There is a bit of history over the many decades of this Weddell seal population study of field research team members documenting their field season experiences in logs, photos, film, and–over the most recent decade–blogs.

Blogging his experiences in words and images since 2008, Weddell seal field research team member Jesse DeVoe continues in this tradition posting some great material from Antarctica as the 2012 Weddell seal study field research season gets underway.

This is Jesse’s third Antarctic field season with the Weddell seal population and mass dynamics study based at Montana State University.  He is a grad student at MSU and works as a Research Assistant providing support for several research projects, including predator-prey (wolf-elk) dynamics in central Yellowstone, Weddell seal population and mass dynamics study in Antarctica, and bighorn sheep and mountain goat ecology in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

In the past decade, Weddell seal field research team member blogs included that of Gillian Hadley (blogging from 2002 to 2004), who posted about her experiences in Antarctica studying Weddell seals during a major iceberg event, and received her PhD from Montana State University based her work on the Weddell seal population study project.

– Mary Lynn Price

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