Schedule for Pacific Group Annual Meeting Sunday February 22, 2008

Feb. 22, 2009 Feb. 22, 2009 Feb. 22, 2009 Feb. 22, 2009 Feb. 22, 2009 Time ROOM NAME HARMONY ROOM CRYSTAL ROOM PEARL ROOM EMERALD ROOM 0830 0900 PSG Executive Japan Seabird Seabird Marbled Murrelet Council Meeting Conservation Monitoring Group Technical Meeting Meeting Working Group 1000 1030

1045 1100 Open Public Symposium: Ocean Environment Through a Seabird's View: Chair: Y. Niizuma. Convened by Yasuaki Niizuma (Meijo Univ.), Kentaro Kazama and Yutaka Watanuki (Hokkaido Univ.) 1115 On the Oyashio marine ecosystem; the past, present and future. Y. Sakurai 1130 1145 1200 1330 On hazardous PSG Executive Diet Database Kittlitz's Murrelet North Pacific chemical Council meeting Meeting Technical Working Albatross associated with Group Meeting Working Group marine plastic and their potential transfer to . H. Takada, Y. Ogata, A. Nakazawa, M. Miyazaki, R.Yamashita, D. Ochi, Y. Watanuki

1345 1400 Climate change impacts on North Pacific marine ecosystem processes: what are the telling us? W. J. Sydeman* 1415 1430 1445 1500 1530 On albatross and fisheries: conservation and sustainability into the future. J. Croxall

1545 1600 1615 On the Seabird Monitoring Network. Y. Niizuma 1630 1645 1700 1715

1 Schedule for Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting Monday February 23, 2008

Feb. 23, 2009 Feb. 23, 2009 Time ROOM NAME ROOM NAME 0830 Welcome and Introduction: Doug Bertram, PSG Chair; Greg Balogh, Scientific Program Chair; Yutaka Watanuki, Local Committee Chair 0900 Invited plenary speaker: Dr. Rory Wilson Linking Energy with Strategy: A Penguin Perspective on Foraging 1000 Morning break 1030 SYMPOSIUM: Working beneath the surface: SESSION: If This Nest is Rockin', Don't Come new approaches in examining the interplay of Squawkin'; Breeding Biology Chair: S. Riou biomechanics, physiology and behavioural ecology in diving seabirds Chair: Y. Watanabe Constraints of small body size on costs and ☺Lipid reserves in nestling Manx as a benefits of foraging at different depths; how buffer against periods of parental absence: evidence

do auklets tip the scales? J.R. Lovvorn from changes in fuel metabolism during development S. Riou*, and K.C. Hamer 1045 ☺The neighbours from hell: adult-chick aggression in Common Murres K. Ashbrook*, S. Wanless, M.P. Harris, and K. Hamer 1100 Mass-1/3 scaling of stroking frequencies in Nesting habitat and nest success of the Marbled geometrical similar penguins K. Sato Murrelet in forests around the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA M.G. Raphael*, and T.D. Bloxton, Jr 1115 ☺Incubation rhythm and egg neglect in the Ancient Murrelet A. Shoji 1130 Scaling of swim speed in free-ranging ☺The effects of investigator disturbance on the seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles Y. hatching success, chick survival and quality of Short- Watanabe tailed Shearwaters (Puffinus tenurostris) M.J. Carey 1145 1200 Lunch Lunch 1330 Oxygen store depletion and the aerobic dive SESSION: There Goes the Neighborhood; limit in Emperor Penguins P.J. Ponganis Environmental Contaminants, Disease, and Climate Change Chair: K.S. Gill ☺The effects of plastic resin pellets exposure to PCBs in Streaked chicks (

