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Drifting With the Ice: Life on an Arctic Expedition
Citation
Meyer, A, Drifting With the Ice: Life on an Arctic Expedition, National Geographic, 04 January (2016) [Media Interview]
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Official URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggPOOrGiwQ
Abstract
For five months in 2015, a team of researchers drifted with polar ice, their ship tethered to an ice floe as they collected data to help them better understand how the loss of sea ice will affect the planet. The air above the Arctic Ocean has warmed on average about 5°F in the past century—more than twice the global average—and sea ice covers less and less of it. Most researchers study the ice during the summer. This team, battling bone-chilling cold, tracked it from when it formed in winter until it started melting in spring. And occasionally found time to kick a soccer ball around the floe.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Media Interview |
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| Keywords: | Arctic, expedition, N-ICE2015, climate, sea ice, oceanography, field work, sea ice drift |
| Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
| Research Group: | Oceanography |
| Research Field: | Physical Oceanography |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Climate and Climate Change |
| Objective Field: | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) |
| UTAS Author: | Meyer, A (Dr Amelie Meyer) |
| ID Code: | 125643 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Deposited By: | Oceans and Cryosphere |
| Deposited On: | 2018-04-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-04-26 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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