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The physicist who tracks penguins from space
APS News
15 October 2024
Basic Research Matters: Meet The Winners Of 2024’s Golden Goose Awards
Forbes
4 October 2024
From Poop to Protection: Satellite Discoveries Help Save Antarctic Penguins and Advance Wildlife Monitoring
Golden Goose Award
24 September 2024
Protecting Penguins
Oceanography Magazine
May 2024
Penguins and Space? How NASA helps monitor Antarctica
@NASA_Landsat on X
May 2024
What’s the state of global warming? Ask the penguins.
Experience Magazine
May 2022
Penguins fill gaps in understanding of global warming
The Economist
27 April 2022
Where the ice is still abundant, these penguins are, too
New York Times
12 April 2022
Penguin colony found in Antarctic sign of climate change
BBC News
20 January 2022
Research expedition to find remote penguin colonies in Antarctica
ABC News
20 January 2022
From Identifying Penguins By Their Feet to Writing Pilot Television Dramas, Heather Lynch Tries It All
American Association for the Advancement of Science
18 August 2021
Why Penguins May Help Us Predict the Impact of Climate Change
Financial Times
27 February 2020
Some Antarctic Penguin Colonies Have Declined By More Than 75% in 50 Years
CNN
11 February 2020
Climate Change Puts Penguins in Decline on Shackleton’s Elephant Island
The Times
11 February 2020
Antarctic Penguin Colonies Decline 77 Percent in 50 Years
Al Jazeera
11 February 2020
Chinstrap Penguin Numbers May Have Fallen By More Than Half on Antarctic Island
National Geographic
11 February 2020
Penguin Colonies Are Shrinking in Antarctica Due to Climate Change
Bloomberg
11 February 2020
Antarctica’s Most Numerous Penguin Has Suffered Huge Declines, Expedition Finds
Audubon
10 February 2020
Climate Change Is Decimating the Chinstrap Penguins of Antarctica
Time
10 February 2020
Alarm Over Collapse of Chinstrap Penguin Numbers
The Guardian
10 February 2020
Number of Chinstrap Penguins in Antarctica Has Fallen Sharply: Scientists
New York Times
10 February 2020
Penguins at Risk in Antarctica
CBS Morning News
16 January 2020
Billionaire Len Blavatnik Lets Money Talk at Young Scientists Awards
Bloomberg
25 September 2019
Heather Lynch Receives Young Scientist Award for Tracking Antarctica Penguins with Satellites
NASA Science
18 September 2019
Climate Change? “Meh,” Say Gentoo Penguins
Scientific American
25 July 2019
Contrary to the Fears of Some, Penguins and People Do Mix
The Economist
12 July 2019
Penguins Hiding in Plain Sight (PDF)
New York Times Kids Section
28 April 2019
NASA Tracks Penguin Poop From Space – ‘Smell’ An Explanation Coming?
Forbes
14 December 2018
Adelie Penguins Poop Pink Guano. It’s So Bright, You Can See It From Space
Vox
12 December 2018
Counting Penguins Isn’t Black and White
Wall Street Journal
3-4 November 2018
Penguin Supercolony!
Science in the News (Educational Resource)
July 2018
Antarctica Needs Humans to Protect It. It Also Needs Humans to Stay Away. What’s a Potential Visitor to Do?
WPRI’s The World
11 June 2018
The Homestretch Radio Show
CBC
19 March 2018
CBS News Interview
CBS
8 March 2018
There’s a Penguin Colony So Large You Can See It From Space
New York Post
5 March 2018
A Supercolony of Penguins Has Been Found Near Antarctica
New York Times
5 March 2018
Poo Stains Seen From Space Lead to Discovery of Massive Penguin ‘Supercolony’
Gizmodo
3 March 2018
Secret Penguin Supercolony Discovered on Danger Islands
Popular Mechanics
3 March 2018
‘Supercolony’ of Adelie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica
ABC News
3 March 2018
The Secret Is Out: Scientists Spot Penguin ‘Super-Colony’ in Antarctica
Wall Street Journal
3 March 2018
Penguin Super-Colony Spotted From Space
BBC
3 March 2018
Previously Unknown ‘Supercolony’ of 1.5 Million Penguins Discovered in Antarctica’s Remote Danger Islands
Independent
2 March 2018
Should Tourists Go to Antarctica?
