Program as a whole,” said Olympic Coast National Marine responding to oil spills and Sanctuary Superintendent Carol Bernthal. “As a result of his investigating the impact of natural actions, the council has taken on a much more active role and and manmade events on wildlife. many members have reached out to their constituent groups, Bennett provided valuable input achieving the national goal of having an effective and engaged on the sanctuary’s first visitor’s sanctuary advisory council.” center and was instrumental in Despite his obvious impact, Brooks said the national award creating education programs to help surprised him. Gordon Bennett of Muir Beach, alleviate the effects of watercraft “I am astounded by the personal recognition because I know Calif. is the recipient of the first full well that success comes from the support and cooperation ever ‘Volunteer of the Year’ Award on the harbor seal. by the National Marine Sanctuary “Gordon has distinguished of all those around you,” said Brooks. “It has been a personal Foundation. himself among the Beach Watch growth experience working with different views and philosophies volunteers, a highly trained cadre of sanctuary citizen scientists and experiencing these divergent opinions come together in a who make direct and meaningful contributions to the health of common consensus and at other times respectfully disagreeing our oceans planet,” said Gulf of the Farallones National
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