Field Bite: Arctic Ocean

Virtual field trip to the edge of the Arctic Ice Sheet at the summer solstice, 2022. Includes photos, animations, and explanations of the shrinking Arctic Ice Sheet, types of sea ice, how sea ice forms, what it's made of, and how it differs from glaciers and icebergs, and the impacts both locally in Svalbard as well as globally.

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Produced by Katryn Wiese
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-Attribution-SA 4.0
All media produced by Katryn Wiese unless indicated below:
*Intro and exit music: used with permission © Alexis Harte
*Satellite maps: Google Earth with data from SIO, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO, USGS and Landsat/Copernicus IBCAO
*Sea ice over time -- charts and animations – NOAA, NSDIC, and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.
*Surface view map of Arctic Ocean Currents – © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, J. Cook.
*Clean Up Svalbard Logo – Governor of Svalbard
*Reflectivity of ice, land, and ocean – NASA/NSIDC
*Arctic temperature anomalies 2021 – NOAA
*Arctic Ocean Productivity – NOAA Arctic Report Card
*Main ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean, including Atlantic Water (red), Pacific Water (pink/blue) and surface water (blue) [Credit: Fig. 3 of Carmack et al., 2015; © American Meteorological Society.
*Brine in sea ice – Weeks and Assur, 1969

[tonyawoods]

Well done! Thank you for your time and efforts!😃

[edwardlulofs]

Thanks for this video.
There aren't any climate change deniers in the northern areas as the poles have had much worse changes than lower latitudes. You can talk to anyone above the arctic circle: climate change is making their lives much worse.
I have had a only a slight introduction to arctic sea ice. I was concerned about salt trapped in the sea ice. In 2003, when I visited Qikiqtarjuaq, formerly known as Broughton Island, in Nunavut, I stayed a few days in a "motel". It was little more than a mobile home, but I enjoyed my stay as I had heat and shelter from the polar bears. Then I camped outside of town for a few days. Fortunately, there was a family from town who were camped out there to do their seal hunting. They all had guns so I felt safe from the bears. I watched their hunting, and they shared some King salmon soup with me. We collected fresh water from small pools from the land fast ice. Other than snow, or bottled water from the store, it was the only fresh water available.

[KatherineLea-osuh]

A good use of your Svalbard photos. Great

[KarenUntz]

Not a word about the ever changing location of the north pole?

[debbymerickel]

Awesome. Thank you, now I can direct my family to this instead of me trying to explain!