Dr. David Anderson, of Wake Forrest University, has been tracking Laysan albatross as they fly off from Kilauea Point in search of food for their chicks. He does this through the use of small radio transmitters taped between their wings. Orbiting Argos System satellites pick up the signals and relay them to a processing station in France before the coordinates are sent by e-mail to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Here Dr. Anderson and Patty Fernandez, a graduate student in biology, distribute the information by e-mail to school classes participating in The Albatross Project by tracking "their " albatross. Thousands of school children in Hawaii and across the world follow the birds, along with Anderson and his research team, through the project's e-mail bulletin board and website.

To see Dr. Anderson's Albatross Project web site, click on the logo below -