WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:16.800 Alright i think we have made it officially um my  name is Sheridan Alford with the Black AF in STEM   00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:23.760 as well as we have our good friend Chelsea  here as well um and we're going to work with   00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.680 NOAA Sanctuaries today to name some Shearwaters  uh so Chelsea would you I would love for you to   00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:34.080 give your introduction um just some things  that you do and things that you get into. 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:44.160 Hi i'm Chelsea Connor I am a birder um and  a herpetologist I study in NOLS um I am   00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:52.720 starting my PhD this fall at Clemson University  and uh I'm from the Commonwealth of Dominica so   00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:58.160 like most of my birding experience is in the  Caribbean so I'm still learning a lot of these   00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:03.680 North American birds but um I'm really excited to  get to name these shearwaters with Sheridan today   00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:13.440 yes thank you thank you um and so we also have  a special guest from NOAA Sanctuaries here um Mr   00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:21.520 David Wiley um or Wilson he's gonna give us  some background on the birds that we're naming   00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:27.760 let us know about the research that's going  on um so yeah welcome David. Yeah thanks for   00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:32.160 having me yeah this is going to be kind of a  fun opportunity to introduce your people to   00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:35.840 birds they don't usually see because  great shearwaters are way offshore   00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:43.360 so most people never see them so this would  be kind of fun. Yes I'm excited um so the NOAA   00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:48.960 National Marine Sanctuaries um is the official  office um but where are the birds coming from?   00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.320 Well our birds are in the Stellwagen Bank  National Marine Sanctuary do you want me to   00:01:54.320 --> 00:01:59.440 show some pictures would that be easier or?  We love pictures. Okay let's see if I can   00:01:59.440 --> 00:02:03.840 share my screen this is always a challenge  right? Right I believe in you we got this. 00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:07.840 Let's see. 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:14.080 Not there yet. 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:26.720 There we go wonderful. How's that  looking? Boom perfect, seamless! Right   00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:33.280 like we know what we're doing. Right so these  are the birds these pictures that you're seeing   00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:38.880 down here are the birds and we're working in the  Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary I've   00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:43.440 just got a bunch of names up here of different  people on the project because science these days   00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:48.000 is not a one-person deal by any means it takes  lots and lots of people with lots and lots of   00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.800 different expertise but let me tell you first a  little bit about the the national marine sanctuary   00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:59.200 program in general so we're part of a Office  of National Marine Sanctuaries that has at   00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:03.280 least 14 National Marine Sanctuaries around the  country and you can kind of think of these as   00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:08.000 the coolest places in the ocean and the red  star up here in the uh the northeast part   00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.520 of the United States is where I work the  Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.   00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:16.560 So this is where we're working with the  shearwaters it's just off the coast of   00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:23.600 Massachusetts it's not huge maybe you know like a  little over 600 square nautical miles but it's in   00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:28.800 a really really cool productive place with lots  of whales and sea birds and I actually started   00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:33.600 as mostly being a whale biologist but because  whales and birds are eating the lots of times the   00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:38.720 same things they're found in the same spot um I  started becoming more and more interested in birds   00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:43.600 so these are all shearwaters that you're seeing  flying around this whale there's two different   00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:48.000 types here great shearwaters which are the ones  we're going to talk about mostly are these kind of   00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:54.480 um guys that are right in here multi-colored and  then these are sooty shearwaters that are all just   00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:00.160 kind of one uniform dark color and what's cool  about them is that they are open ocean birds they   00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:06.080 go to land only to nest the rest of their lives  they're spending entirely at sea and one of the   00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:11.200 ways they can do this is they have these tubes  on their nose so they can actually drink salt   00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:16.240 water and then they excrete the excess salt right  through the through those tubes you know if we   00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:22.240 tried to drink salt water we'd all die of thirst  so this is how these animals can stay at sea um   00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.840 and drink water without dying of thirst  so it's kind of a neat little adaptation   00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:30.320 that land birds don't have to worry about because  they just go to a freshwater site and and drink. 