Chiswell Project season wrap up – 2017

We had another successful year of remote video monitoring of the Chiswell Island Steller sea lion rookery!

Spectacled Eider Duckling Update

Our first spectacled eider ducklings hatched around Summer Solstice and we have been rocking ever since trying to understand the effect of salinity on duckling growth!

Animals on the Move

We have posted many blogs about our fieldwork, in-house, and collaborators’ research projects on 60N. But we haven’t talked much about the other big part of doing research: data and data analysis.

Training Arctic Seals to Save Ice-Dependent Species

Check out this new video to learn about the type of information being learned about ice seals from our collaborators at the Long Marine Lab, University of California Santa Cruz, and how this knowledge will help us better understand their health and physiology.

Chiswell Chronicles: June 19, 2017

This week we talk about what the males on the colony are getting up to, and highlight two females: Dee and Anita.

Eavesdropping on spotted seals

Male spotted seals like Amak and Tunu may vocalize to attract mates or to establish dominance. Up until now, little has been known about the vocal behavior of this species…but these two seals are helping us—yet again—to learn more.