leucomelas) R. Yamashita, H. Takada, M. Fukuwaka, and Y. Watanuki* 1345 Foraging behaviour of two sympatric, Assessment of demographic risk factors and planktivorous alcids K.H. Elliott*, and A.Shoji management priorities: impacts on juveniles substantially affect population viability of a long-lived seabird M. Finkelstein, M. Nakagawa, P.R. Sievert*, J. Klavitter, and D.F. Doak 1400 Compensatory recruitment by non-breeding seabirds: implications for assessing the impact of oil pollution S.C Votier*, B.J. Hatchwell, D. Oro and T.R. Birkhead 1415 ☺Better budgets: measurement of foraging ☺Is the recovery of Pigeon Guillemots from the Exxon effort reveals Imperial Cormorants select Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska foraging currency with depth E.L.C. Shepard*, limited by top-down or bottom-up factors? K.S. Bixler*, R.P. Wilson, F. Quintana, and A. G. Laich D.D. Roby, and D.B. Irons 1430 Climate change and winter distribution of alcids in the Northwest Atlantic Richard R. Veit 1445 Characterizing foraging hotspots of Understanding the role of wild birds in the spread of pygoscelis penguins in the Antarctic coastal avian influenza in East Asia through migration and marine environment N. Kokubun*, A. disease ecology studies S.H. Newman*, J. Takekawa, Takahashi,Y. Mori, and H. Shin S. Iverson, D. Douglas, N. Batbayar, and T. Natsagdorj 1500 Afternoon break 1530 Symposium afternoon break SPECIAL SESSION: Righting Wrongs; Seabird Resoration Chair: J. Croxall Factors influencing breeding success of Common Murres at a restored colony in California G.J.

McChesney*, J.L. Yee, W.M. Perry, M.W. Parker, R.T. Golightly, H.R. Carter, and S.W. Kress 1545 Optimal output strategy in diving Y. Restoration of Ashy Storm-petrels at Santa Cruz Mori*, A. Takahashi, and Y. Watanuki Island, California – initial 2008 findings W.R. McIver*, A.L. Harvey, H.R. Carter, A. Little, J. Boyce, and S. Schubel 1600 Alcid habitat restoration on Santa Barbara Island, California A.L. Harvey 1615 Status and conservation of Newell’s Shearwaters on Kauai, Hawaii: reduction in breeding range and developments towards protecting colonies N.D. Holmes*, T. Joyce and J.R. Troy

2 Schedule for Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting Monday February 23, 2008 Feb. 23, 2009 Feb. 23, 2009 Time ROOM NAME ROOM NAME 1630 Common Murre time-activity budgets: comparisons between a restoration site and established colonies P.J. Kappes*, G.J. McChesney, M.W. Parker, H.R. Carter, S.W. Kress, and R.T. Golightly 1645 Conservation efforts for the Tufted Puffin in Japan K. Ono 1700 Waterworld: the future for seabirds of tropical Pacific islands E.N. Flint* and H.B. Freifeld Seabird conservation priorities in the North Pacific 1715 J.P. Croxall

