Author: Site admin (Thomas Mattern)

Home / Site admin
Season start in Milford Sound
September 15, 2018September 15, 2018
Post

Season start in Milford Sound

The Tawaki Project 2018 is underway! This time we kicked off fieldwork in Milford Sound. The fjord presented itself in all its mystical glory with mist clinging to its almost vertical mountain flanks. We came armed with four GPS dive loggers to put on female penguins. And as if a cruise through Milford Sound to...

August 29, 2018August 29, 2018
Post

Marathon penguins published

Giselle Clarkson sums up a lengthy scientific paper describing results from our 1st satellite tracking study nicely...

Field work 2017, Day 18
October 3, 2017October 3, 2017
Post

Field work 2017, Day 18

A day dominated by fruitless efforts to recover loggers from penguins that have been out for several days...

Field work 2017, Day 12
September 27, 2017September 27, 2017
Post

Field work 2017, Day 12

A touristy start to the day, followed by three logger deployments and a fascinating underwater late night show...