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Abandoned Penguin Colonies May Help Refine Antarctic Climate Studies
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr03135.htm
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This article describes a new method of studying climate change. A previously unnoticed cooling trend that persisted for a millennium caused enough ice to build up in Antarctica's Ross Sea that thousands of Adelie penguins abandoned their colonies beginning about 2,000 years ago. The techniques may also help to refine our understanding of climatic change on the southernmost continent. This article is enhanced by a video and photographs and the site offers links to more information including a version of the original paper.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Middle (6-8)
  • High (9-12)
  • College (13-14)
Type of resource:
  • Visual:
    • Photograph
    • Video
  • Text:
    • Report
Subject:
  • Biology
  • Climatology
  • Ocean Sciences:
    • Biological oceanography
Technical requirements:
RealPlayer plug-in
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
NSF's policy is to use externally-produced material (graphics, text, etc.) on our web site only with permission of the copyright holder. Most text appearing on NSF web pages was either prepared by employees of the United States Government as part of their official duties and therefore not subject to copyright or prepared under contracts that gave the Foundation the right to place the text into the public domain. The same is true of most publications available for downloading from this web site. You may freely copy that material and, at your discretion, credit NSF with a "Courtesy: National Science Foundation" notation. If copyrighted text is included on an NSF web page or in an NSF publication, it will be specifically identified. For information about copyright holders, how they can be contacted, and what, if any, use those owners allow of their material, please provide the URL to the webmaster identified as contact for the page on which the text or download link appears.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-007-350
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • K-4:
      • C - Life science:
        • Organisms and environments
    • 5-8:
      • C - Life science:
        • Population and ecosystems
        • Regulation and behavior
    • 9-12:
      • C - Life science:
        • Behavior of organisms
        • Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Principal Investigator: Steven Emslie
University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Publisher: National Science Foundation