{"id":706,"date":"2016-04-18T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gemmlab\/?p=706"},"modified":"2016-04-18T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:05:18","slug":"wildlife-of-the-western-antarctic-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gemmlab\/2016\/04\/18\/wildlife-of-the-western-antarctic-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife of the Western Antarctic Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erin Pickett, MS Student, Fisheries and Wildlife Department, OSU<\/p>\n

This time last week, I was on a research vessel\u00a0crossing the Drake Passage. The Drake extends from the\u00a0tip of the Western Antarctic Peninsula to South America’s Cape Horn, and was part of the route I was taking\u00a0home from Antarctica.\u00a0Over the past three months I have been working on a long-term ecological research (LTER) project based out of Palmer Station, a U.S. based research facility located on\u00a0Anvers Island.<\/p>\n

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While in Antarctica, I was working on the cetacean component of the Palmer LTER project, which I’ve described in previous\u00a0blog posts<\/a>. In lieu of writing\u00a0more about what it is like to work and live on the Antarctic Peninsula, I thought I’d share some photos with you.\u00a0Working\u00a0on the water everyday while searching for whales provided me with many opportunities to photograph the local wildlife. I hope you’ll enjoy a few of\u00a0my favorite shots.<\/p>\n