In hopes of determining how the drought has affected white pelicans in California, a group of volunteers will join a UC Davis research team this summer at the pelicans' Klamath Basin breeding grounds in Northern California. Daniel W. Anderson, chair of the campus's wildlife and fisheries biology department, will lead the team of seven volunteers and two undergraduate student assistants as part of the University of California Research Expeditions Program, which matches interested members of the general public with university scientists. Working out of UC's Tulelake Field Station, the group will trap white pelicans and equip them with radio monitors to track the birds' migratory routes and daily activity patterns. Anderson and graduate student Leopoldo Moreno speculate that the drought has contributed to an unusually high number of deaths among the white pelican population and may have altered the birds' migratory patterns. Reporters should contact Anderson and the UREP group at the Tulelake Field Station from June 23 through July 6 and from July 20 through Aug. 3.