Chukchi Sea

A whaler waits for the bowhead whales from shore in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, during whaling season in the Chukchi Sea. Photo by Steven J. Kazlowski/Alamy Stock Photo. In archaeology, such attitudes have limited our understanding of Arctic prehistory, says Erica Hill, a zooarchaeologist with the University of ...

"Even on the Beaufort side, beyond the shorefast ice, we're seeing a very active fracture zone now. We see from remote sensing that sea ice thickness in the Beaufort and northern Chukchi Sea is exceptionally thin compared to normal. There's (an area) 76 to 80 degrees north where, in the middle of March, ...

New Year's arrived before ice extent reached 95 percent of the Chukchi Sea basin, more than a month later than the average before the 1990s, according to the NOAA review. “A series of storms in the middle of February caused the loss of more than half of what ice had (formed),” the review states. “The was ...

Autumn freeze up occurred late this year, particularly in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska. This occurred in part because of large amounts of ocean heat being transported into the area through the Bering Strait. In addition to the delayed freeze-up, air temperatures were persistently high in the Arctic, helping to ...

On August 1, 1947, the diesel submarine USS Boarfish (SS-327), with Arctic Submarine Laboratory's founder Dr. Waldo Lyon onboard serving as an Ice Pilot, conducted the first under-ice transit of an ice floe in the Chukchi Sea. In 1958, the nuclear-powered USS NAUTILUS made the first crossing of the ...

On August 1, 1947, the diesel-electric submarine USS Boarfish, with Arctic Submarine Laboratory's founder Dr. Waldo Lyon onboard serving as an ice pilot, conducted the first under-ice transit of an ice floe in the Chukchi Sea. In 1958, the nuclear-powered USS Nautilus made the first crossing of the Arctic ...

Thirteen members of Alaska's state Senate also backed the DPP, adding that they agreed with the state's federal congressional delegation that "the strongest near-term prospective offshore program should focus on the Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea and Cook Inlet, particularly in 'high petroleum potential ...

On August 1, 1947, the diesel submarine USS Boarfish, with Arctic Submarine Laboratory's founder Waldo Lyon serving onboard as an ice pilot, conducted the first under-ice transit of an ice floe in the Chukchi Sea. USS Nautilus Makes Undersea Passage. In 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine USS ...

As the Sounder previously reported, Voice expressed particular concern about the inclusion of the Chukchi Sea coastal buffer, the Barrow Whaling Area and the Kaktovik Whaling Area, which were the same as those in Lincoln's amendment. "Meaningful consultation is key to this balance and with respect to ...

As the Sounder previously reported, Voice expressed particular concern about the inclusion of the Chukchi Sea coastal buffer, the Barrow Whaling Area and the Kaktovik Whaling Area, which were the same as those in Lincoln's amendment. "Meaningful consultation is key to this balance and with respect to ...

The case for listing the species has only grown stronger since 2011 as Arctic sea-ice extent hit numerous record lows; summer sea ice continues to disappear from the walrus's foraging grounds in the Chukchi Sea; and new models representing the international scientific consensus on climate change point ...

Environmentalists say the case for listing the species has only grown stronger since 2011, as Arctic sea-ice hit numerous record lows, summer sea ice continues to disappear from the walrus's foraging grounds in the Chukchi Sea, and new models representing the international scientific consensus on ...

In October, the Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged that climate models showing the Chukchi Sea between northwest Alaska and Russia could be ice-free in summer by 2060 but said walruses had shown an ability to adapt. “Walrus demonstrated much more ability to change their behaviors than ...

Haul-outs of 20,000 to 40,000 animals have occurred because there was no ice in the Chukchi Sea. Haul outs in large numbers make them susceptible to disease and starvation. Easily frightened on land, walrus stampedes are deadly for calves caught in the panic. America's polar bear population is also ...

