Lightning Talk on Palmer LTER Science
PAL PI Dr. Oscar Schofield recently gave a lightning talk on the current status of the Palmer Station LTER at the 2023 LTER Science Council Meeting. Check it out below.
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PAL PI Dr. Oscar Schofield recently gave a lightning talk on the current status of the Palmer Station LTER at the 2023 LTER Science Council Meeting. Check it out below.
In April, the podcast series The Pulse from WHYY in Philadelphia featured an episode about Taking the Temperature of Climate Science. One segment featured our own Megan Cimino and her work studying the Adélie penguin population around Palmer Station. Also featured were Mark Moline and Matthew Breece from the University of Delaware, who are using […]
As the glaciers in Antarctica and especially along the West Antarctic Peninsula melt, it is important to understand where the meltwater is going, and how it will affect the oceanic ecosystem. In the latest issue of Frontiers in Marine Science, the PAL team describes how remote sensing data can be used to more easily to […]
Do you love 1-D ocean-sea ice models? Then check out the latest paper by Ben, Darren, Scott, Doug and Sharon. Kudos to the team! For more, check out the abstract and citation below. Processes driving changes in sea-ice seasonality and sea-ice thickness were explored for a ‘warm-shelf’ region along the West Antarctic Peninsula using vertically […]
This week’s issue of Nature includes a new article from PAL LTER team members Rebecca Trinh, Hugh Ducklow, Debbie Steinberg, and Bill Fraser. Congratulations to the team! For more, check out the abstract and citation below. The export of carbon from the ocean surface and storage in the ocean interior is important in the modulation […]
Congrats to Avishek Dutta and the team for their recent paper in Frontiers in Microbiology. Here’s the abstract… The Antarctic marine environment is a dynamic ecosystem where microorganisms play an important role in key biogeochemical cycles. Despite the role that microbes play in this ecosystem, little is known about the genetic and metabolic diversity of […]
Four years is a long time to wait, but last week, the waiting was over, as we held the first in-person PAL-LTER and Friends Science Workshop since 2019. On Tuesday, the PI team met to discuss the latest field season and to prepare for the challenges of next one. And then on Wednesday and Thursday, […]
Kudos to PAL researcher Darren Roberts, whose photo of an Adélie Penguin was featured on the March 2023 issue of Ecosphere, the journal of the Ecological Society of America. The photo was chosen to feature a recent paper, Long-term patterns in ecosystem phenology near Palmer Station, Antarctica, from the perspective of the Adélie penguin, by […]
Last month, the amount of sea ice around Antarctic broke a new record low, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center. This year’s minimum extent is the lowest recorded since 1979, and it broke the previous record low set just last year. Following the low, and the peak of austral summer, the sea […]
It’s hard to believe the 2023 PAL field season is halfway over, and the main research cruise is already back at port. But that doesn’t mean our outreach work is done. Far from it, we’re just getting started! The goal of the PAL outreach team is to bring Antarctic research to classrooms across the country, […]
Congratulations to Megan Cimino and many other members of the PAL team who just had a new paper published in Ecosphere. Here’s a quick snippet… We show that sea ice retreat and increasing photoperiod in the spring trigger a sequence of events from mid-November to mid-February, including Adélie penguin clutch initiation, snow melt, calm conditions […]
Educators: Sign-up now to join Polar Scientists on a research expedition to Antarctica We are currently recruiting 12-18 educators and their students (grades 5-9) to join the Palmer Station Long-term Ecological Research Program (PAL LTER) team on their 2023 field season in Antarctica. Students will learn about Antarctic food web ecology and how scientists are using […]
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