Midway Atoll

Baseline for beached marine debris on Sand Island, Midway Atoll.

Baseline measurements were made of the amount and weight of beached marine debris on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, June 2008-July 2010. On 23 surveys, 32,696 total debris objects (identifiable items and pieces) were collected; total weight was 740.4 kg. Seventy-two percent of the total was pieces; 91% of the pieces were made of plastic materials. Pieces were composed primarily of polyethylene and ...

Causes of mortality of albatross chicks at Midway Atoll.

As part of an investigation of the effect of plastic ingestion on seabirds in Hawaii, we necropsied the carcasses of 137 Laysan albatross (Diomedea immutabilis) chicks from Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean during the summer of 1987. Selected tissues were collected for microbiological, parasitological, toxicological or histopathological examinations. Dehydration was the most common cause of dea...

Depth analysis of Midway Atoll using Quickbird multi-spectral imaging over variable substrates

Medicine on the Midway: Midway News

affects onset of Alzheimer’s A research group based at the University of Chicago has found that an enriched environment — in this case more chances to exercise, explore and interact with others — can dramatically reduce the biological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in mice that are genetically predisposed to the disorder. The researchers reported in Cell that mice raised in a deluxe setting —...

Necrotizing enteritis as a cause of mortality in Laysan albatross, Diomedea immutabilis, chicks on Midway Atoll, Hawaii.

A necropsy survey of Laysan albatross, Diomedea immutabilis, chicks on Midway Atoll in June 1993, 1994, and 1995 revealed 54% (21/39), 67% (49/71), and 93% (15/16), respectively, to have enteritis as the most severe pathologic finding. The lesion was limited to the ileum, ceca, and large intestine. We were unable to attribute a single infectious etiology to this lesion. Many birds with enteriti...