* = speaker ☺ = student paper

3 Schedule for Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting Tuesday February 24, 2008

Feb. 24, 2009 Feb. 24, 2009 Time ROOM NAME ROOM NAME 0845 Logistics 0900 Invited plenary speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Hasegawa: Population monitoring and conservation of the Short- tailed Albatrosses on Torishima, Japan 1000 Morning break 1030 SPECIAL SESSION: Albatross Conservation; SPECIAL SESSION: The Cormorants are Coming Saving the Leviathans of the Sky Chair: G. Chair: J. Adkins Balogh Translocation and hand-rearing of Short-tailed Toward an updated status assessment for Pacific Albatross chicks T. Deguchi*, F. Sato, N. coast Double-crested Cormorants: implications of Nakamura, T. Harada, Y. Wanatabe, J. Jacobs, recent molecular genetics and satellite-tracking and K.Ozaki studies J. Y. Adkins*, D.D. Roby, K.N. Fischer, D. Mercer, D. E. Lyons, L. H. Reinalda, and Y. Suzuki 1045 Satellite tracking fledgling Short-tailed ☺The relationship between ornament size and Albatrosses: hand-reared vs. naturally-reared breeding success in Great Cormorant Y. Inoue*, H. chicks and contrasts with adults K. Ozaki*, Fujii, Y. Niizuma and Y. Watanuki F.Sato, T. Deguchi, T. Baba, N.Nakamura, R.M. Suryan, G.R. Balogh, J. Jacobs 1100 Uncharted waters: the first flights of fledgling No evidence of sexual differneces in foraging Hawaiian albatrosses S.A. Shaffer, Y. Tremblay, behavior of great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) H. M.A. Kappes*, E.N. Flint, J. Klavitter, B. Fujii*, H. Kuroki, Y. Inoue and Y. Niizuma Christenson, and D.P. Costa 1115 Albatross post-breeding “hotspots”: optimal Evidence of dominant parasympathetic nervous foraging areas or molting areas…or both? activity of Great Cormorants M. Yamamoto*, A. Kato, Y. R.M. Suryan* and K.N. Fischer Ropert-Coudert, M. Kuwahara, S.Hayama, and Y. Naito 1130 Mark-recapture analysis of survival, encounter ☺Levels of persistant organochlorines in Caspian probability, and recruitment of Laysan Terns and Double-crested Cormorants from the Albatross on Oahu E.A. VanderWerf Columbia River Basin: got contaminants? From what? Y.Suzuki*, D.D. Roby, K. Nelson, K.Fischer, D.E. Lyons, and K.Collis 1145 ☺From molecules to management: Evaluation of satellite tagging and capture techniques conservation genetics of the Laysan Albatross for nesting Double-crested Cormorants K.N. Fischer*, L.C. Young D.D. Roby1, J.Y. Adkins, L.H. Reinalda, D.E. Lyons, D. T. King, and R.S. Larsen 1200 Lunch Lunch 1330 SPECIAL SESSION: Albatross Conservation SPECIAL SESSION: Mine! Mine! Mine! The Gull (continued) Chair: K. Fischer Session Chair: M. Kim Foraging habitat of Black-footed and Laysan ☺Individual variation of aggressiveness affects Albatrosses off Alaska during the post- breeding success and nest-site fidelity in Black-tailed breeding season K.N. Fischer*, R.M. Suryan, Gull K. Kazama*, and Y. Watanuki D.D. Roby, and G.R. Balogh 1345 ☺Junk food, a comparison of plastic ingestion A study on breeding status and ecology of vulnerable in adult Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses Saunders’ Gulls (Larus saundersi), South Korea Y. H. Gray*, G.L. Lattin, and C.J. Moore Kwon 1400 Distribution and status of Laysan (Phoebastria ☺The effect of incubation behaviour on within-clutch immutabilis) and Black-footed (P. Nigripes) variation in eggshell color of Herring Gulls M.Kim*, albatross colonies M. Naughton*, H. Hasegawa, R.W. Furness and R.G. Nager T. Deguchi, E. Flint, R. Henry, and M. Rauzon 1415 ☺Variation in foraging behavior as a function ☺The effect of nest attendance during egg-laying and of reproductive stage in Hawaiian albatrosses early incubation on hatching patterns in Herring Gulls M.A. Kappes*, S.A. Shaffer, Y. Tremblay, D.G. M. Kim*, R.W. Furness and R.G. Nager Foley, D.M. Palacios, S.J. Bograd, and D.P. Costa 1430 ☺Effects of changes in garbage management schemes on Glaucous Gull diet in Barrow, Alaska E.L. Weiser* and A.N. Powell 1445 ☺The relationship between telomeres vary and aging in black-tailed gulls (Larus craasirostris) Yuichi Mizutani*, Naoki Tomita, Hiroki Takahashi, Kentaro Kazama, Akira Narita, Osamu Hasegawa, and Yasuaki Niizuma 1500 Afternoon break Afternoon break 1530 SPECIAL SESSION: To Everything, Tern, Tern, Tern Chair: V. Gill Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini); history in Taiwan J. MacKenzie*, C.Shou-hua, S. Liao, and D. Wang 1545 Status, dynamics and threats to breeding populations of Chinese Crested Tern S. Chen*, S. Chang, Y. Liu , S. Chan, Z. Fan, C. Chen, C. Yen, and D. Guo

