> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 16:02:06 -0700
> Reply-to: jrosso at mediaseek.com
> From: jrosso at mediaseek.com (Jim Rosso)
, Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: PRBO and Penquins
RE:
> On the TV program CBS Sunday Morning, (Aug. 8) there was a long piece on research being done on the Adele Penguins in the Antarctica. One of the researchers is David Ainley who I assume still works f> Between the story on the penguins and their discuss
ion of how the drought is a result of the last three years of less than normal rain, global warming was looking pretty ugly and imminent. It was ver>
> Does anybody have any information on who sponsors this particular research, and if it is PRBO, why weren't they mentioned? A little national exposure would do wonders for the fund-raising process. I >
On a penguin note:
I have been reading "Waiting to Fly" by Ron Naveen.
(checked it out of the public Library)
It 's about his years of research with Chinstraps, gentoos and
adelies. Not very scientific, but has good moments of what research
is really like, and he paints the Antarctic landscape with words
Clarice Clark
jbroadus at seanet.com
Puyallup, WA. 98371