UAVs for science in Antarctica

P Pina, G Vieira - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing is a very powerful tool that has been used to identify, map and monitor
Antarctic features and processes for nearly one century. Satellite remote sensing plays the …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing for Antarctic Research: A review of progress, current applications, and future use cases

Y Li, G Qiao, S Popov, X Cui… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Antarctica has been significantly influenced by global climate change. Owing to the
spatiotemporal limitations of existing datasets, budgetary constraints, logistical challenges …

Global deposition of potentially toxic metals via faecal material in seabird colonies

S De La Peña-Lastra, A Pérez-Alberti, TO Ferreira… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Seabirds are known to play an important role in the geochemical cycling of macronutrients;
however, their role in cycling elements of environmental interest has not been investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal overlap of baleen whales and krill fisheries in the Western Antarctic peninsula region

RR Reisinger, PN Trathan, CM Johnson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In Antarctica, abundant consumers rely on Antarctic krill for food, but krill are also the subject
of a commercial fishery. The fishery overlaps in time and space with the foraging areas of …

Best practices for using drones in seabird monitoring and research

A Edney, T Hart, M Jessopp, A Banks, L Clarke… - Marine …, 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Over the past decade, drones have become increasingly popular in environmental biology
and have been used to study wildlife on all continents. Drones have become of global …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the potential of aerial drone imagery to distinguish breeding Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) and gentoo (Pygoscelis …

C Pfeifer, S Knetsch, J Maercker, O Mustafa… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Penguins are critical indicator species for detecting changes in the Antarctic ecosystem. As
climate change impacts the Antarctic environment, the distribution of penguin breeding …

Food falls in the deep northwestern Weddell Sea

JB Stauffer, A Purser, HJ Griffiths, CR Smith… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
When pelagic organisms die and fall onto the deep-sea floor they create food falls, ie,
parcels of organic enrichment that subsidize deep benthic scavenging communities. The …

Potential for redistribution of post‐moult habitat for Eudyptes penguins in the Southern Ocean under future climate conditions

CP Green, DB Green, N Ratcliffe… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is resulting in spatial redistributions of many species. We
assessed the potential effects of climate change on an abundant and widely distributed …

Review of the techniques for estimating population size of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae)

AJ Strang, EZ Cameron, DP Anderson, E Robinson… - Polar Biology, 2025 - Springer
Monitoring of sentinel species provides insight into the ecosystems in which they live. In the
Southern Ocean, penguins are one such indicator species, where only a limited number of …

Update on the abundance and distribution of Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) in the Antarctic Peninsula region

M Hallet, HJ Lynch - Polar Biology, 2024 - Springer
Several studies have examined the potential impacts of climate change on the abundance
and distribution of Antarctic penguin species, particularly in the genus Pygoscelis. However …