Our results have been published on PLoS ONE !!!

 

A grounded wedge-tailed shearwater rescued during morning road surveys in Waimanalo, O'ahu.

HPU graduate Jennifer Urmston has published the first chapter of her MS thesis.  Working with U.S.F.W.S. special agent Keith Swindle and her HPU advisor (Dr. David Hyrenbach), Jenn analyzed 8 years (2012–2019) of observations of road-killed shearwaters along the Kalanianaʻole Highway on Oʻahu to compare mortality before (2012–15) and after (2016–19) a transition in highway lighting from unshielded high-pressure sodium (HPS) to full-cutoff light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights.  Altogether, the interaction between moon illumination and wind speed was the most important predictor, suggesting that more shearwaters are grounded during nights with low moon and strong winds. The lack of an increase in mortality after the change from HPS to shielded LED streetlights suggests the new streetlights did not worsen the light pollution impacts on wedge-tailed shearwaters on Southeast Oʻahu.   

You can download this open-source paper here: 

 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265832