News From the Field University of Alaska Fairbanks Scientist to Lead Sea Ice Expedition
March 28, 2007
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Jennifer Hutchings, a research associate at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, is chief scientist on a team of researchers that will spend the next two weeks at the U.S. Navy ice camp in the Beaufort Sea studying the relationship between ice movement, stress and the overall mass of sea ice.
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Source University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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