At the beginning of March, Scott gave two informal talks on the ecology and history of the Peruvian guano islands as part of the Naturalist Nights series at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and in Carbondale for Roaring Fork Audubon. He revisited stories of field work from his PhD studying seabirds along the Humboldt Current including the blue-footed booby and Peruvian booby.
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