Those of you on Facebook will have noted my announcement that my son Hugh is once again in the Antarctic. Hugh's employers, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, have loaned him out to the Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory (RU COOL) to blog about their voyage across the Ross Sea investigating the reasons for the incredible productivity of this area. Hugh is once again teamed with photographer Chris Lindner to produce materials for elementary schools about Antarctica and how science is done down there. For those of you who are not on Facebook, you can follow the progress of the RU COOL at http://coseenow.net/ross-sea/ Hugh reports his first sighting on landing at McMurdo Sound was South Polar Skua. Cheers, Bob -- Robert D Powell Congress Farm Research Institute Wilmington, OH, USA [log in to unmask] http://rdp1710.wordpress.com Nulla dies sine aves ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]