Marine Bird and Mammal Surveys, North Pacific and Bering Sea 2012-2014

This work was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Ecosystems Mission Area, and the Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) program of both USGS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR) and the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands LCC also provided financial and logistic support. We are grateful to AMNWR managers Steve Delehanty, Jeff Williams, and Heather Renner for program support and for the use of data from Aiktak and Buldir, and to Captain William Pepper and crew of the R/V Tig ̂lax ̂ for outstanding research logistic support in the Aleutians. Additional advice and support was provided by Vernon Byrd, Scott Hatch, Lisa Spitler, and Bill Sydeman. We are especially grateful to those who joined us in the field work and contributed enthusiastically to our data collection: Josh Adams, Allison Anholt, Amanda Gladics, Keith Hobson, Kelli Johnson, Forrest Piatt, Barry Sampson, Jane Sullivan, and Ajay Varma. Any use of trade names is for descriptive purposes only and does not represent endorsement by the federal government.