Due to the generosity of a Friends of Midway Atoll member, every membership or donation is matched dollar-for-dollar through December 31, 2024!
While government workers sit behind a desk, a colony of homo sapiens do the day-to-day sweat labor. Your membership supports flight cost to Midway for this winter's bird counters, a fancy camera lens to Dan the photographer—so he can share Kuaihelani with you; an after-work hour stipend for Nikki the blog writer; and a $1,000 stipend goes to every 6-month volunteer!
You can also show them your appreciation by simply becoming a member through a separate donation. Give wildlife a fighting chance to thrive amidst the impacts that threaten Kuaihelani (the backbone of the heavens)!
“Ocean with David Attenborough” Features Midway Atoll
“Ocean with David Attenborough” takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. In the film the celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker, who is now 99 years old, reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery.…
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Volunteer Crew + Co-Leads Spring/Summer 2025
Three Fish and Wildlife Service volunteers and two paid Volunteer Co-Coordinators are currently working tirelessly all three islands within Midway Atoll. The six month volunteers include Owen Sobel, Emily McGuirt and Micah Kimura. The two Co-Leads are Dan Rapp and Molly Henling, whose positions are now generously supported, through September 2025, by members and donors…
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Your Sunday Morning Moment on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll)
Grab your cup of coffee every Sunday morning and enjoy Fish and Wildlife Service volunteers' insight and imagery. The most recent posts have been crafted by the current 2025 six-month volunteers, which include Emily McGuirt, Molly Henling, Micah Kimura and Owen Sobel. Previous posts by Joe Owen are also still available to view. Joe worked…
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Dan Rapp's New Volunteer Position
Dan Rapp, known as the man behind the camera and current FWS volunteer and biologist, is now currently serving as a co-crew lead for the volunteers. This position was cut from the Midway Atoll Refuge staffing chart when a previous 4-year term Volunteer Coordinator position ended in Spring. Dan is tremendously grateful to be able…
From Southwest Virginia, Meet Emily McGuirt
My name is Emily McGuirt, and I am originally from Southwest Virginia! This is my 5th season as a Wildlife/Field Technician, and I am privileged that these positions have taken me all across the U.S. I started my field journey during undergrad where I was an intern in Michigan for the Forest Service. I completed…
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Introducing FWS Volunteer Owen Sobel
“Hello, my name is Owen Sobel. I'm originally from Long Island, New York, and I graduated from Franklin & Marshall College last year with a degree in Environmental Studies and Economics. My past fieldwork experience includes working at a fish hatchery in Arizona, a farmland trust in Pennsylvania, and spending last summer in Sequoia National…
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Your gift also…
- Helps us share with you what is happening on Midway Atoll!
- Funds field cameras and an aviary to monitor endangered species.
- Supports actions to keep the nest site of Wisdom, and the world's largest Bonin petrel and albatross colony, safe from attacks by mice or spread of aggressive noxious weeds.
Article written by Ann Bell