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:36.800 Now what's really cool about these birds is that  they live in two different hemisphere they're   00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:41.360 really birds of endless summer so they spend our  summer time up here in the northern hemisphere in   00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.240 the North Atlantic and then during our winter  they go down here and spend the summer again   00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:51.680 down in the South Atlantic and that's where they  breed and they breed in some of the most remote   00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:58.160 places on the entire planet there's like maybe six  million great shearwaters maybe ten and they all   00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:02.640 breed on these couple of islands that are between  the tip of South America and the tip of South   00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:07.280 Africa they're called the Tristan Islands right  in here um and they actually breed in burrows they   00:05:07.280 --> 00:05:12.880 don't make nests the way we think of them but they  dig holes and they nest in burrows and they have   00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:18.400 one egg um that they lay that's it just one and  they probably don't do that until they're like six   00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:24.400 or seven years old um and they might live we don't  really know maybe you know 25 to 40 years some   00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:30.880 people have guessed so long live birds uh just one  egg so one offspring every couple of years maybe   00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:36.880 and they dive they dive into the water but not  very deep uh maybe five or six feet usually   00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:43.200 so they're eating stuff that's really at the  top of the uh of the surface of the water so   00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:46.720 how are we going to learn about these  seabirds uh that don't come to land   00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:52.000 uh particularly not in our hemisphere um and you  know even when they are on land they're in holes   00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:56.480 in the ground where they're really hard to get so  what we do is we put satellite tags on them this   00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:00.800 is a satellite tag that you're seeing right here  that we're attaching to the back of this seabird. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.160 And it's it's a small tag it only  weighs 12 grams a penny is about a gram   00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:13.760 so you know you think about 12 of these pennies  uh you know lined up on the back of the bird so   00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:19.840 not terribly heavy um 12 cents is not exactly  what they cost each one of these tags costs   00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:24.640 about three thousand dollars so it's a bit of  investment to to put these tags on these birds   00:06:24.640 --> 00:06:28.800 but it's really important because it tells  us what they are and where they're going. 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:38.640 There's this little solar panel um so they're  actually able to recharge themselves uh so anytime   00:06:38.640 --> 00:06:44.320 the uh light is shining on that solar panel the  battery um in that tag is actually replenishing   00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:49.440 its power supply and that's how we can keep these  tags on for for many many months in many cases   00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:54.560 and what it does that tag talks to a satellite   00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.960 so it's a transmitter that pings out a  frequency and that frequency is picked up   00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:05.440 by satellites and then using some really cool  doppler math it tells you where your bird is   00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:10.640 um on the surface of the planet um anywhere  between within a hundred meters of where it is to   00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:16.800 maybe uh you know a couple kilometers a mile  and a half or so so really good spatial um   00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.600 positioning that you get from these tags that tell  you where the birds are in any any point in time. 