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Tuesday, January 21st @7PM, 2025 

In person in the Izzie Abbott Boatworks Auditorium and via zoom

Recent research highlights how our shifting climate triggers increasingly extreme conditions. In the North Pacific, this involves regime shifts, El Niño-driven events, and marine heatwaves—all spurring bottom-up changes in ecosystem productivity and structure. As long-lived, highly visible top predators, seabirds provide clear indicators of these shifts. Citizen science has emerged as a valuable avenue for public engagement in data collection and research. The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) has documented changing seabird mortality—capturing shifts in frequency, magnitude, taxonomic breadth, and causality through systematic beached bird surveys. These findings offer compelling evidence of upper trophic responses to a warming climate, while also illustrating how motivated community members can become place-based experts and effective champions for science.

Zoom Registration Link: Here 

Any questions email: ctomlins@stanford.edu