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News Release 06-042
Bering Sea Ecosystem Responding to Changes in Arctic Climate
Effects could extend from base of food chain to native hunters
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Arctic ice conditions have major impacts on both the creatures who live on the sea bottom and the predators who subsist on them.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation
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Jackie Grebmeier, an NSF-funded researcher at the University of Tennesee, prepares sediment samples taken from Arctic waters as part of the Western Shelf-Basin Interactions research project.
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CDTs, such as this one deployed by researchers on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy sample such factors as salinity and temperature of Arctic waters.
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Small bottom-dwelling creatures such as these form the base of the Arctic food chain.
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Much of the research into changes in the Bering Sea was conducted cooperatively with Canadian scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Credit: Jackie Grebmeier, University of Tennessee
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