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08/26/2010 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Walrus, Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Alaska Native Perspectives on Climate Change, Traditional Knowledge, Bering Sea, Arctic Ocean
Walrus, walrus hunters, and the study of sea ice is the focus of a [[LINK||http:// http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/10/10climatewire-another-symbol-of-the-arctics-complex-ecosyst-8466.html?pagewanted=3 ||New York Times Climate Wire story|||| target=']] by Lauren Morello that portrays the long-term dependence of Yupik and Inupiat hunters on the Pacific walrus for the meat, bone tools, skins to cover boats, gutskin clothing, clothing in the context of a rapidly-warming Arctic which is changing the icescape upon which both walruses and people depend. The behavior of sea ice is no longer predictable.  MORE >>

08/25/2010 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean
The National Sea and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported that a surge in late winter ice growth resulted in a delay of one week in the onset of ice melt in the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian, and Bering seas, compared to the 1979-2000 average.  MORE >>

04/27/2010 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Weather Patterns, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean
The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature was the warmest on record at 56.3°F (13.5°C), which is 1.39°F (0.77°C) above the 20th century average of 54.9°F (12.7°C). Additionally, the National Sea Ice Data Center reported that Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year on March 31, 2010, at 15.25 million square kilometers (5.89 million square miles).  MORE >>

02/01/2010 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Bering Sea, Changing Alaska Marine Ecosystems, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Changes in Ocean Current Systems, Ocean Acidification, Humpback Whales, Herring
The evidence of climate change presented for Alaska's seas at the 2010 AMSS included effects of both warmer years than on average and colder years than on average as well as evidence that different areas and species will respond differently to climate change.  MORE >>

02/01/2010 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Bowhead Whale, Gray Whale, Warlus, Arctic Ocean, Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean, Alaska Marine Ecosystems, Marine Ecosystem Science
NOAA scientist Sue Moore reported at the 2010 Alaska Marine Science Symposium on a study that related the changes in Arctic sea ice extent with the movements and habitats of polar bears, walruses, and gray whales in the Pacific side of the Arctic region.  MORE >>

12/18/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice
Over the decade's first nine years, global temperatures averaged 0.6 degrees Celsius (1.1 degrees F) higher than the 1951-1980 average, NASA reported. And temperatures rose faster in the far north than anyplace else on Earth.  MORE >>

12/18/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Sea Ice, Polar Bear
How global warming is changing Polar bear populations in Russia and why humans care.  MORE >>

12/04/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Arctic Ocean, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Climate Change, Ocean Acidification
Two scientific journal articles published in November, 2009, related the extent of sea ice melt to undersaturation of aragonite which is required for shell-building by many plankton and invertebrate species in Arctic waters. A combination of processes are now working to increase acidification and lower the concentrations of forms of calcite used for shell-building: **increased carbon dioxide in the ocean from anthropogenic sources, **freshening and dilution as ice melts, **increased biological activity after the ice melts which takes up calcite from surface waters and depletes it in subsurface waters as organic matters decays and produced CO2, and **upwellings of low pH waters.  MORE >>

12/03/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Climate Change, Arctic Ocean
Arctic sea ice has duped satellites into reporting thick multiyear sea ice where in fact none exists, a new study by University of Manitoba researcher David Barber has found. In 2008 and 2009 satellite data showed a growth in Arctic sea ice extension leaving some to reckon global warming was reversing. But after sailing an ice breaker to the southern Beaufort Sea this past September Dr. Barber and his colleagues found something unexpected: thin, "rotten" ice can electromagnetically masquerade as thick, multiyear sea ice. And contrary to what satellites recently suggested, we are actually speeding up the loss of the remaining, healthy, multiyear sea ice.  MORE >>

11/23/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Arctic Ocean, Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice
National Sea Ice Data Center newsletter provides information on Arctic sea ice coverage and the changes over the years.  MORE >>

11/02/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Temperature Patterns,Communicating about Climate Change,Changing Arctic Sea Ice,
Summaries fo the findings by NOAA on the condition of the Arctic  MORE >>

11/02/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean, Carbon Cycling,
According to a new study, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under current predictions of global warming, this Arctic sink could be diminished or reversed, potentially accelerating predicted rates of climate change.  MORE >>

10/12/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change. Sea Level Rise, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Ocean Acidification, Changing Species Distributions
Science report shows climate change coming faster and sooner and underlines urgency for Governments to seal the deal in Copenhagen  MORE >>

10/12/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean, Traditional Knowledge, Arctic Ocean
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 melting. The result could be a reprieve, at least for a while, from the recent stretch of remarkable summer meltdowns.  MORE >>

10/12/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean, Water Temperature Patterns
The National Climatic Data Center has released its review of worldwide sea surface temperatures for August and for the stretch from June through August and finds that both the month and the “summer” (as looked at from the Northern Hemisphere) were the warmest at least since 1880, when such records were first systematically compiled.  MORE >>

10/11/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Arctic Ocean, Climate Change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice
Two German cargo ships have successfully navigated across Russia's Arctic-facing northern shore from South Korea to Siberia without the help of icebreakers  MORE >>

10/11/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Walrus, Climate Change, Arctic Ocean, Changing Arctic Sea Ice
Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change.  MORE >>

10/11/2009 | Marilyn Sigman, Alaska SeaGrant/MAP
Tags: Walrus, Salmon, Gray Whale, Polar Bear, Ringed Seal, Climate change, Changing Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Ecosystems, Alaska Marine Ecosystems,
Scientists carrying out studies of wildlife in the Arctic say global warming is causing dramatic changes in animal and plant life, threatening some species with extinction. The report is a compilation of studies of Arctic ecosystems by an international team of scientists who have been collaborating during the fourth International Polar Year, which ended in 2008  MORE >>