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Homepage  Images: Seabirds Face Risks from Climate Change  WHOI
biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier, holding an Antarctic snow
petrel, is investigating the impacts of climate change on
seabirds. She incorporates data on seabird's lifestyles with
myriad interlocking environmental factors to construct
mathematical models that can project how seabirds' populations
will fare in the future. (Photo courtesy of Stephanie
Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)  Many seabirds
nest on tiny sub-Antarctic islands such as the Crozet and
Kerguelen Islands. Stephanie Jenouvrier collaborates with French
research teams that have monitored these bird colonies for
decades. In Novenber 2012 she made an unexpected stay on Île de
la Possession in the southern Indian Ocean. (Eric Taylor, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution)  Seabirds such as these black-
browed albatrosses are iconic sights in the Southern Ocean, but
they face an uncertain future. These far-rangi