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Avian Island in Pictures

By Maria Vernet · February 4, 2008 · comments No comments yet
Each year on the PAL-LTER summer cruise, members of the seabird group (B-013) spend 5 days working on Avian Island. Avian Island is located just off the southern tip of Adelaide Island, south of the… {Read More »}


Marine Mammals

By Maria Vernet · January 24, 2008 · comments 1 comment
Each year on the cruise, we are privileged to have many encounters with marine mammals -- mammals that live and feed primarily in the ocean. Mammals originally evolved on land and a subset later adapted… {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 »}


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 that prey on penguins, but last summer we submitted a… {Read More »}


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 RacTent, which is hiding behind a hill and snowdrift to… {Read More »}

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