SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Declining daylight is a concern to many at this time of year as we turn our clocks back one hour and experience a stepwise decrease in late afternoon daylight while preparing for seven more weeks of increasing darkness. Day length in Seattle is now down to less than ten hours but is about [...]
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 (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Guest blogger: David Wright, Luna Sea Films COOPER ISLAND, ALASKA — My flight arrived in Barrow, Alaska, on what the locals said was the best day in the last ten years. Blue [...]  (7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5) Loading ...COOPER ISLAND, ALASKA — During this part of the black guillemot nesting cycle, while up to 120 pairs incubate eggs in nest cases, birds are active and visible in the colony only from approximately midnight to noon. The birds not attending eggs spend the other half of the day feeding offshore, returning to the island [...] (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Here’s a short trailer of Greenland, a play about climate change. If you missed the full story take a look at An Interview with the writer of Greenland, The BBC: Climate change and art, and Watching the world melt away on the London stage.  (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5) Loading ...Oct. 10, 2010 — The 2010 field ended on August 28th. It started with high expectations but it is easy to feel positive at 71 degrees north in mid-June because of the abundance of light. When I arrive on the island there are 24-hours of high-angle sunlight with few clouds and nearly complete ice cover surrounding [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...For nearly 35 years George Divoky has been returning to Cooper Island, a small, low strip of desolate land close to Barrow, AK. Initially he went there simply to study Black Guillemots, but as – over the decades – he tracked the dates of their arrival and the new chicks hatching, he realized he was [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cooper Island, Alaska, Aug. 27, 2009 — What seems like a long,long time ago,black guillemots on Cooper Island had the best of all possible worlds. The summer snow-free period was increasing annually, providing breeding birds with more time to raise their young, and the Arctic pack ice was close enough offshore that there was a [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cooper Island, Alaska, Aug. 22, 2009 — Last Monday evening near the end of a rainy stormy day, I called Lewis Brower, who would be my transportation to Barrow, to let him know that I hoped to see him on Wednesday when winds were predicted to be close to 10 mph. All day Monday wind [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cooper Island, Alaska, Aug. 14, 2009 — This summer I find myself looking at images obtained over the past month on Cooper Island and thinking “what is wrong with these pictures?” But I know that the images of polar bears walking around the colony, sleeping on the beach and approaching the campsite, things I could [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cooper Island, Alaska, Aug. 12, 2009 — Of all the questions people ask me about guillemots, one of the least common is "What the heck does ‘guillemot’ mean?". This surprises me, since I would think that would be one of the first things people would wonder about the bird. It turns out that "guillemot" is [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
 
Penelope graduated from the University of Washington with a BS in Environmental Science and Resource Management and she has worked for the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) project. During her time at COASST she also worked for the Friends of Cooper Island, seeing the numerical changes of the Arctic as she entered over 30 years of George Divoky’s data into Excel Spreadsheets. In October of 2010 she made her way back to Antarctica, this time she left her mop and bucket behind, and worked as a Field Technician on a long-term penguin monitoring study. Currently she is working for Friends of Cooper Island and will, for the first time, be on Cooper Island putting in Polar Bear proof nest boxes and banding adult breeding birds.
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