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:28.000 So first of all of course we have to  catch the birds to put the tags on   00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:35.600 so what we do is we use bait to get them close to  the boat and then use these long-handled nets and   00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:41.760 grab them and then once we catch them we put  them in these little uh basically they're cat   00:07:41.760 --> 00:07:46.400 carriers you guys probably a lot of you have  cats so we put them in these cat carriers that   00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:51.520 we've specially designed so that they are  pretty comfortable and they're surprisingly   00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:57.120 um calm when they get in there we also line the  bottom of that cage with aluminum foil so when   00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:02.400 they poop we can actually collect that material  and look at the dna that's contained in their poop   00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:05.920 to um you know to figure out what they're  eating so that's part of the project   00:08:07.840 --> 00:08:11.840 so once we catch them we bring them back to our  boat the first thing we have to do is weigh them   00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.680 uh because there's kind of  a formula that we use that   00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:19.920 your tag should not be more than way more than  three percent of the body weight of the bird   00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.240 so the first thing we do is weigh them and record  that weight so if they're um well actually that   00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.520 could we could actually put tags on birds that  are as light as 400 or 450 grams but we really   00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:38.080 we're pretty conservative so we don't tag anything  that's less than 600 or 700 grams um but then we   00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:43.520 create a huge data sheet um that collects all  sorts of data and records all sorts of data. 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:50.720 Of course the whole whole name of the game for  science is collecting data and and organizing   00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:55.280 a way that makes sense so here we are again  putting these tags on the backs of these birds. 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:02.000 Then we also take other samples uh  in addition to putting the tags on   00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:07.440 um we put little um um we have them breathe  into tubes and with these bags in and that   00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:12.960 gives us exhaled gas that we can use to look at a  stable isotopes and what they've been eating so we   00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:17.280 also then take blood samples to figure out what  they've been eating that'll also give us their   00:09:17.280 --> 00:09:22.080 gender so we know what the sex of these animals  are after we've tagged them um you can't figure   00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.080 out if they're males or females just by looking  at them so we really have to do it genetically   00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:30.240 and then with feathers we can look at  contaminants and also food so we take all   00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:35.840 sorts of information about these animals and once  we do that um then we get ready and let them go. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.040 So we put them back into the  water and then they fly away.   00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:47.680 They actually aren't quite as docile as  i've made it out to be uh here's pictures   00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:52.800 of all of us getting bit very various times  Lance is getting chomped on by a bird here   00:09:52.800 --> 00:09:59.680 Peter's got his arm being grabbed um this this is  uh the person that's really in charge of doing the   00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:04.560 satellite tagging for us Linda Welch uh getting  bitten this is my arm after I've been pretty   00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:11.360 well pounced on by by one of these birds so um  although they're they're really fun to work with   00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:17.840 um they also do not uh they're pretty feisty I  have to say maybe that's the best way to put it.   00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:23.520 So once you do that you release them out and you  can call up all this information on your computer   00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:27.760 so this is my computer and all these red  lines are where birds have been flying around   00:10:28.400 --> 00:10:32.560 so I can just call up on any particular day  on my computer and see not only where my   00:10:32.560 --> 00:10:38.720 bird is on that day um or how many birds you  know we usually tag between 10 and 15 birds   00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.560 so they're all flying around and I can  just take my computer and call it up and   00:10:42.560 --> 00:10:45.840 see where they are and where they've been  so it's a very fun way to do research. 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:54.480 So here you're looking at a bunch of years of our  data that's animated so all these colored lines   00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.880 that you're seeing are different individual birds  in different years so you can see they're doing   00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:03.200 a lot of flying around this is the Gulf of Maine  this is the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary right here   00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:11.040 so the animals are moving around a great deal but  when we take a look at all of this information   00:11:11.040 --> 00:11:17.920 and we add it all together then we can use some  mathematics again and computer programming to   00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:22.800 figure out where they're spending most of their  time so in this particular figure the red areas   00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:28.080 are going to be the highest use areas for the  birds then the low use areas are going to be green   00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:32.800 medium or yellow and of course the white areas  are areas that they're not traveling into at all   00:11:33.520 --> 00:11:37.120 so this is great for