But life may not wait for the ice to retreat, after all. Scientists visiting the continental shelf of the Chukchi Sea between Siberia and Alaska last July discovered a bright green bloom of ...

But that’s not what Kevin Arrigo saw a few years back. He was in the Chukchi Sea for a research cruise funded by NASA. Arrigo: "The deeper we went into the ice, the more phytoplankton there were.

but field observations are an essential part of understanding the plankton in the ocean, and fieldwork is what I am best at. My research focuses on the Chukchi Sea, which is a part of the Arctic ...

Although the researchers examined a small portion of the Chukchi Sea, they believe that in roughly 25 percent of the Arctic, conditions are ripe for similar plankton mega-blooms. The possibility ...

Plankton make tasty treats for bowhead whales ... depend on for food. Since the Chukchi Sea is frozen most of the year, the scientists don’t have much time. Companies have been producing ...

The first comprehensive survey of the Chukchi Sea ecosystem got underway last week ... a net along the seafloor to collect everything from plankton all the way up to large fish.

A group of researchers has embarked on the first comprehensive study of marine life in the eastern Chukchi Sea near Alaska ... to look at the oceanography, plankton, fish and crab in the region ...

Increasing ocean temperatures and declining sea ice extent may have meant that more of these plankton and other prey are present in the Chukchi Sea, leading the bowheads to change their migrations.

Melting ice provides nutrients that fuel plankton blooms when sunlight is ... in ocean sediments in the Chukchi Sea, north of the Bering Strait. Unlike the nourishing blooms that bring life ...

Experts were shocked to find a thick, 60-mile-long "phytoplankton megabloom" under Arctic sea ice, announcing in a study Thursday that ice made thinner by warming temperatures has, for now at ...

In the past 30 years, plankton-eating baleen whales–humpbacks, fins and minkes–have begun to venture into parts of the Arctic such as the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Siberia, where sea ice ...

The Bering Sea is part of the North Pacific Ocean south of the Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia, while the Chukchi Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean just north of the strait.