[1] In 1896, the year that Seale would have graduated from Stanford in zoology,[2] he was picked by Professor Jordan, along with fellow student Norman B. Scofield, to go to Point Barrow in Alaska.
[1] Before returning to Stanford Seale collected sea birds along the Alaskan coast on behalf of the British Museum.
"[2] In 1899 Seale returned to Stanford, only to leave again to take the job of field naturalist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.
[1] He knew more about Polynesia and its fish and fisheries than anyone else in the United States, publishing several important papers on the subject.
[2] On August 23, 1904 Seale wrote a letter to the famed naturalist John Muir, in Martinez, California.