{"id":2182,"date":"2010-06-27T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2010-06-27T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T20:19:38","slug":"icy-spring-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/06\/27\/icy-spring-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Icy Spring Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author: Nate Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s early June, and there\u2019s still ice in the Bering Sea!\u00a0 This year the seasonal ice cover has persisted late into the \u201cspring\u201d time.\u00a0 Much later than in recent years.\u00a0 In fact, it hasn\u2019t felt much like springtime here on the water; it\u2019s snowed (or, is it frozen fog?) on many days, and the mercury in the thermometer outside pools listlessly at about the 32F mark, even at high noon.\u00a0 To be sure, the ice is melting, breaking up into pancakes, jumbled, layered, and amalgamated by spring storm waves and wind\u2026 but, sloowwly, slowly\u2026\u00a0 the water is still cold; as cold as the ice itself.\u00a0 A reluctant catalyst, at best.<\/p>\n

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(ice) pancakes, anyone? It's June 2nd...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are surveying on the R\/V Thomas Thompson, a University of Washington UNOLS<\/a> ship.\u00a0 This is an ice-reinforced vessel, so we can push (carefully!) through this kind of cold slurry in search of oceanographic data.\u00a0 The scientists on this cruise are primarily interested in measuring the physics and chemistry of the spring ice retreat, and the rich plankton communities that tend to bloom and grow during this transition time.\u00a0 Like the first spring buds and shoots of green in a garden, the explosion of microscopic marine algae, diatoms, and copepods forms the base of a food web that will sustain all the fish we eat, and the seabirds, seals, and sea lions that also depend on them.\u00a0 So, this is a very important time of year in the Bering Sea!<\/p>\n

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Sea Ice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It\u2019s early June, and there\u2019s still ice in the Bering Sea!\u00a0 This year the seasonal ice cover has persisted late into the \u201cspring\u201d time.\u00a0 Much later than in recent years.\u00a0 In fact, it hasn\u2019t felt much like springtime here on the water; it\u2019s snowed (or, is it frozen fog?) on many days, and the mercury […]<\/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-2182","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\/2182","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=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}