4:30 p.m. I agree: Adelie Penguins just look adorably hopeless when they totter around on the snow. But don’t underestimate their tenacity – or their hiking skills, as Grant Ballard, of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, showed today.
In March 2000, the world’s largest iceberg broke off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It was larger [...]
3:00 p.m. Joel Heath, a recent Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, spent his winters in Hudson Bay studying Common Eiders feeding in the few specks of open water that were left.
As if that wasn’t cold enough, he managed to record some amazing underwater video of eiders diving to the bottom, collecting mussels and urchins (which [...]
Most scientific meetings are so huge there’s no choice but to hold them deep in the bowels of some oversized hotel in some major city.
The ISBE meetings are a breath of fresh air. They’re taking place on Cornell’s campus, in the height of a glorious upstate New York summer. Walks to the meeting take you [...]
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