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264 viewsSnow Guru Matthew Sturm poses atop Atigun Gorge.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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258 viewsDrew Slater practices his lecturing skills.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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288 viewsMark Serreze surveys the sea ice in Barrow, AK.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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277 viewsThe SnowNet team found polar bear tracks.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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308 viewsAreas that contain much permafrost can look barren. But plants and animals prosper here in the summer days, when the top layer of frozen ground thaws. The caribou in this photograph, in the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, are migrating in the early fall.
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201 viewsThe Alaska Pipeline transports oil 800 miles from the North Slope to Valdez, Alaska.
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190 viewsNSIDC director poses at the sign marking the Arctic Circle along the Dalton Highway in Alaska, during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network project.
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171 viewsSnowmobiles head north along the Dalton Highway towards the North Slope, for the 2011 Arctic Observing Network field season.
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181 viewsSnowmobiles head north along the Dalton Highway towards the North Slope, for the 2011 Arctic Observing Network field season.
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196 viewsThe sun sets over field camp during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) fieldwork.
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195 viewsThe sun sets over field camp during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) fieldwork.
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