Sentences with phrase «through ice floes»

Veteran naturalists such as author Stefan Lundgren lead hikes past penguin colonies, Zodiac land excursions, and kayak tours through ice floes, where you'll spot leopard seals and the occasional orca.

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Each zodiac, driven by a member of the expedition team who guided us through the rubble of Antarctica's melting ice, allowed us the opportunity to cruise through the ice, spotting seals snoozing on the floes.

Guide both characters in single - player mode or play cooperatively with a friend or family member as you trek through frozen tundra, leap across treacherous ice floes, swim through underwater ice caverns, and face numerous enemies both strange and familiar in the journey to save the girl's village.

That approach is being promoted by a team of climate scientists and biologists, led by Stephanie Pfirman of Barnard College, who have proposed that Arctic nations develop a conservation plan creating a «sea ice refuge» from northwest Greenland west into Canada's Arctic archipelago where thick floes routinely persist through the summer, and are expected to persist through this century.

The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe.

(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting polar bear conservation efforts there.)

The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea - ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiIce Data Center released its summary of summer sea - ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of melting.

Younger and thinner ice now allows a more rapid transit of floes through the pack.

As reported by Don Perovich aboard the Healy, there is widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it runs through, then underneath, the ice and comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, adding on layers of newly formed ice to the bottom of floes during the melt season.

Field observations and a drifting buoy tracking through the region also reveal that widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, has added ice layers to the bottom of floes, slowing down thinning and melt of the ice cover.

A large floe in Robeson Channel is also blocking the flow of multi-year ice through Nares Strait.