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University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist to lead sea ice expedition
04-02-2007 · EurekAlert!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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University of Alaska Fairbanks climate scientist John Walsh is among the lead authors of the second volume of the Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The volume, "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability," analyzes how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. It also examines future effects of climate change and how adaptation can reduce those effects. Walsh was a lead author of the chapter on polar regions.
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