- I recently finished a report covering our first few seasons of data collection, available here.
- In February I presented an oral paper and a poster at the annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group in San Jose, CA.
- Social media guru Yvan created impressive graphics and tweeted a summary of our results as part of the first annual World Seabird Twitter Conference (#WSTC1) last month. (Belatedly, you can now follow us on Twitter: @project_pelican! Nice to meet you, 21st century.)
- In March, I was back West in Portland (OR), running lots of stress hormone assays with at UP. Hopefully all of our chopping, shaking, and titrating will pay off in the form of some neat results. Katie O'Reilly
- In early April, Yvan and I both be presented at the Texas Bays and Estuaries Meeting in Port Aransas, covering results to date of our work along the Texas coast.
We are now braving yet another round of storms in Florida, waiting for the field season to kick off in earnest. The pelicans are a few weeks behind last year's schedule, giving us time to find some new colonies and work out the kinks with our new inflatable motorboat, the latest of which is exploding launch wheels. That sounds a lot more exciting than it actually is.