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No Sea Ice in Sight

By David Ainley · January 13, 2008 · comments 3 comments
Since coming back from Cape Bird it’s been very gray and windy here at Cape Royds. It has been blowing 20 knots at least, and often the wind has been much stronger. Climate change predictions… {Read More »}


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 few meters ahead, especially if you’re located where there is… {Read More »}


Hatching Eggs

By David Ainley · December 17, 2007 · comments 4 comments
Today the first eggs hatched here at Cape Royds, a few days later than the timing of this event last year. The colony is eerily quiet. Seems like there should be some young birds beginning… {Read More »}


Whales and Penguins

By David Ainley · November 26, 2007 · comments 1 comment
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 RacTent, which is hiding behind a hill and snowdrift to… {Read More »}


Thanksgiving at the Penguin Colony

By David Ainley · November 23, 2007 · comments No comments yet
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 open water in… {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 »}


Setting up Royds Penguin Camp

By David Ainley · November 17, 2007 · comments 1 comment
Two of us, Jean Pennycook (a science teacher) and I, arrived at Cape Royds, landing by helicopter chock full of food boxes, camping gear, and scientific equipment. Back in the cargo portion of the helo,… {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 »}