ACS Monterey Bay Program for October 2004
Antarctica Contrasts: the marine mammals and seabirds of New Zealand, the Sub-Antarctic Islands and the Ross Sea
- Thursday, October 28, 2004
- 7 p.m. Refreshments, 7:30 p.m. Program
- Lecture Hall, Monterey Boatworks,
Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove
(across from American Tin Cannery Outlet Stores)
Our speaker will compare the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Islands in the different regions of the "Great South" which include Enderby, Macquarie, Campbell and Snares Islands, together with the historical huts of the Ross Sea Region. Doug will discuss mammal and bird behavior that he has photographed in this area. King Penguins, for example, behave quite differently on Macquarie Island than at South Georgia. The slides will include albatross, sea lions, elephant seals, true seals, and cetaceans, as well as the plethora of penguins in the two regions. Other wildlife will be Emperor Penguins, Orcas in the ice, and a big male Sperm Whale that they were able to photograph. Some great feeding behavior of a leopard seal will be shown. He will have two slide projectors using lapse dissolve.
Doug, wife Gail, and son Ted Cheeseman and staff have led 12 trips to the Antarctic, including 7 of their own charters. After teaching Biology and Ecology for 35 years, Doug and Gail are now leading about 6 to 8 trips a year, some only a week and some for a month, many of them charters. They started Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris in 1980.
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