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Antarctic field season 2023-2024: part 2

ANTSIE team member Professor Richard Phillips discusses the recent fieldwork that he and Dr Ewan Wakefield completed at Troll station (supported by the Norwegian Polar Institute) in the early part of his Polar Diaries interview, including some of the work we’re doing on tracking snow petrels and analysing the stomach oil deposits.

Views of Jutulsessen and the snow petrels we were observing. This snow petrel pair is tucked into a crevice within the rock >200km from the sea where they forage. Credit: Dr Ewan Wakefield.