Title: ReFER: Seabirds and Fur Seals in the East Bering Sea
When: 17 July 2004
Who: Alan Springer (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks)
Sara Iverson (Dalhousie University)

Alan is a Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks interested in matters of scale in time and space of large marine ecosystems and of variability in production at various trophic levels.
Sara is a Professor at Dalhousie University whose interests concern how animals adapt to and exploit their environments.
Alan and Sara talked about how some populations of seabirds at colonies in the Bering Sea have fluctuated markedly during the past few decades. One hypothesis to explain these changes is that seabird populations are responding to long-term changes in food supply that are part of a natural ecosystem response to changes in ocean climate regime.