Snow Geese In North Slope: Alaska
Candle Ice 8
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Description: Brian reaches down to pick up one of the pieces of candle ice. They are like icicles.
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Candle Ice 7
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Description: Still pushing up...
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Candle Ice 6
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Description: The ice kept pushing up and over, spilling and breaking into candlestick pieces of ice.
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Candle Ice 5
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Description: The sheet of ice reached the edge of the lake and was pushing up over a huge clump of peat.
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Candle Ice 4
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Description: The ice was pushing over clumps of mud near the edge of the lake.
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Candle Ice 3
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Description: The ice was moving, too. The wind was blowing it towards us.
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Candle ice
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Description: So, we walked over to an ice covered lake nearby and could hear the ice was making the noise.
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Candle Ice
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Description: We heard a crackling noise while on our transect
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Another view of campsite
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Description:
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View of campsite
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Description: from the transect to the south.
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Turve
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Description: This is a 10cm square cut out in the large quadrat. Sometimes it is brought back to clip in the lab. If clipped in the field, it is cut out as a marker for next year's data collecting.
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Soil core sample
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Description: in a muddy, grubbed area. Notice all of the peat in the sample.
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Brian clips the vegeta...
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Description: in the small quadrat.
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The small quadrat
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Description: is tossed inside of the large one.
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Large Quadrat
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Description: used for sampling along the transect lines.
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John Shook checking nests
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Description: for eggshells, which tell him whether they were hatched or eaten!
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ABR biologists
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Description: Andrew Cyr, John Shook and Tim O
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Visitors heading for us
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Description: These are the biologists from another island.
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Biologists' tents ...
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Description: They are surveying snow goose nests.
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A sandpiper chick
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Description: was scurrying around.
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