Gentoo penguin, photographed in the Jena researchers’ study area on King George Island. As a result of climate change, this species is spreading in the Antarctic. Image: Christina Braun
Gentoo penguin, photographed in the Jena researchers' study area on King George Island. As a result of climate change, this species is spreading in the Antarctic. Image: Christina Braun - If there were ever a prize for the longest journey to work, the Jena University team led by Christina Braun would stand a good chance of winning it. To reach their research area, the polar ornithologist and her team travel some 14,000 kilometres - as the crow flies - each time. Their destination is the Fildes Peninsula on King George Island in the Antarctic. Researchers from the University of Jena have been observing changes in the Antarctic fauna since the early 1980s. Since 2003, their long-term monitoring project, studying breeding birds and seals, has been funded by the German Environment Agency.
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