Celeste Flahaven looks through a scope while on Seal Island, Maine.

Celeste Flahaven

2023 Communications and Outreach Assistant, Seabird Institute

Having lived and worked as a farmer in several states in the Northeast and the South, Celeste has developed an appreciation for the ecology of many places. In the summer of 2023, she worked for National ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s Seabird Institute in midcoast Maine where she wrote about the osprey and seabird live cams on Hog Island and Seal Island, respectively.

Celeste graduated with a B.A. in Literature from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Articles by Celeste Flahaven

A Razorbill stands on rocks with fish in its beak.
A Spectacle of Life on Seal Island
September 11, 2023 — Seabirds were once extirpated from the Gulf of Maine's Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Today, thanks in part to ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s Seabird Institute, it's the site of several breeding seabird colonies.