4 Schedule for Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting Tuesday February 24, 2008 Feb. 24, 2009 Feb. 24, 2009 Time ROOM NAME ROOM NAME 1600 Survey of the marine around the Matsu Tern protected area: the foraging area of Chinese Crested Tern I.C. Yen, Y.W. Chiu, S.H. Chang, and C.C. Cheng* 1615 Will the Caspian Tern Management Plan for the Columbia River Estuary fail or succeed?: results from the first year of implementation D.D. Roby*, D. Battaglia, Y. Suzuki, L. Adrean, J.Y. Adkins, T. Marcella, D.E. Lyons, K. Collis, and A. Evans 1630 ☺Relationships between ocean conditions and the population dynamics of estuarine piscivorous birds in the California Current D.E. Lyons*, D.D. Roby, J.Y. Adkins, L.H. Reinalda, P.J. Loschl, and K. Collins 1645 ☺Foraging habitat and diet of the Elegant Tern in response to new marine habitat at the restored Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve J.N. Hendricks

* = speaker ☺ = student paper

5 Schedule for Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting Wednesday February 25, 2008

Feb. 25, 2009 Feb. 25, 2009 Time ROOM NAME ROOM NAME 0845 Logistics 0900 Invited plenary speaker: Dr. Haruo Ogi: Pelagic seabird's biology: a short story of many past studies 1000 Morning break 1030 SESSION: Foraging Ecology I. Chair: M. SESSION: Empty Nesters; Non-breeding Ecology Arimitsu Chair: M. Kissling Activity-specific metabolic rates for murres: Post-breeding biology of the Kittlitz’s Murrelet M.L. short wings mean high costs K.H. Elliott*, G.K. Kissling*, S.M. Gende, P.M. Lukacs, N.R. Hatch, and S.B. Davoren, A.J. Gaston, and J.R. Speakman Lewis 1045 ☺Covariance of breeding performance in Does the population change of the Pink Salmon Auklets (Aethia spp.), climate and impact the body condition of Short-tailed Shearwaters oceanography in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska in the Bering Sea? K. Toge*, and Y.Watanuki from 1997-2007 A.L. Bond*, I.L. Jones, H.L. Major, J.C. Williams, and G.V. Byrd 1100 The influence of glacial features on Predicting complex interaction patterns in Aleutian oceanographic gradients in Kenai Fjords, marine communities using agent based models Alaska: a closer look at Kittliz’s Murrelet D. Causey foraging habitat M. Arimitsu*, J. Piatt, and N. Hillgruber 1115 Foraging ranges of Streaked Shearwaters in Satellite (PTT) and GPS tracking of seasonal response to the seasonal environmental movements by Alaska seabirds S.A. Hatch*, J. changes in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Transition Kotzerka, and S. Garthe Region, Northwestern Pacific. T. Yamamoto*, A. Takahashi, N. Katsumata, K. Sato, N. Oka, P.N. Trathan 1130 Measuring scale-dependent relationships ☺Dimethylsulfide (DMS): adding a new predictor between a marine bird, its prey and the variable for accurate modeling of ecological systems physical environment in a glacial-marine that include seabirds G. Humphries*, F. Huettmann, C. ecosystem M. Arimitsu*, and J. Piatt Deal and D. Atkinson 1145 Aggregation hotspots of foraging seabirds G. Hunt 1200 Lunch Lunch 1330 SESSION: Foraging Ecology (continued) and SESSION: Count on me; Survey and field techniques Seabird Gumbo Chair: N. Oka and resulting results Chair: D Irons ☺How do Rhinoceros Auklets switch their diet Seabird migration studies in Kamchatka Y.N. to ? M. Ito* and Y. Watanuki Gerasimov, and N.N. Gerasimov 1345 Buy local: Chick provisioning strategy of the Assigning birds to wintering regions in the Bering Sea Juan Fernández Petrel J. Smith*, J. Parrish