Biology | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

Entrance of the Whales

By David Ainley · January 14, 2008 ·

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.… {Read More »}

Sediment Trap Recovery & Redeployment

By Maria Vernet · January 10, 2008 ·

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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… {Read More »}

Phytoplankton from Space

By Maria Vernet · January 9, 2008 ·

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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… {Read More »}

Sea Birds

By Maria Vernet · January 9, 2008 ·

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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)… {Read More »}

Thanksgiving at the Penguin Colony

By David Ainley · November 23, 2007 ·

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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… {Read More »}

Penguins on the Scale

By David Ainley · November 20, 2007 ·

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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… {Read More »}