Adelie penguins incubating their eggs during a snowstorm at Cape Royds on Ross Island, Antarctica.
Jean Pennycook, who has a background in education and is currently an Einstein Fellow at the National Science Foundation, observes and tracks Adelie penguin families at Cape Royds for her outreach project that she posts on the websitepenguinscience.com. Ross Island is a giant living laboratory where thousands of Adelie penguins converge in raucous crowds during Antarctica's warmer months to breed and rear their young.
Pennycook, who works on an Adelie penguin research team led by David Ainley, an ecologist with H.T. Harvey & Associates, brings the science and research of penguins and the adventure and beauty of Antarctica to classrooms around the world. She makes the science accessible to people of all ages through an interactive webpage, daily pictures from the field and classroom activities for teachers to engage their students in the lives of these remarkable birds.
http://www.penguinscience.com/media/video/webisodes.php
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