Sentences with phrase «after ice floes»
Residents in the historic Stockade neighborhood on the Mohawk River woke up yesterday to frozen streets after ice floes forced water over the river's banks Saturday night.
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After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.
Locked in the ice on their ship, the Endurance, after a long, dark winter, Ernest Shackleton and his men were gladdened by the sight of Adélies, seals, and whales «disporting themselves in the leads» between ice floes.
The team high - fived and hugged when they stuck the first tag onto one of the whales and «just went crazy» when it was still attached to its host's back after a nerve - wracking dive beneath an ice floe, says Ari Friedlaender, a marine mammal ecologist at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, who led the team.
The need for «sweating the details in climate discourse» came up here in 2010, after the journal Science picked a faked image of a polar bear on an ice floe to accompany a letter on the seriousness of global warming from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Just to give you another example, from my North Pole trip in 2003, here's how I described a moment standing on a shuddering, vibrating ice floe with Jim Osse, who had dived beneath the sea ice to help retrieve a string of instruments recovered after a year anchored to the seabed two and a half miles below:
They were, of course, stuck for three days in their little catamaran, after they had found a sturdy looking ice floe to weather out the storm.
That ice floe was 100 square metres (if I remember the numbers correctly) before the storm, and just 10 square metres after it.
After a long search, Barber's ice breaker finally found a 16 - km (10 - mile) wide floe of multiyear ice that was around 6 to 8 meters (20 — 26 feet) thick.