An Arctic Kelp Community in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Dunton, Kenneth H., Reimnitz, Erk, Schonberg, Susan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1982
• Subjects: Kelps; Marine biology; Marine ecology; Sea ice ecology; Prudhoe Bay; Alaska; Stefansson Sound; Arctic; Mer de Beaufort; Stefansson; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65407

The discovery of the "Boulder Patch", an area of cobbles and boulders with attached kelp and invertebrate life, is reported from Stefansson Sound, near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Geophysical surveys using side-scan sonar and low-frequency recording fathometers reveal that cobbles and boulders oc...