Lab onboard the MY Esperanza in Antarctica

Penguin researcher Noah Strycker from Stony Brook University compares images taken by drone with numbers produced by hand counting undertaken by scientists on the ground. The drone uses machine learning to identify the number of penguin nests. These results are then compared by the scientists in a temporary lab aboard the Esperanza.
To understand how penguin populations are faring, a census has been organised by researchers from Stony Brook University, Northeastern University and Greenpeace to study the impact of climate change on fragile chinstrap penguin colonies in Antarctica.
Greenpeace is back in the Antarctic on the last stage of the ‘Protect the Oceans’ Expedition. We have teamed up with a group of scientists to investigate and document the impacts the climate crisis is already having in this area.

(This picture was taken in 2020 during the Antarctic leg of the Pole to Pole expedition under the Dutch permit number RWS-2019/40813)