GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
tags: antarctica, emperor penguins, penguin rookery, official blogger, Quark Expeditions, streaming video
Here's one of several videos by Quark Expeditions, the group from whom I am trying to win the official blogger job ("Penguin Whisperer") for their February 2010 Antarctic trip .. I think that, after watching this video, you will agree with me that I'd be a superb choice for official blogger because I am familiar with penguins and other birds and would love to tell you more about them in words, pictures and video, as I experience them in real life (as well as telling you about the voyage and the people I meet on the boat, too) [3:00]
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