management because  for instance if people are looking to   00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:43.280 put in wind turbines or doing any sort of offshore  energy development or anything uh sand mining or   00:11:43.280 --> 00:11:48.160 something like that we can then know where they're  going to put these development places and know if   00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:54.240 it's going to be in a high use area for seabirds  in this place or in this case great shearwaters   00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:59.200 to know how much it might impact them so you know  all of our research is really conservation biology   00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:04.080 so we find out really interesting things about  the birds but then the whole idea of course is   00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:08.400 is to help the conservation of them um so for  instance commercial fisheries will know what   00:12:08.400 --> 00:12:12.720 they're overlapping with commercial fisheries  and where they might be being caught in nets   00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.560 shearwaters are are caught quite often in  fishing nets accidentally by the fishermen   00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.840 so this gives us an idea of where  the birds are and when they're there   00:12:20.400 --> 00:12:25.920 so we can make better management decisions.  And then one of the interesting parts of it   00:12:25.920 --> 00:12:31.760 is also as i was saying in the beginning  um they actually fly from here down to the   00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:39.440 tip of South America uh they migrate a distance  around 17,000 miles 10,000 miles 17,000 kilometers   00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:46.000 um and they do it in you know 25 to 30 days and  then they um you know stay down there and they'll   00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.440 spend the winter down there and then come  back here up to our area for the next year. 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.680 And this is the path they take these are  our birds and they're taking the same path   00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:01.840 every year which is really interesting  um again maybe 10,000 miles 28 to 35 days   00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:08.000 tracking distance but what's interesting to me  is that this panel here you're seeing is wind   00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:13.600 so of course they're in the open ocean there's no  landmarks for them and the wind is always pushing   00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:19.680 them in particular directions uh but you can see  they're still flying a straight line so there   00:13:19.680 --> 00:13:23.840 actually our data will show that this animal for  instance would have been heading in this direction   00:13:25.520 --> 00:13:31.120 and moving in that direction to compensate for  it being pushed off course constantly by the wind   00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:36.720 so this really means that it's got some sort  of a map so again wind pushing it in particular   00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:41.760 directions but the birds are staying on course  which means there's flying in a different heading   00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:46.080 um but staying on course which means they have  a map that we really don't understand right now.   00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:52.640 So here's two different great shear waters that  are migrating at different times but following   00:13:52.640 --> 00:13:57.760 really a very very similar route so again this  indicates to us that they have a map that they're   00:13:57.760 --> 00:14:04.560 following we just don't know what that map is.  That's your kind of quick introduction to great   00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:08.800 shearwaters uh the birds that we're going to  be naming they're one of my favorite birds   00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:13.120 um these are some of the ways that you can be  tracking them with us over time and I think   00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:17.600 people will be giving you more information  about that um twitter is @trackseabirds   00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.240 so that's pretty much your intro to great shear  waters if you have any questions that would   00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.560 be cool happy to answer them as I mentioned  these are somewhat expensive tags and being   00:14:30.560 --> 00:14:35.280 on the water also costs you a fair amount  of money so these are all the places that uh   00:14:35.280 --> 00:14:43.840 provide us funding uh to try to support this  research so I will now minimize my screen   00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:50.160 back to non-sharing let's see we'll do  this. Sheridan: Thank you so much David,   00:14:52.880 --> 00:14:59.840 the fact that like you said the wind is blowing  them all over the place the fact that the wind   00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:03.040 is blowing them all over the place they  don't have a map there are no landmarks   00:15:03.680 --> 00:15:11.120 it's really baffling how they actually find their  way back and forth over the ocean. David: So yeah   00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.600 they they do it with no landmarks it's crazy and  that's one of our goals as scientists is to figure   00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:21.360 out just how the heck do they do that. Right you  know I mean Chelsea is working on her NOLS and you   00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:26.560 know they have some pretty crazy ways of of moving  around and figuring out where they are isn't isn't   00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:30.800 that true Chelsea I remember reading something  about them in the past that they're pretty crazy   00:15:30.800 --> 00:15:36.240 animals too. Chelsea: yeah adults have um a lot  going on in terms of you know figuring out where   00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:42.000 they are um how they like partition themselves  on trees uh so they can all like live together   00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:48.800 regardless of species um as well as like they  look up for different dolap colors and sizes   00:15:49.520 --> 00:15:55.360 um they're all really interesting animals and  um thank you so much for teaching us about   00:15:55.360 --> 00:16:00.080 shearwaters I did not know some of those things  I definitely didn't know about the tube nose. 