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Collaborative Research: Using Multiple Stable Isotopes to Investigate Middle to Late Holoc — NSF Award to University of California

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is the most abundant penguin in Antarctica, though its populations are currently facing threats from climate change, loss of sea ice habitat and food supplies. In the Ross Sea region, the cold, dry environment has allowed preservation of Adélie penguin bones, feathers, eggshell a

Award titleCollaborative Research: Using Multiple Stable Isotopes to Investigate Middle to Late Holoc
Award ID2516053
AwardeeUniversity of California-Santa Cruz
CitySANTA CRUZ
StateCA
Amount obligated$50,961
Principal investigatorMichael Polito
ProgramANT Organisms & Ecosystems
Start date10/01/2024
AbstractThe Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is the most abundant penguin in Antarctica, though its populations are currently facing threats from climate change, loss of sea ice habitat and food supplies. In the Ross Sea region, the cold, dry environment has allowed preservation of Adélie penguin bones, feathers, eggshell and even mummified remains, at active and abandoned colonies that date from before the Last Glacial Maximum (more than 45,000 years ago) to the present. A warming period at 4,000-2,
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