Ocean Watch
"Ocean Watch" is a 64-foot, steel-hulled sailboat on a 25,000 mile clockwise circumnavigation of the Americas "to draw attention to climate change and altering ocean conditions", reports the Providence (RI) Journal.
For 9 months it will conduct experiments and "scientifically take the pulse of the oceans' health".
Elementary schools in Washington and elsewhere are following the "Ocean Watch" at www.aroundtheamericas.org.
Researcher George "Divoky has returned to a tiny spit of Alaskan gravel called Cooper Island for 30 years to study the nesting habits of the seabird black guillemots. Divoky told the crew he had seen only one polar bear on Cooper Island between 1975 and 2002. The bears prefer to hunt seals on pack ice. But now that the pack ice is melting, Divoky said he had seen bears on the island every year since 2003, where they eat the bird’s eggs and fledglings and roam around his small cabin."
For 9 months it will conduct experiments and "scientifically take the pulse of the oceans' health".
Elementary schools in Washington and elsewhere are following the "Ocean Watch" at www.aroundtheamericas.org.
Researcher George "Divoky has returned to a tiny spit of Alaskan gravel called Cooper Island for 30 years to study the nesting habits of the seabird black guillemots. Divoky told the crew he had seen only one polar bear on Cooper Island between 1975 and 2002. The bears prefer to hunt seals on pack ice. But now that the pack ice is melting, Divoky said he had seen bears on the island every year since 2003, where they eat the bird’s eggs and fledglings and roam around his small cabin."
Labels: global climate change, Ocean Watch, pack ice, Polar bear, Providence Journal, seals
posted by Russ Williams at
9:27 AM
1 Comments:
The arctic ice is not melting! The ice reached its minimum extent and is 580,000 sq. kilometers greater than 2008. And it's 970,000 sq. kilometers greater than 2007.
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