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:08.080 They are fun but all animals are similar  it's similarly interesting and fun   00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:13.600 so that's why this is such a great career path  right. Sheridan: exactly all right well with   00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:18.880 that wonderful presentation we're going to  jump into these names um so all week we had   00:16:18.880 --> 00:16:25.280 people use the hashtag NameThatShearwater um and  just give us some options on what to name these   00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:31.520 14 um research birds and yeah we're going to go  through the list there's some fun ones there's   00:16:31.520 --> 00:16:40.640 some really you know influential ones so first  on the list we will start with we have Naomi   00:16:41.760 --> 00:16:51.440 um and Naomi can be Campbell it could be Naomi  Osaka but either way beautiful pleasant gentle   00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:59.200 um yeah i think that's going to be like the best  looking shearwater that they may catch for sure   00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:07.200 for sure um the next name is Shearlock Holmes  um i love a good pun if you follow me on twitter   00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:14.400 you know that you know that very well um so  after Sherlock Holmes and hopefully they'll be   00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:20.080 able to help solve some mysteries as you know to  their migration and the ecosystem. Sheridan: yes   00:17:20.080 --> 00:17:28.480 see look at these ties okay um next we have Bessie  so Bessie would be named after Bessie Coleman   00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:34.400 and she was the first African-American woman and  the first Native American woman to hold a pilot's   00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:41.920 license so as these birds are navigating their  way across the ocean and essentially teaching us   00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:47.040 more than we know about flight at this point  yeah hopefully bessie can lead us lead us to   00:17:47.040 --> 00:17:54.560 victory Chelsea: yeah and um she also did air  shows so um looks like we have like a high flyer. 00:17:57.120 --> 00:18:02.320 Next is Ashanti uh named after Ashanti  Johnson who's one of the first Black   00:18:02.320 --> 00:18:08.320 chemical oceanographers um in 2010 she won a  presidential award for excellence in science,   00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:14.000 math, and engineering and she works on diversity  focused initiatives like in academia which is   00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.160 super important um it's part of  why we started Black AF in STEM   00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:21.920 and why we started Black Birders  Week correct. Sheridan: yes   00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:28.240 of course the diversity is everything and the  inclusion is everything um okay i'm glad we   00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:35.840 won in this order because i was a big voucher for  Bonstance one I just think the name is hilarious   00:18:35.840 --> 00:18:42.320 um but the backstory that I heard on Bonstance no  it doesn't have any like actual significance um   00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:49.920 but people have the name Connie c-o-n-n-i-e and  they say that's the shortened version of Constance   00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:54.400 and so someone made the joke well what is the  short version or the long version of Bonnie   00:18:54.400 --> 00:19:01.200 it's Bonstance so i just think it's fun I think  it's hilarious um you know suggested meanings a   00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:10.240 social person um great companion graceful nickname  could be Bonnie um so yeah i love it i love it   00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.920 yeah. Chelsea: and i'm also happy that we went in  um this order because now I get to talk about the   00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:24.720 next name Arliner Arliner Young um who I have done  like several projects on I think my uh professors   00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:30.640 at MSU um when I went there were tired of hearing  about her she's the first African-American woman   00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:37.760 to receive a PhD in zoology um she worked  on radiation with sea urchins structures   00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:45.440 that control salt concentration in paramecium and  hydration and dehydration of living cells um she   00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:52.000 her eyes were damaged by the uv rays from her work  um but she made a lot of important contributions   00:19:52.000 --> 00:20:00.640 um she also worked with our next name choice  coming up here um. Sheridan: yes for that one   00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:07.840 um so Ernest Everett Just but in the name of  keeping it gender fluid we will do E.E. Just   00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:13.360 but this name is named