Peng Pal and his friends just can't get enough of these delicious shrimp like invertebrates.
For more information about the role of krill in the marine food web please check out the article that inspired the comic.
A comic about the adventures of John John, a young Ice Core Researcher working on the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project who befriends a curious penguin named Peng Pal.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Peng Pal Strikes a Pose in "BIG RED"
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Putting on "Big Red" seems to be a defining moment for many travellers to Antarctica.
The large red parkas are distributed at the US Government's CDC or "Clothing Distribution Center" in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Weather Balloon
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Heidi Roop's weather balloon video inspired this comic. Heidi is working as a science technician at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide and is one ot the Antarctic correspondents for Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists where you can check out her personal blog.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Tiny Bubbles!!
This comic was inspired by Anna Mckee's photo entry on her blog titled "Gas bubbles in small section of ice core". Anna is a visual artist from Seattle WA who is in Antarctica to document the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project with support from the National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Standing On Top Of The World!!
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I re-made this comic to reflect an amazing natural phenomenon called a "sun dog", a halo around the sun caused by ice-crystals in the atmosphere. You can read more about it here.
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This comic was inspired by a 2009 year end blog entry by ice core researcher John Fegyveresi. John is a student from Penn. State who is at WAIS Divide busily "packing ice cores, and taking physical properties samples for the I-168 grant".
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The Meteoroid, Meteor, Meterorite
Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites are the names given to a space object at three locations relative to the Earth's atmosphere. Meteoroids are space objects that are floating around outside of Earth's atmosphere. Meteors are the streak of light you see as a space object enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up. Meteorites are the lucky space objects that survive Earth's atmosphere and make it all the way to the ground usually as small particles or pebbles but sometimes larger. Read all about it here.
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Friday, January 1, 2010
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