Penguins
If ever one needed an excuse to post pictures of penguins, yesterday was World Penguin Day.
Month: April 2015
Four years without bunnies
Walking is getting harder on Macquarie Island. Previously short-cropped grass only centimetres tall is now a knee-deep meadow of grass matted with mosses and herbs. This is one of the initial observations from last week’s field trip to the Subantarctic Read More …
Into the field!
We landed on Macquarie Island yesterday and spent a few hours setting up and testing an automatic weather station. Now it is ready to be airlifted to over 300 m elevation on the plateau, ready for installation. We’ll find out Read More …
The project – vegetation change on Subantarctic Macquarie Island
My research project is looking at vegetation change on Macquarie Island. Since rabbits were eradicated from the island in 2011 the plants which had been subject to intensive grazing by these pest animals are now growing back. Nobody knows what Read More …