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New technology methods, including tiny computer chips placed under the penguins' skin, are coming along but aren't yet ready for prime time, says Boersma.

Study: Banded penguins die sooner, skewing climate data 2011

"Their study shows that the bands they used on King penguins were a problem," Boersma, who studies Magellenic penguins, wrote in an e-mail.

Are Penguin Tracking Bands Actually Harming The Birds? AP 2011

Phil Boersma helped them out of the Fourth Division, Tommy Smith the Third and Ian Callaghan played a vital role in establishing the club in the Second Division before their last push to the First.

Swansea City seek an opening-day reprise 30 years after | Rob Bagchi 2011

By satellite-tagging the penguins, Dr. Boersma proved that the ships and the penguins navigated the same waters.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

They also hope to get the shipping lanes moved, as conservation biologist Dr. Dee Boersma has done in Argentina.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

For the last twenty-five years, Boersma has been studying Magellanic penguins, a species that has long been afflicted by the same chronic oiling that is harming African penguins to whom they are closely related.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

Help Dr. Boersma save the highly threatened population of Magellanic penguins in Argentina.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

"The most probable explanation is that the creatures were hauled aboard boats – probably fishing boats -- in southern waters and were kept by the crews as the vessels traveled far to the north, then were released, concludes a new research paper by Dee Boersma, a UW biology professor noted for her penguin studies, and Amy Van Buren, a UW doctoral student in biology." ...

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

Boersma, married to a pharmaceutical rep, is a stay-at-home mom with a 6-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy, and a college graduate with a communications degree.

The Curious Lives of Surrogates 2008

Update: As Peter Boersma reminds me in a comment, Tom Vanderwal has been working with the “personal infocloud” idea for quite some time.

inkblurt · Calm Technology discussed at IA Retreat 2005