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Arctic Buildings17 viewsEven if materials didn't need to be housed within a building, storing them outside also posed difficulties. Supplies were stacked on fuel barrels to elevate them above the snow and to protect them from melt water during summer. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings18 viewsAlthough summers posed the hazards of melt water, the winters posed problems with deeply drifting snow. In winter, windblown snow had to be cleared from the entrance of this aerological (radiosounding) hut. Image credit: EWG.
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Taking Scientific Measurements17 viewsA ruler measures the ice freeboard, or the height of the ice above the water. Ice draft, on the other hand, is the depth of the ice below the surface of the water. Notice the elongated crystals. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears26 viewsThe three dogs try to prevent the polar bear from coming out of the water, but the bear moves quickly and escapes into the icy terrain. Image credit: EWG.
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269 views1971 AIDJEX pilot study. The University of Washington boundary-layer studies used divers to assemble current-meter masts under the water and to map under-ice topography
Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
AIDJEX Web site
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338 viewsView from beneath of diver descending. (University of Washington boundary-layer studies.) 1971 AIDJEX pilot study
Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
AIDJEX Web site
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Scienc on a Sub91 viewsScientist performing chemistry analysis of Arctic Ocean water by pouring it into a filtration assembly during SCICEX 98. Photo courtesy of ASL.
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302 viewsThe team finally reached the coast, the end of the traverse.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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320 viewsThe team finally reached the coast, the end of the traverse.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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177 viewsMuch of northern Alaska is covered in boreal forest and tundra.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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214 viewsOpen water and thin ice are hard to see in the flat light and poor visibility.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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192 viewsA dog team hugs the coast to avoid the wide expanse of water and thin ice.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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