Sentences with phrase «southern beaufort»

Searching for homes in southern Beaufort County?

There is no evidence that record - low summer sea ice in 2012 had a harmful effect on Southern Beaufort bear numbers.

Even though 2012 had the longest open - water period in the Southern Beaufort since at least 1979 (see Fig. 4), researchers doing mark - recapture work in the area did not report large numbers of starving bears during the summer of 2012 or in the spring of 2013.

They want publicity but they certainly don't want the public to realize how poor were their previous pessimistic predictions regarding how polar bears would respond to low summer sea ice; or notice how nearly all polar bear photos published in recent years show fat healthy animals; or observe that healthy triplet cubs (a rare phenomenon that supposedly no longer exists in Western Hudson Bay, where they used to be common) have been photographed in Western Hudson Bay (2017), Southern Beaufort Sea (2016) and the Chukchi Sea.

Even in regions where bears are reportedly under stress (e.g. Southern Beaufort, Western Hudson Bay, Barents Sea), we have not had any further reports of cannibalism or den - collapse deaths, either through the media or in the published literature.

Between 1979 and 1987, 138 bears were spotted in the southern Beaufort Sea region of Alaska.

Variation in winter diet of southern Beaufort Sea polar bears inferred from stable isotope analysis

The dramatically low September sea ice of 2012 had apparently no effect on Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears, or at least we have heard nothing to indicate any adverse effects.

Mark - recapture data collection continued until 2013 in the Southern Beaufort — they reported data up to 2010 only.

For years, I've worried that the inevitable next episodes of thick Southern Beaufort spring ice would cause problems for polar bears and seals but we wouldn't know it because whatever effects were documented would be blamed on reduced summer ice: I suspect that time may have come.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see below)?

Since then, both populations have recovered, and the population estimates currently used for management purposes are 1200 and 1800 for the Northern and Southern Beaufort populations, respectively.

Schliebe, S., K. D. Rode, J. S. Gleason, J. Wilder, K. Proffitt, T. J. Evans, and S. Miller, 2008: Effects of sea ice extent and food availability on spatial and temporal distribution of polar bears during the fall open - water period in the Southern Beaufort Sea.

It shows just what lengths desperate IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) biologists will go to in order to link the recent decline of Southern Beaufort bear numbers to global warming while ignoring similar past declines.

Relative to recent years and potential impacts on polar bear health and survival in Canada, there is nothing alarming in the pattern or speed of sea ice breakup for 2017, either over Hudson Bay, the southern Beaufort, or the eastern high Arctic.

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Barber et al.: In situ observations from Canadian Research Icebreaker (NGCC) Amundsen indicate that the multi-year sea ice pack in the Southern Beaufort Sea was not as ubiquitous as it appeared within satellite remote sensing data products in early September 2009.

Moving on to the Southern Beaufort Sea (SB), we discover the comment that «Estimated risk of future decline is based on vital rates estimated from the 2001 - 2006 data used in matrix - based demographic models that incorporate sea ice forecasts».

But in two of these seven populations (Davis Strait and Southern Beaufort Sea) there was good evidence from actual population studies that numbers were increasing, which was overturned in the final analysis by «estimates» of decline.

Diet of female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea of Alaska: evidence for an emerging alternative foraging strategy in response to environmental change.

Thick multi-year ice is likely to persist in the southern Beaufort and eastern Chukchi seas.

An interesting feature in both images is the tongue of old sea ice (red) extending into the southern Beaufort Sea.

This is consistent with the June statistical and heuristic forecasts submitted by Tivy and Pokrovsky, which also suggest more ice in the southern Beaufort Sea compared to previous years.

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

The outlook submitted by Pokrovsky also points to more ice in the southern Beaufort Sea compared to previous years.

Similar to 2007 there is anomalously large bottom melt in the southern Beaufort Sea and on the Bering Strait side of the North Pole.

In addition, the persistence of regional features (such as above - normal multi-year ice concentrations compared to recent years in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas) and geographic constraints (such as the confinement of ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago) can lend predictive skill to forecasts.

CS, Chukchi Sea; SB, Southern Beaufort; Central Arctic = parts of Gulf of Boothia and M'Clintock Channel; High Arctic = Lancaster Sound.

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This emphasizes the fact that the primary problem faced by Southern Beaufort sea polar bears is not scarce summer ice but by thick sea ice conditions in the spring.

It provides some very interesting details on the status of Chukchi Sea bears compared to bears in the Southern Beaufort, and contains some mighty «inconvenient» conclusions that should raise some eyebrows.

One aspect of the recently published study on Chukchi Sea polar bears (Rode et al. 2014 [now in print] 2013; see here and here) has not been stressed enough: their finding that the differences in overall condition between bears in the Chukchi and Southern Beaufort Seas came down to disparities in spring feeding opportunities and therefore, the condition of spring sea ice.

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This (2007) was the fall before the Rode & Regehr study on Chukchi / Southern Beaufort polar bears began (2008 - 2011).

Good news for Southern Beaufort polar bears!

Long - distance swimming events by adult female polar bears in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi seas

After all, the computer models used to predict a dire future for polar bears combined the Chukchi Sea with the Southern Beaufort, as having similar ice habitats («ice ecoregions»).

Sea ice maps from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) tell most of the story about what the media were, and were not, told about summer sea ice in the Southern Beaufort between 2001 and 2013.

A bit more good news about polar bear populations, this time from an abundance study in the Southern Beaufort Sea.

Investigation of sea ice concentrations support this hypothesis with the emergence of lower ice concentration bands in the southern Beaufort Sea in May 2012 within an increasingly heterogeneous sea ice cover in the Arctic.

«However, summer sea ice conditions in the southern Beaufort Sea have changed considerably over the last 20 to 30 years, such that there is much more open water during summer and fall.

* Monitor polar bear populations and trends * Study polar bear feeding ecology * Work cooperatively with the Alaska Nanuuq Commission and the North Slope Borough for co-management of polar bears in Alaska * Provide technical assistance to the participants of the 1988 North Slope Borough Inuvialuit (In new vee al u it) Game Council Agreement for the conservation of polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region and monitor the effects of oil and gas operations in the Beaufort Sea region.

In a phone interview this morning, the lead author, Anthony Pagano, noted that the bear population in the study region, the southern Beaufort Sea, appears to be stable at about 1,500 animals.

The paper, «Long - distance swimming by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the southern Beaufort Sea during years of extensive open water,» is published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology.

A young polar bear sitting on the shore in southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

Not exact matches

[font = Century Gothic] «Beaufort» takes place at a medieval fort in southern Lebanon which was captured by the Israeli army in 1982 in a controversial battle.

Beaufort West Hospital is a district hospital operating in the Central Karoo Health District of the Southern Cape Region.

Take a step back in time as we visit scenic Beaufort, and explore what life was like living on a southern plantation.