by Audrey Benedict | May 18, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #48: Zodiac Landings! (South Georgia) The first surf landing in a Zodiac at South Georgia is always exciting, the beaches dotted with Antarctic fur seals and bull elephant seals defending their respective strongholds and harems, the noise of their bellicose...
by Audrey Benedict | May 18, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #47: Bound for South Georgia! You never forget your first glimpse of South Georgia—the Antarctic oasis where alpine glaciers give way to tussock-dotted headlands and beaches covered with thousands of king penguins, elephant seals, and Antarctic fur seals....
by Audrey Benedict | May 15, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #46: Ice Requiem In this time of accelerating global climate change in polar regions, we need to think about the complex and interdependent ecosystems that have evolved in association with ice in all of its forms. What I’ve shared in these East...
by Audrey Benedict | May 14, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #45: Adélie Penguins at Risk Understanding the impacts of global climate perturbations on penguins is especially complex in polar regions. Adélie penguins are critically important as ecosystem sentinels because they are sea-ice dependent and their survival...
by Audrey Benedict | May 13, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #44: Crabeater Seals (Cape Denison, East Antarctica, 2006) The Adélie penguins and crabeater seals that share the ice landing at Cape Denison (photo #2) appear to coexist as if the phrase “Peaceable Kingdom” still has some validity in the natural...
