Teaching collection: on the road
The marine bird teaching collection travels with COASST staff to training workshops and presentations, but our birds also sometimes go on a quick vacation with a partner.
View ArticleProtected: Tarballs and oil and birds – oh my!
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View ArticleKit Innovations by COASSTers
Once COASST kits hit the beach with a COASSTing team, they get even better. COASSTers add to the kits with their own customizations.
View ArticleCOASSTal Internship
This month, The Talking Raven (the official newsletter of the Quileute Tribe) featured an article about the 2024-2025 COASST internship program for high school students on the outer coast. This...
View ArticleTrouble with Tags
COASSTers who have been with us for ~4 years will remember our transition from plastic zip ties to wooden tags for our beached bird survey program. The wooden tags have served COASSTers well since we...
View ArticleHoliday Card 2024
Season’s greetings COASSTers! As we head into our next quarter century (!!), COASST is going strong even as we change with the times. Started in the era of ‘Covidity’, our online COASSTLite! trainings...
View ArticleFarewell, Marine Debris
We appreciate all the time and energy COASSTers have put into marine debris surveys – some for nearly the last decade! Unfortunately, today we are writing because we have made the difficult decision to...
View ArticleThe Best of Marine Debris
It has been more than a decade since COASST first received a grant from the National Science Foundation to design our marine debris data module. With the closure of active data collection for that...
View ArticleWelcome Florence!
Just this past week, a new Science Coordinator joined the team at COASST: Florence Sullivan! At the summit of Haleakala, Maui After spending the last 5 years in Hawaii in research roles at the Pacific...
View ArticleAvian Influenza (Bird Flu) in 2025
Avian influenza is a large family of viruses found around the world in more than 100 species of wild birds. The viruses are found within bird intestines and infected birds transmit them to others...
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