Sentences with phrase «beaufort sea coast»

Ten years ago Christopher Arp (UAF) and Benjamin Jones (USGS) left from Barrow, Alaska, by snowmachine and headed 100 miles southeast along the Beaufort Sea coast to Teshekpuk Lake — Alaska's largest Arctic lake.

Facts on the Central Arctic Caribou Herd: «The Central Arctic herd migrates annually from the foothills of the Brooks Range, where it spends the fall and winter, north to the Beaufort Sea coast in the spring and summer.

Jorgenson, M.T., and J. Brown, 2005: Classification of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast and estimation of carbon and sediment inputs from coastal erosion.

In this case, researchers produced a historical model of shoreline erosion for the Kugmallit Bay area, located along the Beaufort Sea coast in the Canadian Northwest Territories and processed the photography using ESRI's ArcGIS software and the U.S. Geological Survey's Digital Shoreline Analysis System.

Not exact matches

In previously ice - rich areas such as the Beaufort Gyre off the Alaskan coast or the region south of Spitsbergen, the sea ice is considerably thinner now than it normally is during the spring.

The research program he manages, on Herschel Island in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, is at an important site for monitoring erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts, which make up a third of Earth's shores.

There are currently active leases off the southern California coast in the Gulf of Mexico and north of Alaska in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, but as part of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, new leases will only be sold in the eastern portion of the gulf until 2022 and Cook Inlet in Alaska for the next five year.

But at the same time, in a very pragmatic approach, we understand that we're going to need the petroleum products at least for the foreseeable future, and certain segments of the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea have been opened up for leases, and the companies that are up there have been doing things under a legal process and with strict review by the Department of Interior and the United States Coast Guard, and that is proceeding.

Based on studies of radio - collared polar bears of the Beaufort Sea population between 1981 and 2000, 53 dens were located on the mainland coast of Alaska and Canada.

Shell has spent $ 4.5 billion and nearly seven years obtaining leases to drill for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the Alaskan coast.

We can observe the gyre in the Beaufort Sea, offshore of the Canadian and Alaskan coasts as well as the ice flux leaving the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Straight, between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

Ice extent remains below normal everywhere in the Arctic (Figure 4), with open water developing along the coasts of northwest Canada, Alaska, and Siberia and within the ice pack in the Beaufort Sea and near the North Pole (Figure 5).

Maslanik, Tivy, Pokrovsky — below - normal ice area overall, but high concentration may remain along the coast in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas

The predictor is multi-year ice anomalies in the Beaufort Sea along the coast of the islands the previous summer (14 - month lead), which is an area of ice import into the CAA.

Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in October were unusually high over the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, as well as the Barents and Kara Seas along the Eurasian coast, helping to limit ice growth.

Personnel aboard a ship contracted by Quintillion prepare to reel out more of the fiber - optic cable the company has been burying in the floor of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off Alaska's coast since last summer.

Richter - Menge, left, and members of the NASA IceBridge Team prepare for a 2013 flight from Thule, Greenland, to the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's northeastern coast, to examine sea - ice conditions between the two poinSea, off Alaska's northeastern coast, to examine sea - ice conditions between the two poinsea - ice conditions between the two points.

Thus, ocean property profiles are key elements of the SIZRS measurement program, and we propose to provide repeated synoptic snapshots of ocean conditions across the Beaufort and Chukchi seas SIZ (BCSIZ) by launching Air eXpendable CTDs (AXCTD) and Air eXpendable Current Profilers (AXCP) during U.S. Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness (ADA) flights of opportunity.

SIZRS is a coordinated program of repeated ocean, ice, and atmospheric measurements across the Beaufort - Chukchi sea seasonal sea ice zone (SIZ) utilizing US Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness (ADA) flights of opportunity.

The change in circulation also shifted the pattern of ice motion, slowing the earlier movement of ice away from the coast in the Beaufort Sea (as depicted in our May 3rd post).

The Beaufort and Chukchi seas off the coast of Alaska contain more technically recoverable oil and natural gas than the Atlantic and Pacific coasts combined, according to government estimates.

As can be seen, May started out extremely cold in the Central Arctic Basin, with anomalously warm temps along the coasts of the Beaufort and Kara Seas.

To ensure America's future energy security, it's imperative that Arctic oil and natural gas production in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska's northern coast be included in the United States» strategic energy planning.