Field camp at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island.

A group of female Southern elephant seals in molt.

Seal biologist Dr. Mike Goebel holding a special fur seal: a rare white morph

The Cape Shirreff field station on Livingston Island. The blue barrels are used for collecting and storing fresh water.

This young fur seal has discovered a comfortable resting spot, in the pelvic bone of a whale. Fur seal pups spend days resting on land while their mothers forage at sea.

An Antarctic fur seal instrumented with radio and flipper tags.

Krill remains give a fresh fur seal scat a pinkish color.

A calm day in Antarctica.

Fur seal mother and pup.

Fur seal pup next to a whale vertebra.

A cross-section of a fur seal tooth, under a microscope. Seal teeth give clues to an animal's age and diet history.

A cross-section of Antarctic fur seal teeth seen under a dissecting microscope.

A wildlife photographer .

Icebergs on a foggy day.

AMLR scientists deploy a small boat from the R/V Surveyor to carry supplies to the AMLR field stations.

The icy coast of Seal Island, near Elephant Island.

A white morph giant petrel savenges on the carcass of a fur seal pup, seen in the foreground. The pups eyes are missing, indicating that this was a possible entry point for the scavenging animal.

A conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) is deployed from the fantail of the R/V Surveyor.

Iceberg, Seal Island, South Shetland Islands.

Closeup of a gentoo penguin.

A close up of an Antarctic fur seal.

A small iceberg, or "growler", off the cost of rocky Seal Island.

A chinstrap penguin colony on Seal Island.

A glacier at Seal Island, 1992.

A small iceberg, or "growler", off the cost of rocky Seal Island.

A species of icefish.

Icefish.

AMLR scientists in a Zodiac off the coast of Seal Island.

A sunrise in the South Shetland Islands.

Antarctic researcher Lisa Hiruki-Raring downloads data in the observation blind at North Cove, Seal Island.

The Seal Island field camp and Beaker Bay on a clear, sunny day.

An AMLR Antarctic tradition: making ice cream. Biologists Mike Cameron, William Meyer and Dr. Rennie Holt make Christmas dessert at the Seal Island Field camp.

AMLR biologist John Jansen enters data at the Seal Island field camp.

Biologist John Jansen weighs and measures a chinstrap penguin (soon to be released and set on its way).

A chinstrap penguin being instrumented with a Time Depth Recorder (TDR).

Biologists walk along the outskirts of a penguin at Beaker Bay, Seal Island.

Molting chinstrap penguins, Seal Island.

A close up of an Antarctic fur seal's teeth.

Chinstrap penguin with chick.

Chinstrap penguins on nests.

A fur seal amongst penguins.

Penguin crossing at the Seal Island field station.

The Weatherport living structure at Beaker Bay, Seal Island, with a chinstrap penguin colony in the foreground.

A fur seal with a radio transmitter glued to its fur. The tag is shed in several months when the animal molts its fur.

Antarctic fur seals and chinstrap penguins at North Cove, Seal Island.

Antarctic fur seals and chinstrap penguins at North Cove, Seal Island.

Chinstrap penguins at North Cove, Seal Island.

Biologists Brian Walker, Mike Schwartz and William Meyer prepare to weigh penguin chicks, Seal Island.

Observation blind at Big Top chinstrap penguin colony, Seal Island.

A penguin colony near a weather station, Seal Island.