Penguins | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

No Sea Ice in Sight

By David Ainley · January 13, 2008 ·

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… {Read More »}

Snowed In

By David Ainley · January 12, 2008 ·

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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… {Read More »}

Melting Glacial Torrents

By David Ainley · December 23, 2007 ·

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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)… {Read More »}

Hatching Eggs

By David Ainley · December 17, 2007 ·

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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… {Read More »}

Incubating Penguin Eggs and Melting Ice

By David Ainley · December 3, 2007 ·

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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.… {Read More »}

Whales and Penguins

By David Ainley · November 26, 2007 ·

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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… {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 »}

Setting up Royds Penguin Camp

By David Ainley · November 17, 2007 ·

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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… {Read More »}