A Year on the Ice: The SHEBA/JOIS Project

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Welch, Harold E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1998
• Subjects: Algae; Biological productivity; Biomagnification; Chemical oceanography; Climate change; Clouds; Gadinae; Food chain; Heat transmission; Icebreakers; Logistics; Marine biology; Marine pollution; Mercury; Oceanography; PCBs; Research; Salinity; Sea ice; Solar radiation; Suspended solids; Zooplankton; Arctic Ocean; Arctic; Canada; Lancaster Sound; Icebreaker; Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64127

Home is an icebreaker-at least for a few of us frozen into the Arctic Ocean aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Des Groseilliers. We are here as an ancillary part of SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean), the largest project that the United States National Science Foundation has funded in...