and using stable isotopes of feathers Steffen Oppel*, Abby M. Wainstein N. Powell 1400 Oceanographic features affect the fitness of Number of seabirds on the Talan Island: twenty-year individuals of different populations in a trends A.V. Andreev*, E.Y. Golubova, S.P. Kharitonov, pelagic bird N. Oka*, K. Matsumoto, D. Ochi, Y. V.A. Zubakin Watanuki, K. Satoh, T. Deguchi, M. Shirai, and M. Yamamoto 1415 Health assessment of Marbled Murrelets in Winter dispersal and activity patterns of Black-legged Port Snettisham, Southeast Alaska V.M. Kittiwakes breeding in Prince William Sound, Alaska Padula, S.N. Newman, S.K. Nelson, T. Haynes A.E. McKnight, D.B. Irons*, A.J. Allyn, and K.M. Sullivan and C. Cray 1430 Plumage variation in Kittlitz's Murrelet R. H. North to Alaska: evidence for changes in distribution Day* and M.L. Kissling of three North Pacific albatrosses based on at-sea surveys in the Bering Sea K. Kuletz*, E. Labunski, M. Renner 1445 An international treaty of the African-Eurasian Number and distribution of birds on the Matikil’ Island flyway embraces global seabird conservation (Yamskie Islands, Sea of Okhotsk) L.A. Zelenskaya issues S. Dereliev and S.H. Newman* 1500 Afternoon break Afternoon break 1530 SPECIAL SESSION: Don't catch me if you can; SESSION: Eat Me; Predators and the Creatures They Seabird Bycatch Chair: S. Fitzgerald Swallow Chair: H. Major Seabird bycatch in salmon gillnet fishery by ☺Restoration of Leach’s (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) Russian research vessels in the Russian and Fork-tailed (O. Furcata) Storm-petrel populations exclusive economic zone Y.B. Artukhin to recently predator-eradicated Aleutian Islands R.T. Buxton* and I.L. Jones 1545 Sex, age, and species composition of seabird ☺Relative vulnerability of threatened Snake River bycatch in the 2005 Alaska demersal longline Steelhead smolts to -eating birds on the Columbia fishery E.M. Phillips*, H.M. Nevins, S.A. Hatch, River N. Hostetter*, D.D. Roby, A. Evans, K. Collis, and J.T. Harvey, and G.R. Balogh M. Hawbecker 1600 Overview of the interaction between seabird ☺Streaked Shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas) and Taiwanese longline fisheries in the Pacific forage for preys in day- and night-time N. Katsumata*, Ocean H. Huang*, K. Chang, and J. Tai K. Sato, N. Oka, and Y. Watanuki

6 Schedule for Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting Wednesday February 25, 2008 Feb. 25, 2009 Feb. 25, 2009 Time ROOM NAME ROOM NAME 1615 Development of light streamer tori-lines suited Seabirds in the stomach contents of Black to Japanese pelagic longline fishery in the (Rattus rattus) on Higashijima, the Ogasawara Islands western North Pacific H. Minami*, K. Yokota and T. Yabe*, T. Hashimoto, M. Takiguchi, M. Aoki, and K. M. Kiyota Kawakami 1630 = ☺Does time heal all wounds? Habitat changes associated with introduced predators H.L. Major 1645 Optimizing tori lines in pelagic longline -borne cameras show interactions among sea- fisheries E. Melvin* ice, krill, and foraging penguins. S. Watanabe*, A. Takahashi, Y. Naito, N. Miyazaki, and P.N. Trathan 1700 Solving the ‘Crowder problem’: balancing the Fisheries discards as food for seabirds: fast food, economic costs and demographic benefits of junk food, or health food? L. Wickliffe, E. Sachs, and P. reducing seabird bycatch in fisheries J.L. Jodice* Lavers*, C. Wilcox, C.J.Donlan, D.K. Wingfield, and L.B. Crowder 1715

* = speaker ☺ = student paper

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