Sentences with phrase «under the sea ice»

For example, biologists have known for years that juvenile polar cod live under the sea ice.

Using ocean SST under the sea ice would certainly make a difference, but that wouldn't be clever.

There have been hints that there's more biological productivity in the Arctic Ocean than once suspected (perhaps helped along by climate change): In 2012, scientists reported seeing massive blooms of algae proliferating under the sea ice.

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

The tag data showed that the minkes did most of their feeding under the sea ice, often skimming just below the frozen water while rapidly snapping up krill swarms — a feeding style seen in no other whale, Friedlaender and his colleagues report online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

The installations also highlighted the importance of understanding meteorological conditions at the top of the planet as submarines patrolled under the sea ice, cruise missiles were tested in the Canadian Arctic, and Western and Soviet governments built up their air forces in Arctic bases.

The robot can film; take pictures and work under the sea ice tethered to the ship by a fine glass fiber as thin as hair.

The occurrences of lunar migrations happen every winter at all sites, even under sea ice with snow cover on top.»

The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (FPA2) are jointly promoting a Polar Challenge, which will reward the first team to complete a 2000 km continuous mission with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle under the sea ice in the Arctic or Antarctic.

In turn, the crustacean primarily feeds on diatoms that grow directly on or under the sea ice.

The satellites can not peer into or under sea ice, which goes from paper thin in some places to several meters thick, says Katrin Schmidt, a krill ecologist at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom who led the study, published this week in Biogeosciences.