[Volunteers_fosm] Save the date: Membership Meeting - June 4, 7:00 PM

[Joseph C. Giles]

Please plan to join us on June 4 to hear FOSM member Pauline Ho tell us about counting albatrosses on Midway Island.

Date and Time - June 4, 7:00 PM

Location - Sandia Ranger Station conference room

Program abstract - Midway Island has an interesting combination of military artifacts and wildlife. We spent Dec 2022 and part of Jan 2023 on Midway Island as volunteers for the annual Albatross Census. Midway is a very important nesting site for albatrosses; the annual counts provide long-term population data for these birds. A team of 12 people walks transects on the island(s) to count all the Laysan and Black-footed albatross nests. Each nest with an egg represents two adult birds, plus there are juvenile birds hanging around practicing their mating dances. This adds up to well over a million birds on a 2.4 square mile island. 

Speaker - Pauline Ho is a physical chemist by training who retired from Sandia National Labs in November 2011. She now spends her time traveling, hiking and camping with her husband, Rick Buss, who retired from Sandia 4 years before she did. 

We look forward to seeing you on the 4th.

Thanks,

Cliff Giles
FOSM VP
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