GONZALO, PREMIO "JOVEN INVESTIGADOR" DE LA REVISTA NATURE JUNIOR

Nuestro primo Gonzalo ha ganado el prestigioso premio Joven Investigador, que todos los años convoca la revista Nature Junior. El premio está dotado con 9.000€ y una beca para estudiar dos cursos en la Universidad Saint Jude de Oklahoma. En la foto está recibiendo el premio de manos de la Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, acto que tuvo lugar la semana pasada. Hoy va a ser recibido en audiencia por los Reyes. (Estad atentos , porque probablemente salga en todos los telediarios).
Os ponemos un extracto de su artículo ganador: "El deshielo de los polos podría dañar gravemente a las morsas"Si queréis leerlo entero aparecerá en el próximo número de la revista.

Walrus could be harmed because of the loss of sea ice

Marine mammals may be forced to remain on land

By Gonzalo Anero Rodríguez. IES San Juan Bautista. Madrid, Spain

Gonzalo Anero studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warns there are limit to the protections they can provide.

They can restrict hunters, ship traffic and offshore petroleum activity, but that may not be enough if the animals' basic habitat (sea ice) disappears every summer.

"Ultimately it's beyond my scope," said Anero, a young walrus expert for the Spanish Fish and Wildlife Service. "I can't make ice cubes out there."

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3,000 to 4,000 mostly young walrus died this year in stampedes on land on the Russian side of the Chukchi Sea, the body of water touching Alaska and Russia just north of the Bering Strait.- continued Anero. Instead of spending the summer spread over sea ice, thousands of walruses were stranded on land in unprecedented numbers for up to three months.

If current ice trends continue, and walrus have to stay on coastlines every summer, they may put too much pressure on nearby foraging areas instead of feeding in the rich waters offshore, said Geological Survey biologist Gonzalo Anero. He added he does not understand a word about walrus; in fact it is only a joke. Look at the date.

Experts on summer sea ice say it's not likely to suddenly reappear. Arctic sea ice this summer plummeted to its lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado.