IPY was great fun today. I listened to some talks on how ocean global and polar ocean monitoring (including acoustic monitoring of animals such as beluga whales and seals) is starting to benefit society on a large scale, some on foxes and geese and then browsed the poster hall to finish off the day. There was some fairly interesting stuff there, like the guy studying Weddell Seal lactation or the people studying Reindeer herds. I'm not quite sure how they really grouped everything for the poster session as the topics were all over the board. It is a mystery!
Quote of the day, "One method of controlling the red fox [to save the arctic fox] is simply to shoot them... and we do heehehehe"
Followed by the question, "Could the red fox be intruding on the arctic foxes land due to expansion of human settlement, and in that case who will shoot the people?"
