The Center for Ecosystem Sentinels invites you to attend an open house in the Boersma Laboratory from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on June 7th! Please come see the lab and meet the students. Boersma LabKincaid Annex A0231 p.m. – 3 p.m. At 3 p.m., we will head to Meany Hall for the 3:30 p.m. Awards of Excellence ceremony where […]
Odile Stern, a New York artist and renowned eclectic collector, donated her penguin collection to the Boersma Chair in Natural History and Conservation at the University of Washington (UW). In February 1987, Ms. Stern, traveled to Punta Tombo as part of volunteer group from UW and the Wildlife Conservation Society to help with penguin research. Every year for a decade,
The world’s largest breeding colony of Magellanic penguins is seeing unprecedented deaths among young birds. A scientist who has spent 30 years studying the penguins says that climate change is to blame — triggering, among other things, more heat waves and wetter storms that kill fledglings. Source: Changing Climate In Argentina Is Killing Penguin Chicks : NPR
