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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. Our purpose was to find out how many whales are… {Read More »}


Sediment Trap Recovery & Redeployment

By Maria Vernet · January 10, 2008 · comments No comments yet
Greetings Everyone!! Thursday (January 10th) was a very busy and exciting day on board with the recovery and redeployment of the sediment trap, a key component of the Palmer LTER Microbial and Biogeochemistry Group (B045).… {Read More »}


Phytoplankton from Space

By Maria Vernet · January 9, 2008 · comments 2 comments
PALMER STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Today I would like to show you the Palmer LTER study region in the context of the entire Antarctic continent, and one of the data sets that is collected by satellites. Phytoplankton… {Read More »}


Sea Birds

By Maria Vernet · January 9, 2008 · comments No comments yet
The Palmer LTER is organized into research components studying ranges of organisms from microbes to top predators. Today's pictures focus on the seabird component (B-013) of the Palmer LTER Summer Cruise. One of their responsibilities… {Read More »}


Thanksgiving at the Penguin Colony

By David Ainley · November 23, 2007 · comments No comments yet
CAPE ROYDS, ANTARCTICA-- Well, let’s see, it was chicken and oriental rice for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday eve, and a rousing blizzard outside. Only in the evening, though. As I mentioned before, there's a lot of… {Read More »}


Penguins on the Scale

By David Ainley · November 20, 2007 · comments No comments yet
We’ve now got our stuff set up, including the weighbridge. This is an apparatus that identifies penguins (from the computer chip we inject under their skin) when they walk through a hoop antenna, and… {Read More »}


Adventures with Adélie Penguins at Cape Royds in the 2007–08 Austral Summer

By David Ainley · November 16, 2007 · comments No comments yet
We have set out in the 12th year of a project in which we seek to understand why Adélie Penguin populations have been increasing in the Ross Sea since the early 1980s, and why the… {Read More »}

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