 We danced with them in Happy Feet. We raised young with them in March
of the Penguins.
But unlike the uplifting messages concluding both of those films,
emperor penguins are being threatened by the effects of global warming
and overfishing.
UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Gerald Kooyman
(a recent recipient of the Kenneth Norris Lifetime Achievement Award)
and his colleague Paul Ponganis, a Scripps marine biologist and anesthesiologist,
have been studying emperor penguins for more than two decades.
During their most recent research expeditions to Antarctica, both
researchers have seen changes in emperor penguin habitats, affecting
the way they feed, breed and raise their young.
Kooyman says the effect of climate change on the birds could
be serious because warming conditions may disrupt critical
growth and swimming
development for the young.
Penguins without ice? Not the sequel we want to see. 
Contributors to Making Waves: Mario Aguilera, '89, Rex Graham, Raymond Hardie, Debra Kain, Daniel B. Kane, Kim McDonald
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