Sentences with phrase «pal lter»
In 1974, PAL LTER scientists documented 15,000 breeding pairs of Adélies near the peninsula's Palmer Station.
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Ducklow, chief scientist for the 2017 PAL LTER cruise, said, «We decided to reoccupy Station Obama eight years later to celebrate Obama's presidency and the progress made in addressing climate change in that period, and call attention to grave concerns about the future under the new Trump Administration.»
To learn more about PAL LTER research and the changes occurring in the Antarctic marine ecosystem, see the documentary Antarctic Edge: 70 South.
PAL LTER researchers plan to visit Station Obama annually.
The team of oceanographers, whale biologists and avian ecologists are participating in the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula each year.
Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and Center for Climate and Life oceanographer Hugh Ducklow, PAL LTER principal investigator, was one of them.