Seasonal Movements and Diving of Ringed Seals, Pusa hispida, in the Western Canadian Arctic, 1999–2001 and 2010–11

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Harwood, Lois A., Smith, Thomas G., Auld, James C., Melling, Humfrey, Yurkowski, David J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2015
• Subjects: ringed seal; satellite telemetry; Amundsen Gulf; Prince Albert Sound; Beaufort Sea; sea ice; diving; foraging; phoque annelé; télémesure satellitaire; golfe Amundsen; détroit de Prince-Albert; mer de Beaufort; glace de mer; plongée; alimentation; Arctic; Canada; Melville Sound; Mer de Beaufort; Minto Inlet; Northwest Territories; Prince of Wales Strait; Ulukhaktok; Viscount Melville Sound; Inuvialuit; Pusa hispida; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67521

Satellite-linked time-depth recorders were deployed on 17 ringed seals in early summer in 1999, 2000, and 2010, near the Inuvialuit community of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. The main objective was to investigate movements and diving behaviour of ringed seals in the Prince Albert Sound...