Eye on the Wild
A selection of images by postdoc Jeff Kerby
“Photos are great for telling stories, but they’re also fantastic sources of scientific data,” says National Geographic explorer Jeff Kerby, whose research as a postdoctoral fellow in Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science examines the impact of climate change on the ecology of Arctic tundra. Kerby has also used cameras to document animal behavior in the Ethiopian Highlands and joined the environmental studies foreign studies program in southern Africa to assist undergraduates with drone photography.
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“I sat for 35 minutes waiting for this guy to yawn,” says Kerby, who took this shot of a male gelada monkey on a foggy morning in the Ethiopian Highlands.
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A pod of beluga whales swims near the coastline of Qikiqtarjuaq Island in Canada.
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An abandoned Anglican mission house sits meters above sea level in the Canadian Arctic.
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A family of gelada monkeys rises at dawn on a cliff in the Ethiopian Highlands.
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Clouds from the Great Rift Valley spill over onto the alpine plateau in central Ethiopia.
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Kerby captured this image of dune patterns in the Namib Sand Sea while accompanying undergrads on the environmental studies foreign studies program in southern Africa.
