Same name but 2 different processes...the albatross also uses ground effect which has nothing to do with the type of flying done to accomplish that record. Plus the albatross doesn't use the back side of a roter which is a vertical downdraft created by the wind curling under as it goes over the mountain / hill...
http://www.dynamic-soaring-for-birds.co.uk/"Dynamic soaring is soaring without a vertical component of air movement. The albatross uses the horizontal wind to keep itself in the air."Neither a roter nor ground effect are needed for either the albatross or the rc models. All that is required is a horizontal wind gradient... a difference in horizontal velocity of the wind at two different altitudes. I can be done at any altitude (even by the jet stream). Dynamic soaring only needs that one variable (a material difference in wind speed above and below a given altitude).
Ground effect, roters, thermals or any rotating vertical wind patters have nothing to do with it for either the albatross, a sailplane, an rc model or any other flying being or object.
Just turn, go into, turn and come out of the boundary layer between the horizontal wind gradient. Simple as that.
If you'll reread your original post on this re thermals and such you'll see that it makes no sense with respect to the technique used by the albatross:
What the albatross does is not dynamic soaring. 
.. It's thermaling. Dynamic soaring needs a roter and that can only exist on the backside of a mountain/hill.
"A thermal column (or thermal) is a column of rising air." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal
Now, more than nuff said.
