Author: beatricevonp

Watching whales in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Printmaking is endlessly fascinating to me, the image you see on a piece of paper is the result of a complex process. I love the way that a print is a two dimensional mark of all the work that has gone before it for the making of a three dimensional plate. Prints are the basic… Continue reading Art and science fieldwork →

Feb 11th, written on Hesperides whilst going up the Beagle Channel Posted in Ushuaia, March 4th. Hopefully, if the electric and internet works today… Weddle seals and crab eater seals lie littered around the beaches of Deception Island like massive turds, often with a slug like trail in the sand where they have hauled themselves… Continue reading Antarctic Animals Part 2: Mostly Seals . →

When I visited the Arctic the cry of the Arctic Tern punctuated every move and here at the bottom of the world it is just the same. Every day I hear that unmistakable squawk and can easily spot the elegant swooping shape of the little white Tern with its black cap. (They weigh approx 130kg… Continue reading Antarctic Animals Part One: Birds →

A few people asked me to explain further about what I'm doing here, what Michelle and Sarah are working on and why.  I thought I'd show some more of our day to day sampling activities. I don’t know about you but I thought I knew about food webs. Food webs describe the relationship between animals… Continue reading Investigating Food Webs →

2nd February 2019 The reason we are at Deception Island is to take samples and collect data in order to make predictions about how future climate change might affect food webs. We are taking samples from terrestrial, freshwater and brackish (salty/fresh mix) intertidal locations and testing all sorts of things at those sites on a… Continue reading Sampling for science →

28th January 2019 It is amazing how quickly a mystery place becomes home. Only six days ago I arrived here from the Spanish polar research vessel Hesperides, having climbed down the terrifying rope ladder wearing a dry suit made for a giant which made me feel claustrophobic and unable to move my limbs or head.… Continue reading Spanish Antarctic base Gabriel de Castilla →

20th Jan 2019 On board Spanish Polar Research Vessel RV Hesperides. Crossing Drake Passage. Commanding Officer: Emilio Regodon Diary report: Drake Passage, next to Cape Horn, is the roughest crossing in the world so I have been preparing to experience the ship’s bows smashing down onto crashing waves and surging swells tossing and rolling us… Continue reading RV Hesperides →

Well this has been an interesting start to 2019. I’m off to Antarctica! Just before Christmas I had an email from Michelle, one of the scientists I met in the Arctic. She told me that one of the researchers had dropped out from the expedition she is leading to Antarctica, would I like to go… Continue reading Antarctic Adventure →

Things are getting very exciting in the studio. I have just signed my first edition of Giclee prints. The ever popular Whose Bot Did What? painting is now available as an archival quality Giclee print, signed and numbered by my good self, in an edition of 30. It is printed on a thick luscious luxury… Continue reading Exhibition Time! →