Back from the subantarctics!

My very good reason for not posting in the past few weeks: I was sailing 300 miles south from the southern tip of New Zealand to the subantarctic Auckland Islands. Now that I’m back in range of internet, stay tuned for stories about this utterly surreal voyage...

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Mad dash to Dunedin

I'll be offline for the next two weeks! I just dashed down to Dunedin to catch a boat to the subantarctic islands, where I will help with yellow-eyed penguin surveys.

On the car ferry to the South Island! Last-minute roadtrip to Dunedin, where I’ll catch a boat down to some subantarctic islands.

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Bottlenose dolphins

I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Seabird music video!

Music video or science documentary? Whatever it is, it's the centerpiece of my latest National Geographic story: A Krill's-Eye Video of New Zealand Seabirds.

I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Penguin sketch action film

Scroll down to see the outcome of this sketching process (and read more in a Q&A with the Auckland Museum).

Sketching a penguin specimen at the @aucklandmuseum! You can watch the full (thrilling) video and read a Q&A here: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/about-us/blog/2017/life-and-times-of-sketch-biologist

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The product:

Here’s the penguin I sketched in that video (see previous post...) #seabirdsketch

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.