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Ginger Rebstock
Magellanic Penguins: Wildlife Spectacles and Long-Term Studies
The Penguin Sentinels project, a joint endeavor of the University of Washington and the Wildlife Conservation Society, is a long-term study that has followed the world’s largest breeding colony of Magellanic Penguins at Punta Tombo, Argentina since 1983.
David Salomon
Penguin-Pedia
David Salomon began compiling his Penguin-Pedia after a trip to Chilean Patagonia that inspired his interest in penguins.
Linda McDermott
Antarctica: Living at the Harshest Place on Earth
Travel to the coldest, windiest, harshest, driest place on Earth with Linda McDermott, who worked at McMurdo and South Pole Stations in Antarctica during two summer seasons.
Mark Plotkin
Rainforest Conservation and the Search for New Jungle Medicines
Dr. Mark Plotkin has spent much of the past thirty years working with medicine men and women of the rainforests. Dr. Plotkin and the Amazon Conservation Team are working with these healers to protect the rainforests and their healing secrets.
Richard L. James
Amazing Butterflies: Nature’s Gift to Us
Learn about monarch and other butterfly species from Richard L. James, a naturalist at Long Beach’s El Dorado Nature Center.
Kristy Forsgren
Salmon Reproduction and the Effects of a Commonly Used Pesticide
Dr. Bernie Krause
The Great Animal Orchestra
Since 1968 Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled around the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments.
Jay Holcomb
Rehabilitating Oiled Penguins During the Treasure Oil Spill in South Africa
The largest oiled wildlife rescue and rehabilitation effort ever mounted took place in 2000 in South Africa when an iron ore ship, the Treasure, sank between the two largest breeding islands for African Penguins.
Sustaining Communities
Every year, North America's Marine Protected Areas contribute millions of dollars to the economy.
Discovering the Ocean’s Secrets
Imagine going to work everyday in the ocean, to study the plants and animals that call it home.
Protecting Marine Life
Swim up North America's coast like a whale and you will see its vibrant and diverse life.
Some of the places along the way are marine protected areas that ensure safe passage and abundant food for the planet's marine animals. These diverse areas also protect an incredible variety of marine life.
Connecting Us to Nature
Marine protected areas offer a perfect adventure.
Sharks, the most feared predator
Hunter or hunted?
"Shark!" The mere word evokes fear in many people! In recent history, shark attack upon humans has been one of the most feared (and most misunderstood) natural dangers to man. In reality, it is the shark that has become the hunted.
Charles Moore
Plastic Ocean: How Bad Is It?
In 1997 Captain Charles Moore discovered plastic in the ocean in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Dubbed the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch, this estimated three million tons of plastic debris is still growing in the Northeast Pacific between Hawaii and the West Coast. He spoke at the Aquarium on March 6, 2012.
Dr. Michael Mann
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
In his lecture on February 15, 2012, Michael Mann discussed the “Hockey Stick,” a graph he created with his colleagues to depict changes in Earth’s temperature dating back to 1000 AD. Dr. Mann is a member of the Penn State University faculty, holding joint positions in the departments of meteorology and geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute.