5 articles
Sugar kelp under six months of sea ice, belugas in the estuary and a lengthening summer: a guide to the subarctic kelp fringe of Hudson Bay's Churchill coast.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Four volcanic islands on the Bering Sea shelf — half the world's northern fur seals, millions of seabirds, sea ice to the doorstep, and kelp along the rims.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Sea ice forms, grows and melts on the ocean itself, reshaping light, salt and circulation. How it forms, why algae bloom under it, and what its retreat means for kelp.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
How polar kelp survives months of darkness: the physiology of Arctic forests, light under sea ice, carbohydrate hoarding and the mad sprint of spring.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The Arctic's first bloom happens in the dark, inside the sea ice. How sympagic algae prime the polar food web — and why thinning ice changes it all.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·