May 10, 2012, 7 p.m. PT
Presentation at Whidbey Audubon Society
Coupeville Recreation Hall, Coupeville, Wash.
RECENT TALKS
George presented a talk at the Seven Hills School in Cincinnati in January, gave an invited talk at the international conference Gyrfalcons and Ptarmagin in a Changing World in Boise Idaho in February 2011, and also spoke at the Redwood Region and Mendocino Audubon Societies in northern California in February 2011.
Compelling Speaker, Cutting Edge Content
George has discussed his findings in a range
of venues including primary schools, colleges and regional and
national natural resource societies. He has been
interviewed on Nightline, CNN, PBS and the BBC as well as
appearing on Late Night with David Letterman.
If you would like to have George Divoky share his insights and observations with your organization, contact us at outreach[at]cooperisland.org
Recent Interview
Recent interview recorded in Barrow - George speaks about his
observations and experiences on Cooper Island as part of a NSF project to document the experiences of people who
work and live in the Arctic in spring 2010. Excerpts from
the interview can be found here.
Publication
The impacts of changes in arctic pack ice on Cooper
Island seabirds are included in a recent publication
that examines the biological consequences of ice melt in
the Arctic and Antarctic:
High latitude changes in ice dynamics and their impact on polar marine ecosystems [Download PDF]
Moline, M. A., N. J. Karnovsky, Z. Brown, G. J. Divoky, T.
R. Frazer, C. A. Jacoby, J. J. Torres and W. R. Fraser.
2008. Pp 267-319 in: The Year in Ecology and
Conservation Biology 2008. R. S. Ostfeld and W. H.
Schlesinger (eds.). Annals New York Acad. Sci.,
1134. [Download the PDF]
Supernormal delay in hatching, embryo
cold tolerance and egg fostering in the Black Guillemot
Cepphus grylle [Download
PDF]
Divoky, G.J. and B.B. Harter. 2010. Marine
Ornithology 38:7-10.
Cooper Island Research
Featured in National Polar-Palooza Tour
The long-term data set on seabird
breeding biology, as well as recent observations on the
increase of polar bears on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast
are being included in an International Polar Year public
outreach and education program called Polar-Palooza: Stories from a changing planet.
In 2008 and 2009 George Divoky participated in
Polar-Palooza public presentations in a number of U.S.
cities and in Brazil and China. A video produced for Polar-Palooza on Cooper Island
research and shown on National Geographic television last
April is available at this link.
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