Description: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking four (4) volunteers beginning November 9th, 2015 and continuing through June/July, 2016 to join the 11th expedition to Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge as a part of the Crazy Ant Strike Team (CAST XI). The primary mission is to continue working towards eradication of the Yellow Crazy Ant (YCA), Anoplolepis gracilipes. These efforts have been ongoing since August 2010 and numbers have been reduced by 99%. Seabirds have begun to return, but YCA continue to persist on the island and negatively impact ground nesting birds.

Johnston Atoll is located in the central Pacific Ocean, 717 nautical miles west-southwest of Honolulu, and is uninhabited, except for the four volunteers and one cre