Using Duck Eggs to Track Climate Change
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 14:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A South Dakota State University researcher is using museum collections to assemble a metrics database on perhaps 60,000 duck eggs representing at least 40 species and subspecies of ducks found in North America. What she learns could ultimately add new knowledge about how waterfowl respond to climate cycles and long-term climate change.