Emperor penguins marching toward extinction
In a great article by Kristine Liao at Audubon Magazine, my colleague Stef Jenouvrier and I are interviewed about our recent paper in...
Emperor penguin research 2018 - the field work blog
Find our full blog, created and maintained by Dr. Sara Labrousse, here. We awoke on October 31, 2018 (Halloween day!) to fantastic news:...
Spot Our Seals in the Ross Sea!
Weddell seals: Antarctica’s extreme mammal Weddell seals are one of Antarctica’s icons. Besides being undeniably charismatic, they are...
White Walkers: a warning letter from north of The Wall
As part of Matt Shipman's Science Carnival, I was invited to write a blog about the science of the Game of Thrones. Along with many...
Cougars making a comeback in Midwest
Photo by Johanna Turner of Cougarmagic A new model, published in Ecological Modelling, suggests the big cats will soon recolonize...
Adélie penguin census - a first
For the first time, researchers have counted all the world's Adélie penguins—a sprightly seabird considered a bellwether of climate...
Emperor penguins may move in response to climate change
Researchers have long thought that emperor penguins were philopatric, meaning that they return to the same location each year to nest....
Climate change winners - Adélie penguins
Most news about climate change does not bode well for the creatures that make their home in the polar regions of the earth. But one type...
Cougars are recolonizing the Midwest
Cougars (Puma concolor) have not lived in Oklahoma, Missouri and other midwestern states since the beginning of the 20th century. But now...
First ever census of emperor penguins
UK, US and Australian scientists used satellite technology to trace and count the iconic birds, finding them to number almost 600,000....