Last season’s difficulties for Bering Strait auklets may indicate changing climate

Crested Auklets (Photo by Josh Keaton/NOAA)
Following changes in climate variability, one University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor has discovered surprising changes in the Little Diomede auklet population.
Working at Bethel’s Kuskokwim campus, Hector Douglas has been studying the crested auklet’s fluorescent pigment for more than a decade.
His most recent study on the pigment started in the summer of 2015. Douglas describes the seabirds that year as normal, saying, &ld