Doug Nowacek, Ari Friedlaender, Erin Puckett and Logan Pallin (a Duke undergraduate and now one of Ari’s master’s students at Oregon State) are on their way to the Antarctic to study the ecology of humpback whales as part of the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, funded by the National Science Foundation. Doug and Logan will be working out of Palmer Station while Ari and Erin will be aboard the ASRV Laurence M. Gould. You can follow their adventures at: http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/ltercetaceans/. The Antarctic may never be the same.
