COOPER ISLAND, ALASKA — Celebrating a solitary Independence Day on Cooper Island with a few hundred black Guillemots. While many guillemots are still laying eggs, yesterday I saw the first successful fledge of the year — a barely flying snow bunting that was still being fed by a parent. Snow bunting nests can produce up to seven chicks and feeding [...]
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  (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...COOPER ISLAND, ALASKA — While at lower latitudes seasonal transitions occur slowly with weeks or months between what one considers winter and summer conditions, in the Arctic this transition is abrupt — taking only a few days. The mainland tundra and offshore islands can be snow-covered one day and then virtually snow-free the next with [...] (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...George and Penelope get their first view of Cooper Island from the air. COOPER ISLAND, ALASKA — While the start of every field season is always an exciting (and frequently stressful) time, this year the start of the Cooper Island field season had more excitement than most. Preparations began earlier than normal as March and [...] (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Lori Here’s your chance to get involved in the work being done on Cooper Island: Friends of Cooper Island is initiating a “Nest-Site Sponsorship” program to help pay for nest replacement and our ongoing research on Arctic seabirds. A minimum $100 tax-deductible donation will sponsor a nest site for one year and bring you (or [...]  (2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Lori George is back from Cooper Island (for now) after having delivered 150 plastic cases to the island for use as new guillemot nest sites. (More information about these cases and how you can sponsor a nest site coming soon.) George will be returning to Cooper Island in May and will stay for 3 [...] (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Shouting warming in a crowded theater London, England, March 14, 2011 — Working in a rapidly changing environment for over 35 years has provided me with a number of “I never thought I would see this!” moments, especially in the last decade. Spending my summers on an island at the northern edge of Alaska since 1975 has [...] (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Lori The BBC takes a look at the play Greenland and talks to the individuals involved in its creation. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] For more BBC podcasts about the environmental, development and agriculture, dealing with the impact of humankind on the natural world visit BBC One Planet. (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Lori “It was the strangest email I have ever received,” George told Alun Anderson, a writer for NewScientist and author of After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic. An actor from London’s National Theatre wanted to speak with George about his work on the remote island of Cooper Island as background [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Guillemot Chicks Dec. 28, 2010 — We want to wish our friends a happy holiday season and thank you for your support and interest over the past year. 2011 promises to be a busy and exciting time for us as we hope to replace most of the wooden nest sites on Cooper Island with [...] (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5) Loading ...Cooper Island, Alaska, Sept. 7, 2010 — The increasing distance between Cooper Island and the August pack ice has resulted in a range of problems for the black guillemots breeding on the island. The decreased access to their preferred prey of Arctic cod, which live under sea ice and in the cold waters adjacent to the [...] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... |
 
Penelope graduated from the University of Washington with a BS in Environmental Science and Resource Management and she has worked for the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) project. During her time at COASST she also worked for the Friends of Cooper Island, seeing the numerical changes of the Arctic as she entered over 30 years of George Divoky’s data into Excel Spreadsheets. In October of 2010 she made her way back to Antarctica, this time she left her mop and bucket behind, and worked as a Field Technician on a long-term penguin monitoring study. Currently she is working for Friends of Cooper Island and will, for the first time, be on Cooper Island putting in Polar Bear proof nest boxes and banding adult breeding birds.
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