Congratulations to the Gulf Watch Alaska team members who led and contributed to the seabird die-off paper published this week in PLoS ONE (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226087). A wide variety of news media have prepared articles and stories about this publications. A short list of the media attention includes the following:

Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massive-marine-heat-wave-blob-unprecedented-seabird-die-off

New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229980-marine-heatwave-known-as-the-blob-killed-a-million-us-seabirds/

Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15012020/seabird-death-ocean-heat-wave-blob-pacific-alaska-common-murre

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/15/us/ap-us-pacific-seabird-mass-die-off.html

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/researchers-tie-massive-pacific-seabird-die-off-to-heat-wave/2020/01/15/8f4f3c6a-37ca-11ea-a1ff-c48c1d59a4a1_story.html

Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/blob-us-west-coast-million-seabirds-study-1482358

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/16/hot-blob-ocean-seabirds-killed-new-zealand-north-america

BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51140869

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/world/blob-seabird-study-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/16/blob-hot-water-killed-million-seabirds-pacific-2015-and-2016/4491618002/

Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/a-new-study-death-of-1-million-common-murres/

Anchorage Daily News: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2020/01/15/pacific-seabird-die-off-linked-to-a-warm-water-blob-study-says/

Alaska Public Media: https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/01/15/massive-sea-bird-die-off-linked-to-food-scarcity-during-the-blob-new-study-says/

KTUU: https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Researchers-tie-massive-Pacific-seabird-die-off-to-heat-wave-567012951.html

LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-01-15/seabird-deaths-2015-pacific-ocean-blob-warm-water-murres-study

ABC13 (Houston, Texas): https://abc13.com/weather/researchers-tie-massive-pacific-seabird-die-off-to-heat-wave/5855848/

The journal citation with the contributing GulfWatch Alaska team members are highlighted. The diversity of authors and their affiliations highlights the collaborative nature of our long-term monitoring program.

Piatt, J. F., J. K. Parrish, H. M. Renner, S. K. Schoen, T. Jones, M. L. Arimitsu, K. J. Kuletz, B. Bodenstein, M. García-Reyes, R. S. Duerr, R. M. Corcoran, R. Kaler, G. McChesney, R. Golightly, H. Coletti, R. M. Suryan, H. Burgess, J. Lindsey, K. Lindquist, P. Warzybok, J. Jahnke, J. Roletto, and W. J. Sydeman. 2020. Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016. PLoS ONE.