{"id":2132,"date":"2010-05-05T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2010-05-05T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:05:50","slug":"bering-sea-surveys-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/05\/05\/bering-sea-surveys-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Bering Sea surveys resume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nate Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Nate Jones<\/a>, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/p>\n

The seasonal ice is breaking up, and it\u2019s time once again for oceanographers to motor out into the Bering Sea to check the vital signs of the rich sub-arctic.\u00a0 This summer Brian Hoover and I (from Dr. Harvey\u2019s Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/a> <\/span>) will spend many weeks observing seabirds and marine mammals while on scientific research vessels that ply the waters of the Bering, Chukchi, and Arctic.\u00a0 We are participating in a large, coordinated research effort led by scientists from across the country and funded through the North Pacific Research Board\u2019s BEST-BSIERP <\/a>science plan.<\/p>\n

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Humpbacks and shearwaters feeding on the north side of an Aleutian pass (photo: NMML)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This plan applies research to every aspect of the marine environment \u2013 from the flow of currents and micro-nutrients, through the growth and transport of plankton, and on across an interconnected food web to include fish, seabirds, seals, walrus, whales, and even humans and our species\u2019 relationship to the oceans.<\/p>\n

Brian and I focus on marine birds and mammals for our studies.\u00a0 While on these ships we will be counting and describing the animals we encounter, entering information as we observe the activity from the wheelhouse, high above the water.\u00a0 This is a good location from which to appreciate the dynamism of these productive regions.\u00a0 In the following four months we will be posting more pictures and stories about our studies, brining you along with us as we push through ice, buck storm swells, and glide through the glassy bliss of calm seas between.\u00a0 Can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n

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A view from on high<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Nate Jones, Vertebrate Ecology Lab The seasonal ice is breaking up, and it\u2019s time once again for oceanographers to motor out into the Bering Sea to check the vital signs of the rich sub-arctic.\u00a0 This summer Brian Hoover and I (from Dr. Harvey\u2019s Vertebrate Ecology Lab ) will spend many weeks observing seabirds and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258,310],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-seabirds","tag-vertebrate-ecology-lab"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}