Raghu Murtugudde (ESSIC / AOSC) was featured in an August Livescience post entitled, “Using Loopholes, Nature May Save Galápagos Penguins.” The post discusses a recent Murtugudde Geophysical Research Letters publication which analyzed the impact of eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface cooling on Galápagos Penguin populations. Murtugudde was also quoted in a recent article in the Calcutta, India publication, The Telegraph, regarding projections that the currently developing El Nino may prove to be the strongest event on record.
<http://www.livescience.com/52025-penguins-in-galapagos-get-boost-by-shifting-ocean-currents.html>
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150824/jsp/knowhow/story_38712.jsp>
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
