University of California-San Diego

Changing Arctic

Researchers Study How Warm, Subsurface Water Affects Accelerated Arctic Sea-ice Melt

Tim Ellis

A near-record year for Arctic Ocean sea-ice retreat – and researchers are on site to study why …Scientists aboard the Arctic Research Vessel Sikuliaq say…
Changing Arctic

Sikuliaq: Newest U.S. Arctic Research Vessel ‘Does Things No Other Ship Can Do’

Tim Ellis

A progress report on the nation’s newest polar research ship...Sea ice more than 2 feet thick buckles under the National Science Foundation’s newest…