Weddell Seal Science

Multimedia eBook author Jeremy Schmidt reads from our beautiful interactive eBook "Weddell Seals" about the lives of the Weddell seals of icy Erebus Bay, Antarctica.

We open our 2024 Weddell Seal Population Study podcast with an interview with Prof. Jay Rotella on the goals for this Weddell seal pupping season in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, and an introduction to philopatry in this amazing iconic marine mammal, the southernmost breeding mammal on our planet.

"Weddell Seals" multimedia eBook author and creator Jeremy Schmidt reads an excerpt on Antarctic Heroic Era naturalist, Dr. Edward A. Wilson, and his vividly accurate description of encountering Weddell seals. Natural history writer and photographer Jeremy Schmidt is a multimedia specialist with the Weddell Seal Population Project. More information on the project and the new FREE multimedia ebook are available at WeddellSealScience.com.

Weddell Population Project PhD Student Kaitlin Macdonald recently published a fascinating new paper on Weddell seal population dynamics. Kaitlin is lead author on this paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. She and co-author Prof. Jay Rotella discuss the findings of this recent study in our latest Weddell Seal Science podcast.

In this episode, writer and photographer Jeremy Schmidt gives a brief reading from our new multimedia eBook, "Weddell Seals" on Mark-Recapture, a data analysis method used by the Weddell Seal Population Project to estimate population sizes and abundance. Our new eBook is now available for FREE from Apple Books, Google Play Books, and as a direct download at our website, WeddellSealScience.com. We hope you enjoy this podcast!

The 2023 Weddell seal pupping season in Erebus Bay, Antarctica begins as the 2023 field research team heads to The Ice, and lead scientist Professor Jay Rotella discusses plans and goals for the 2023 Antarctica field research season. Learn more at WeddellSealScience.com. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Working as a team, adorable Weddell seal pups, a very cool pup named Milky, and that infernal wind: 2022 field research team members interview themselves in Antarctica on takeaways from this amazing Weddell seal pupping season. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

It's Thanksgiving week and the 2022 Antarctica field team is in the midst of surveying all of the Weddell seals in the Erebus Bay, Antarctica study area. So many seals and pups this season! Lead scientist Dr. Jay Rotella describes this aspect of the team's work, and some of the surprising findings this season.

As the Antarctica field research team shifts work from finding, tagging and recording all the moms and new pups born this season in the Erebus Bay study area to surveying the entire Weddell seal population in the study area, lead scientist Dr. Jay Rotella describes this next stage of the field team's work this Weddell seal pupping season.

Members of our 2022 Antarctica field research team interview each other about working in Antarctica with Weddell seals, what they've learned, and what surprised them most. We hope you enjoy the podcast!