Today's episode features Clara Bird! She's currently a PhD student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, which is the perfect location because she is studying gray whale behavior using drones! And before that she went to Duke University in North Carolina and worked in the Duke Drone Lab and through that is how she ended up working with penguins, drones, and Antarctica! So we start off by talking about her background and getting into the remote sensing field, the Duke Drone Lab, and then dive into her work in Antarctica with whales and penguins. She recently had a paper published from this work, which we talk about in the episode so the link below. Enjoy! 

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You can find Clara Bird on Twitter @clarabirdferrer. 

Clara's recent paper about Adelie penguins and drones, titled "A Semi-Automated Method for Estimating Adélie Penguin Colony Abundance from a Fusion of Multispectral and Thermal Imagery Collected with Unoccupied Aircraft Systems": https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/22/3692. 

Recorded on 18 October 2020.