Project information
MCMINN, Prof. Andrew
University of Tasmania
Davis, Vestfold Hills
Project aim
Penguin populations are sensitive indicators of climate change and have fluctuated through time.
Coastal Antarctic lakes near penguin rookeries contain a record of the adjacent rookery activity, locked away in the lake sediments.
Studies of fossilised algae in sediments will reveal patterns between penguin population dynamics and climate change over millenia.