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Drilling an ice hole in the Beaufort Sea.

Drilling an ice hole in the Beaufort Sea.
Drilling an ice hole in the Beaufort Sea.
Drilling an ice hole in the Beaufort Sea.
Drilling an ice hole in the Beaufort Sea.
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Linder, Christopher
Drilling an ice hole in the Beaufort Sea.
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08/19/2005
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John Kemp (standing) with Kris Newhall prepare to drill a hole in the ice in the Beaufort Sea, to test ice-melting equipment used to extract instruments frozen in the ice. Neil Jollymore, with rifle, is on polar bear watch whenever a team leaves the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, Louis S. St Laurent.
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Every year since 2003, researchers have traveled to the Arctic north of Alaska aboard the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent for a month to study the Beaufort Gyre. In 2005, WHOI engineers John Kemp (standing) and Kris Newhall prepared to drill into the ice to extract instruments frozen beneath. Neil Jollymore, a member of the Canadian Coast Guard, carried the rifle as a precaution while on polar bear watch. When the team heads out again this August, they will use an array of instruments to measure the environment above, below, and within the floating sea ice.
Photo by Chris Linder
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http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre
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