In the summer of 2015, Royal Dutch Shell started exploratory drilling and seismic testing in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea. By September, it pulled out after one exploratory well proved dry. During the exploratory drilling, immeasurable noise pollution entered the dark, Arctic waters. In its application, Shell had ...

“The Kara, Laptev and Chukchi sea licenses require development plan submission within eight to 11 years from a discovery and development activities within five years of plan approval,” the filing noted. “The Black Sea exploration license extends through 2020, and a discovery is the basis for obtaining a ...

At the edge of an imperiled Alaska town, Dennis Davis sent a drone over a patchwork of ice covering the Chukchi Sea. “Some people think it's a toy, but a lot of people know that it's an actual tool,” he said of the $5,000, microwave-sized machine with a camera mounted to a carbon fiber frame.

The village has long had issues with the mine. Ore from Red Dog is transported by eighty-ton haul trucks along a 50-mile road that links the mine to a port on the Chukchi Sea south of Kivalina. There it's stored in buildings, then transferred via barges to awaiting offshore bulk carrier ships. The haul road runs ...

The draft proposes 19 lease sales in Alaska, including three sales in the Chukchi Sea, three sales in the Beaufort Sea, two sales in Cook Inlet, and one sale each in 11 other program areas. The bureau recently increased its oil estimate for the Beaufort Sea by 700 million barrels to a total of 8.9 billion ...

Subsistence hunter Dennis Davis sends his drone out over the ice on the Chukchi Sea in Shishmaref in far-western Alaska. ... frigid for most of us, but pretty good for Dennis Davis, because minus 8 means good ice formation on the Chukchi Sea surrounding his tiny island community near the Bering Strait.

... to find food in Arctic. Date: February 20, 2018; Source: University of Washington; Summary: Beluga whales that spend summers feeding in the Arctic are diving deeper and longer to find food than in earlier years, when sea ice covered more of the ocean for longer periods, according to a new analysis. Share: FULL STORY ...

"There's actually now open water in the southernmost Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait," Thoman said. The only other time on record that the Chukchi Sea has had open water this time of year was in 1989, he said. On the Atlantic side, sea ice is also low in the Barents and Greenland seas. And in ...

The Nageak whaling crew heads out on to the Chukchi Sea ice toward open water to begin their bowhead whale hunt on Sunday, April 17, 2016. ... Voice in particular raised concerns about the Chukchi Sea 25-mile coastal buffer, the Barrow Whaling Area and the Kaktovik Whaling Area, which it said ...

In the 1990s things took a turn towards cooperation with the two superpowers negotiating maritime boundaries in the Bering Strait, Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea. 7)Byers, Michael (2013) International Law and the Arctic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1. As with the hinterland doctrine during ...

Walruses gather to rest on the shores of the Chukchi Sea near the coastal village of Point Lay, Alaska. A national environmental organization seeking additional protections for Pacific walrus is suing the Trump administration for failing to list the marine mammals as a threatened species. (Ryan Kingsbery/AP).

"The ice is acting very strange all over the Arctic," said Greenpeace researcher Tim Donaghy, whose group has been focusing on the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea, off Alaska, where there are active drilling proposals. The Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of Alaska is remaining unfrozen for more than ...

Obama's executive order, in December 2016, put most of the Beaufort Sea and the entire Chukchi Sea off limits to drilling. The White House said at the time that the decision reflected "the scientific assessment that, even with the high safety standards that both our countries have put in place, the risks of an ...

At this time of year, sea ice should still be growing and expanding. But recent satellite observations have shown that two large gaps have somehow opened up in the ice. The first is in the Chukchi Sea, near Russia. The second, pictured below, is just north of Cape Morris Jesup in Greenland. The blue gaps ...

On the island of Shishmaref in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, a community of about 550 native Inupiaq people voted to relocate their village because of rising seas that have devoured any buffer between their homes and the habitually stormy ocean. Shishmaref is just one of a couple hundred native villages that the ...