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Field updates: Argentina, September 2023

Written by Dr. Dee Boersma The ongoing pinniped (seals and walruses) die-off on Peninsula Valdés is catastrophic. Our contacts in Argentina–two local veterinarians (Marci Uhart and Ralph Vanstreels), and Claudia Campagna of WCS–tell us that hundreds and potentially thousands of sea lions and elephant seals have died. Avian flu (more widely known as bird flu) has devastated seabird populations throughout […]

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New paper: Relocating tanker lanes reduces threat of chronic oiling for Magellanic penguins

Boersma Lab, News / June 26, 2023

Dr. Eric Wagner, Dr. Esteban Frere, and Dr. Dee Boersma published an article on how changing oil tanker routes prevented Magellanic penguins from suffering chronic oil pollution. Read the abstract on the Marine Pollution Bulletin website.

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New Magellanic penguin study by Boersma Lab

Boersma Lab, News / June 26, 2023

Katie Holt and Dr. Dee Boersma published an article about an unprecedented, single-day, heat-related mortality event of Magellanic Penguins at Punta Tombo. Read about the after effects in the journal Ornithological Applications.

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Field updates: Argentina, April 2023

Boersma Lab, Updates from the Field / May 3, 2023

Photo credit: Eric Wagner Thanks to the generous support of Zoo Augsburg in Germany, Dr. Ginger Rebstock and Dr. Eric Wagner were able to return to Punta Tombo for a couple of weeks in April. There, they put twenty satellite tags on penguins—ten females and ten males—that were about to start their post-breeding migration. From last year’s tagging effort, we

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Eric Wagner featured in NOAA webinar

Boersma Lab, News / March 21, 2023

Eric Wagner was featured in a webinar series co-sponsored by NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and Feiro Marine Life Center. In this talk, Eric discussed the ongoing research on the rhinoceros auklets of Destruction Island (and beyond), and talked about what these furtive birds can show us about the larger world in which they try to make their living.

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Field updates: Argentina, Winter 2023

Abrahms Lab, Boersma Lab, Updates from the Field / February 28, 2023

In January and February of 2023 Dr. Dee Boersma, along with PhD students Katie Holt (Boersma Lab) and Erik Johansson (Abrahms Lab), spent six weeks in Punta Tombo to set up the remote scales that weigh penguins on their way in and out of the breeding area, and followed 19 penguins using GPS tags. The three of them were also able

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