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Jean Pennycook is an American educator and zoologist specializing in Antarctic Adélie penguins.[1] She is based in Cape Royds, an Antarctic Specially Protected Area which hosts a stable population of Adélie penguins.[2][3]

Career[edit]

Pennycook first came to Antarctica in 1999 as part of a team from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who were researching Mount Erebus, a volcano on Ross Island.[4] She publicized scientific research in Antarctica using several science outreach methods, including online journal entries and postcards, video conferences with schoolchildren, and a documentary about the effect of climate change on penguins.[4][5] Pennycook and her fellow researcher David Ainley run an educational website, Penguin Science, which summarizes the research team's work and aims to attract future scientists to the field.[6][7] Pennycook has supervised interns in the Polar Internship Program, which aims to enable students of underrepresented racial or social groups to visit Antarctica and become familiarized with Antarctic scientific research.[7][8]

Pennycook created an outreach project where schoolchildren could send personalized postcards with drawings of penguins sent to her, which would then be returned with an Antarctic postmark.[2][7] Schools also have the option of designing a class flag to be flown in Antarctica, which can subsequently be viewed through a live penguin webcam on the research team's website.[6][9]

Publications[edit]

  • Pennycook, Jean (October 2006). "Penguins Marching Into Your Classroom". Science and Children. 44 (2): 65.
  • Kim, S.; Pennycook, J.; Eastman, J. (2011). "Short Note: Antarctic toothfish heads found along tide cracks of the McMurdo Ice Shelf". Antarctic Science. 23 (5): 469–470. doi:10.1017/S095410201100040X.
  • Ainley, D.G.; Lindke, K.; Ballard, G.; et al. (2017). "Spatio-temporal occurrence patterns of cetaceans near Ross Island, Antarctica, 2002–2015: implications for food web dynamics". Polar Biol. 40 (9): 1761–1775. doi:10.1007/s00300-017-2100-9.
  • Morandini, V.; Dugger, K.M.; Ballard, G.; Elrod, M.; Schmidt, A.; Ruoppolo, V.; Lescroël, A.; Jongsomjit, D.; Massaro, M.; Pennycook, J.; et al. (2019). "Identification of a Novel Adélie Penguin Circovirus at Cape Crozier (Ross Island, Antarctica)". Viruses. 11 (12): 1088. doi:10.3390/v11121088. PMC 6950389. PMID 31766719.
  • LaRue, MA; Salas, L; Nur, N; Ainley, DG; et al. (2019). "Physical and ecological factors explain the distribution of Ross Sea Weddell seals during the breeding season". Mar Ecol Prog Ser. 612: 193–208. doi:10.3354/meps12877.
  • LaRue, M.A.; Ainley, D.G.; Pennycook, J.; Stamatiou, K.; Salas, L.; Nur, N.; Stammerjohn, S.; Barrington, L. (2020). "Engaging 'the crowd' in remote sensing to learn about habitat affinity of the Weddell seal in Antarctica". Remote Sens Ecol Conserv. 6 (1): 70–78. doi:10.1002/rse2.124.
  • Salas, Leo A.; LaRue, Michelle; Nur, Nadav; Ainley, David G.; Stammerjohn, Sharon E.; Pennycook, Jean; Rotella, Jay; Paterson, John Terrill; Siniff, Don; Stamatiou, Kostas; Dozier, Melissa; Saints, Jon; Barrington, Luke (2020). "Reducing error and increasing reliability of wildlife counts from citizen science surveys: counting Weddell Seals in the Ross Sea from satellite images". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2020.11.18.388157.
  • LaRue, Michelle; et al. (2021). "Insights from the first global population estimate of Weddell seals in Antarctica". Sci. Adv. 7 (39): eabh3674. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh3674. PMC 8462891. PMID 34559555.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jean Pennycook". Women Working in Antarctica. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Shah, Dhruti (December 3, 2016). "Sending a postcard from somewhere you've never been". BBC. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021.
  3. ^ Stonehouse, B. (December 1967). "Penguins in High Latitudes". Tuatara. 15 (3): 129–132.
  4. ^ a b "Jean Pennycook". Windows to the Universe. November 28, 2006. Archived from the original on July 28, 2023.
  5. ^ Preis, Beth (January 28, 2013). "Willowbrook Students Visit Antarctica Via Skype". Patch. Archived from the original on July 28, 2023.
  6. ^ a b Martin, Jynne Dilling (December 12, 2013). "Is Anything More Adorable Than a Penguin?". Slate. Archived from the original on June 27, 2022.
  7. ^ a b c "Adélie Penguins Cope With Climate Change". National Science Foundation. February 6, 2013. Archived from the original on June 6, 2023.
  8. ^ Barnett, Brien (January 18, 2004). "Polar interns get a taste of the Ice" (PDF). The Antarctic Sun. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 15, 2023.
  9. ^ "Sacred Heart School's two Kindergarten classes' flags flown in Antarctica". InMenlo. March 19, 2019. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019.

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