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Researchers crack the ice to study the Arctic marine food web
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:03:44
Publish Date: 2014-11-12 23:00:00
Description: A team of marine ecologists traveled to a town near the top of the world to study a creature at the bottom of the marine food chain--microscopic sea ice algae. Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, where the team of scientists gears up to hit the sea ice, desolate terrain that is actually teaming with marine life. With support from the National Science Foundation, Craig Aumack of Columbia University and the others have come here to investigate how algae in the sea ice contributes to the underlying marine ecosystems, and which marine organisms depend on them for nutrition.
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