Rhinoceros Auklet - Photo: Mick Thompson/Eastside Audubon

“Seabirds, Citizen Science, and Saving the World”

Presented by Dr. Julia K Parrish

Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center

June 15, 2022   7:00pm 

FREE

In 2009, thousands of Surf Scoters washed ashore along the outer coast of WA. In 2014, tens of thousands of Cassin's Auklets littered beaches from Haida Gwaii in British Columbia south to Newport, Oregon. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of Common Murres were found from CA north to the Gulf of AK. And in 2016, thousands of Rhinoceros Auklets died in the Salish Sea. Is this normal? Join Dr. Julia Parrish to learn more about seabird patterns and COASST - the largest beached bird monitoring program in the world. (More info at coasst.org)

Dr. Julia Parrish

Julia K. Parrish is a Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Professor of Ocean Fishery Sciences, and the Associate Dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. She is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST). Julia has been honored as a NOAA Year of the Oceans Environmental Hero, and has received a Champions of Change award at the White House for her leadership in coastal citizen science.

This presentation will be held at the new Dungeness River Nature Center, (formerly known as the Dungeness River Audubon Center) at 2151 West Hendrickson Road in Sequim.