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Arctic Projects
SHEBA | SBI
Food Webs | SBI Shelf-Basin
Exchange
Biological Research at the SHEBA Ice Camp
Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert Campbell, University of Rhode Island
During 1997-1998 I conducted zooplankton research at the SHEBA ice
camp. The SHEBA (Surface
Heat Exchange Budget of the Arctic) project described the atmospheric,
water column, and sea ice and snow conditions that modulate heat
flux in the Arctic. To do so, a ship was frozen into the ice in
the Beaufort Sea north of Barrow, Alaska with multiple, smaller
facilities set up on the surrounding ice. Several biological oceanography
programs also were conducted at SHEBA in collaboration with the
Canadian Joint Ocean Ice Study. We traveled to the ice camp four
times to conduct intensive sampling of the dominant copepods for
distribution and size (morphometric, weight, carbon, and nitrogen)
measurements and to conduct experiments to measure the vital rates
(reproduction, growth, development) of these animals.
This project was funded by the National
Science Foundation. |
