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Penguin standing on ice next to human shadows.

Penguin standing on ice next to human shadows.
Penguin standing on ice next to human shadows.
Penguin standing on ice next to human shadows.
Penguin standing on ice next to human shadows.
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Linder, Christopher L.
Penguin standing on ice next to human shadows.
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12/23/2007
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Expedition 3 - perhaps the best journey in the world from this writer's point of view - is at an end. If all goes according to schedule, we'll leave Cape Crozier by helicopter tomorrow. The next day, the same C-17 jet that brought us here a month ago will swallow us up and carry us home to a world of colors and darkness. We'd like to thank everyone who has helped Expedition 3 be such a success: our web designers and editors: Katherine Joyce, Jeannine Pires, Lonny Lippsett, Amy Nevala, and Kate Madin; the scientists who allowed us to join them at work: David Ainley, Jean Pennycook, Mark Kurz, Adam Soule, Andrea Burke, Grant Ballard, Viola Toniolo, and Kirsten Lindquist; our funders: the National Science Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation; our eight partner museums. Most of all, thanks to everyone who has read our dispatches, sent in questions, and spent a moment or two each day on an imaginary hike by our sides. Join us again in July 2008 when Expedition 4 takes us to the glaciers of Greenland.
Image of the Day caption:
An Adélie penguin ponders the long shadows of tall visitors to its colony on Ross Island in the Antarctic. The picture was taken by Chris Linder, a research associate in physical oceanography at WHOI, during a Polar Discovery expedition in November-December 2007. During the expedition, one group of scientists studied how much food the parent penguins deliver to their chicks, how long it took them to collect it, and how fast the chicks grow. Another group, including geologists Adam Soule and Mark Kurz and Joint Program student Andrea Burke, hiked inland to examine how fast lava rock breaks down in the frigid, dry Antarctic climate.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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