after a marine biologist  and he was the pioneer in studies of embryonic   00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:20.080 development and fertilization and he also did sea  urchins and sand dollars with this research um   00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:27.360 and so he does have links to the marine biology  labs and he also is the founder of omega sci-fi   00:20:27.360 --> 00:20:33.920 at Howard University if you're into fraternities  so EE Just was out here really just founding   00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:41.920 everything at this point so we thought that would  be a great name as. Chelsea: well uh our next name   00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:50.880 is Dioum after Baba Dioum who is a Senegalese  forestry engineer a quote from uh from him is   00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:56.960 in the end we will conserve only what we love  we will love only what we understand and we will   00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:02.800 understand only what we are taught so I think  this is a great name to pick for shearwater who   00:21:02.800 --> 00:21:08.240 know that we're hoping to learn a lot from um and  gain an understanding and once we have that that   00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:13.120 education understanding it's a lot easier to  put more effort and get more people interested   00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:20.720 in conservation and um learning even more about  different species. Sheridan: yes and it's kind of   00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:30.000 like a a phrase for environmentalists to live by  I think so awesome next we have Tuskegee um many   00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:36.160 many naming factors here um during World War  II some of the Tuskegee airmen were the first   00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:41.840 African-American fighter pilots um for the U.S.  Army Air Corps and they trained over the Great   00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:47.200 Lakes and there was six Tuskegee airmen in their  aircrafts um we're lost on those lakes and of   00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:54.080 course are commemorated now further heroism  as well as we have Tuskegee um University. 00:21:55.600 --> 00:22:02.240 So recently there's a little bit of backstory  here as well um so recently archaeologists have   00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:07.760 been working um kind of to find these aircrafts  they haven't been found this entire time um to   00:22:07.760 --> 00:22:12.400 honor the pilot that you know put their lives on  the line and the first African Americans to put   00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:19.120 um be pilots for the air corps so one lost  Tuskegee airman Lieutenant Frank Moody   00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:25.840 um he was killed in his Bell P-39Q Airacobra I  say Airacobra I'm hoping I pronounced that right   00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:36.640 um but it crashed in Lake Huron in 1944 um so the  archaeologist Wayne Lusardi um and partners from   00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:42.960 the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and part  of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research   00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:50.320 um are the ones that are currently working  to excavate and find these aircrafts um so   00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.120 great name for a shearwater  as we're working with the   00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:59.360 offices. Chelsea: yeah it's a really important  part of history so I hope that um they'll be   00:22:59.360 --> 00:23:04.560 able to find as as much as possible so we can  properly honor them for their contributions   00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:11.200 the next name is a really fun one I think  it's my second favorite maybe Britney Shears   00:23:11.760 --> 00:23:18.000 um iconic that's all i have to say. Sheridan:  that's all you need to say you know Britney spears   00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.880 okay Britney Shears I will definitely be following  Britney Shears and Bonstance once we get through   00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.720 the list we should go through who we're gonna  we're gonna pay attention to oh yeah definitely   00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:34.240 all right next we have Jemison Mae Carol Jemison  is an American engineer physician and former   00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:40.160 NASA astronaut um she was the first Black woman  to travel into space of course and she served   00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:47.840 as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle  Endeavour so Mae Jemison Mae Carol Jemison another   00:23:47.840 --> 00:23:55.120 pioneer another African-American just paving  the way for a lot of astronauts um physicists   00:23:55.120 --> 00:24:01.440 out here so yeah Black in astro is coming up soon  so. Chelsea: yeah look out for Black on astro   00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:11.680 um next we have another fun one um i'm getting all  the fun ones Birdy McBirdFace shout out to Boaty   00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:22.640 McBoatface yes Sheridan: because why not why not  I support Birdy McBirdFace um next we have Shearly   00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:29.360 Temple Shearly Temple I have to like make sure you  know y'all get your puns um after Shirley Temple   00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:33.680 and you know it's funny a fun fact Shirley Temple  is actually like one of my favorite drinks um   00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:41.440 so perfect I love it. Chelsea: yeah and then the  last name is Shuri or Shear-i however you want   00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:48.960 to pronounce it but um it is inspired by Shuri  who is um the sister to the Black Panther and um   00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:55.040 depending on what storyline you're following she  became Black Panther for some time herself um. