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The Early Returns: We and the Penguins

By David Ainley · November 24, 2008 · comments 1 comment
CAPE ROYDS, ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA-- This season, Jean came down to McMurdo Station a few weeks early with the idea of setting up a time-lapse camera at Cape Royds to record the complete cycle of colony formation as penguins returned from their wintering area...
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Penguins in a Changing Climate

By Jean Pennycook · November 19, 2008 · comments 5 comments
MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- I've made it down to Antarctica for another season of studying how penguins are coping with global climate change. In this video, I introduce the work we are doing and give a preview of what I'll be reporting on over the next few months...
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Entrance of the Whales

By David Ainley · January 14, 2008 · comments 4 comments
Today we made a flight by helo along the fast ice edge and into the ice channel being made by the Oden, a Swedish icebreaker.…
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No Sea Ice in Sight

By David Ainley · January 13, 2008 · comments 4 comments
CAPE ROYDS, ANTARCTICA-- Since coming back from Cape Bird it’s been very gray and windy here at Cape Royds. It has been blowing 20 knots…
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Snowed In

By David Ainley · January 12, 2008 · comments No comments yet
We just weathered two, plus, days of ‘white out’. That’s when there’s so much snow in the air that you can’t see more than a…
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Melting Glacial Torrents

By David Ainley · December 23, 2007 · comments No comments yet
CAPE BIRD, ANTARCTICA-- We paid a visit to Cape Bird to begin a pilot project to assess the hemoglobin and hematocrit (red blood cell count)…
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Hatching Eggs

By David Ainley · December 17, 2007 · comments 4 comments
CAPE ROYDS, ANTARCTICA-- Today the first eggs hatched here at Cape Royds, a few days later than the timing of this event last year. The…
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Incubating Penguin Eggs and Melting Ice

By David Ainley · December 3, 2007 · comments No comments yet
The penguins are deep in thought incubating their eggs. The fast ice that we can see out our front door is beginning to break apart.…
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Weddell Seals in Erebus Bay

By David Ainley · November 28, 2007 · comments 4 comments
Today we conducted an aerial survey of Weddell seals in Erebus Bay. Our project doesn’t usually spend much time observing seals, other than leopard seals…
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Whales and Penguins

By David Ainley · November 26, 2007 · comments 3 comments
I guess I might as well show you, the reader, what the view is from the other direction. This picture wasn’t taken from the…
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