WHYY’s The Pulse
22 February 2018
NASA-Funded Competition Rewards Efforts to Predict Penguin Populations
NASA.gov
30 October 2017
Penguins May Not Be the Best Way to Track Ocean Health
Futurity
13 October 2017
Using Penguins to Monitor Ocean Health May Be Ineffective
Phys.org
12 October 2017
Understanding Why These Penguins Yell Could Be the Key to Saving All Penguins
Newsweek
27 September 2017
A First Look at Geographic Variation in Gentoo Penguin Calls
AOU Blog
27 September 2017
Counting Penguins: What Penguins in Antarctica Might Be Telling Us About Climate Change
NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
25 June 2017
Penguin Droppings Are Fertile Ground for Science
NASA Earth Observatory
13 June 2017
Penguin City (PDF)
National Geographic Kids Magazine
January 2017
Radio Interview
BBC5
2 November 2016
Penguin Detectives Wanted
TakePart
31 October 2016
The SBU Ecologist Who Came In From The Cold
InnovateLI
25 October 2016
NASA Collaboration Allows Citizen Scientists to Lend a Hand in Penguin Conservation
NASA Press Release
25 October 2016
Using Satellite Observations for Conservation
NASA Special Feature
13 September 2016
Antarctica’s Penguins Could Be Decimated by Climate Change
Washington Post
30 June 2016
As Antarctic Ice Shrinks From Climate Change, Will Adélie Penguins Disappear?
Christian Science Monitor
29 June 2016
New Study Reveals Patterns in Antarctic Tourism
IAATO Press Release
18 February 2016
Monaco Assessment Media Brief
Convention on Biological Diversity
24 June 2015
Should Tourists Be Banned From Antarctica?
BBC News
11 January 2015
One, Two, 3.79 Million: How Many Penguins Are There?
Audubon Magazine
21 August 2014
SBU’s Lynch Ruffles Feathers With Penguin Population Study
North Shore Beacon
11 August 2014
Finding Nemo
Antarctic Sun
8 August 2014
Researchers Tally 53% More Adelie Penguins By Using Satellites
Newsday
17 July 2014
Adelie Penguin Census Shows Seabirds Are Thriving
Wall Street Journal
10 July 2014
World’s Adelie Penguin Population Is Thriving
Wall Street Journal Video
10 July 2014
Why Some Penguins Thrive in Climate Change
ABC News
7 July 2014
Emperor Penguins May Be Moving Due to Climate Change, Study Finds
CBS News
24 June 2014
Happy Feet? Emperor Penguins Are More Than Happy to Relocate
NBC News
20 June 2014
Changing Climate, Not Tourism, Seems to Be Driving Decline in Chinstrap-Penguin Populations
NSF Press Release
6 November 2012
Tourism Not a Factor in Antarctic Penguin Decline
Summit County Citizens Voice
15 September 2012
Pinguin-Rückgang: Antarktis-Tourismus Ist Nicht Die Ursache
derStandard.at
4 September 2012
Tourismus Nicht Schuld an Pinguin-Schwund
Spiegel Online
4 September 2012
Breeding Chinstrap Penguins Vanish From Antarctic Island
Mother Nature Network
4 September 2012
Penguins Grow ‘Frigid’ as Antarctic Warms Up
Futurity
29 August 2012
Too Hot for Love: Breeding Penguins Vanish from Antarctic Island
LiveScience
29 August 2012
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Antarctica’s Gentoo Penguin Population Growing, Adelie Numbers Decreasing, Study Says
Huffington Post
26 March 2012
Home-Field Advantage Helps Penguins in Warming Antarctic
MSNBC
24 March 2012
Breeding Cycles of Penguins Affected by Global Warming
Audubon
22 March 2012
Warming Harder on Migratory Penguins
Deep Blue Home
6 March 2012
Counting Penguins from Space
Earth Imaging Journal
28 February 2012
Satellites Track Health of Seal, Penguin Populations in Antarctica
SpaceRef
18 February 2012
The Big Picture
Antarctic Sun
17 February 2012
Eyes in the Sky
Antarctic Sun
17 February 2012
Predicting Change, Protecting Biodiversity
The Scope
Spring 2010
Losing Count
Antarctic Sun
1 August 2008
Mother Jones
July/August 2008