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:04.000 Right and um she is she's a Marvel herself  get it because yes anyway that's a bad   00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:10.000 joke. Sheridan: but no such thing as bad jokes  somebody laugh. Chelsea: Shuri Shuri is amazing   00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:16.720 and um I hope that the shearwater named after  Shuri is going to be just as amazing and clever   00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:22.960 so um it has a lot to live up to but i'm sure  it can do it. Sheridan: yes um and that that   00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:28.320 concludes the actual list now like I said  the ones that I am going to be following   00:25:28.320 --> 00:25:35.920 we will tell you how to best follow these birds  um I know Bonstance has my heart i'm definitely   00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:42.400 I think EE Just also is going to be doing  some great things out here um and a third one   00:25:43.840 --> 00:25:50.240 I might think Dioum like I really feel like  Dioum has a great name to live up to and   00:25:51.120 --> 00:25:57.520 they're gonna show us good stuff what are your top  three? Chelsea: um number one is Alriner obviously   00:25:57.520 --> 00:26:01.920 um I feel like Arliner is going to  be the best and longest lived uh   00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:10.160 shearwater out there um gonna contribute a lot  to research I'm already very proud of Arliner   00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:17.680 um I think number two I'm gonna have to go with  the Britney Shears um that's gonna be an iconic   00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:29.040 bird just the range okay the range and then my  last one this is a tough choice I don't know how   00:26:29.040 --> 00:26:34.320 you chose that these names are good they're very  good names okay i'm gonna have to go with Naomi. 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:41.440 fair oh both Naomi's. Sheridan: both  icons right you know I might have to   00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:47.040 name my daughter Naomi just because like clearly  clearly clearly greatness comes from this name   00:26:47.840 --> 00:26:52.240 after like talking about it right and  the great shearwater named after Naomi   00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:57.280 will also bring us greatness um so ways that  you you all can follow up with these birds   00:26:57.280 --> 00:27:04.640 um go to the Stellwagen Bank National Marine  Sanctuary website um it will be in the links and   00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:10.560 the info is on a homepage will direct you to the  internal page um so you all can go straight there   00:27:11.120 --> 00:27:16.560 um and it will be updated on a regular basis maybe  every two weeks or so um so that way you can check   00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:21.040 in and Chelsea and I will be tweeting about  our birds that we want to follow. Chelsea: yeah   00:27:21.040 --> 00:27:26.560 we're definitely gonna keep up with them um and  occasionally we may do some like update tweets   00:27:26.560 --> 00:27:31.760 from the BAFiS twitter account uh look out for  that because we are genuinely really excited   00:27:31.760 --> 00:27:39.760 to follow all of these birds um you can also get  updates on the twitter account um we will drop the   00:27:39.760 --> 00:27:45.440 link for that as well the twitter and the facebook  page um and additional info on the twitter account   00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:53.840 @trackseabirds yeah and with that what is yours  what are your tags you gotta follow Chelsea   00:27:53.840 --> 00:28:02.880 at oh yeah follow me on twitter @chelseaherpss  um instagram is @outtochelsea and um   00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:10.400 you can check out my amazing artwork and uh  yes Chelseaherps on redbubble.com um I draw   00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:16.480 anoles and sometimes I draw other animals as well.  Sheridan: I say get her stickers I have them on   00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:25.760 all my things uh laptop water bottle my popsicles  I love the popsicle ones but anyway um my name is   00:28:25.760 --> 00:28:34.880 Sheridan Alford follow me on all socials @beanie  b-e-a-n-i-e jean j-e-a-n underscore on everything   00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:40.800 so beanie jean and underscore um and yeah we'll  keep it up and don't forget to also follow   00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:51.280 um NOAA n-o-a-a um especially the Stellwagen  Bank um National Marine Sanctuary and as well as   00:28:51.280 --> 00:28:58.640 the twitter um @sanctuaries um for the  marine sanctuaries and there you go   00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:07.440 I think that's it do we have any questions we'll  answer any questions um in the chat as well   00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:12.400 so thank you guys for joining us David  thank you for your amazing presentation   00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:17.760 Chelsea thank you for joining me David: and and  thank you for naming these birds it makes it   00:29:17.760 --> 00:29:22.560 way more fun for us and you know calling  them by numbers isn't very interesting   00:29:22.560 --> 00:29:28.160 so yeah much more fun and uh thank you for  doing this with us it's been a blast. Chelsea:   00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:39.840 yeah thank you so much for having us and  we'll keep up all right bye everybody bye.