September 29, 2021: Polar Bear
Image courtesy of Caitlin Bailey, GFOE, The Hidden Ocean 2016: Chukchi Borderlands. Download larger version (jpg, 4.8 MB).
A polar bear effortlessly crosses the ice in its Arctic home. In 2016, an international and multi-disciplinary team of scientists, media personnel, and educators sailed to the Arctic's Chukchi Borderlands onboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy. They applied an ecosystem perspective to investigate microbial communities in sea ice, water, and seafloor environments; water column (planktonic) organisms; and invertebrate and fish seafloor (benthic) communities and conducted observations of marine mammals and seabirds.
From: Welcome to the Arctic!.