Article: Year on the ice: the SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean)/JOIS (Joint Ocean Ice Study) Project.

HOME is an icebreaker--at least for a few of us frozen into the Arctic Ocean aboard the Canadiar Coast Guard ship Des Groseilliers. We are here as an ancillary part of SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean), the largest project that the United States National Science Foundation has funded in the Arctic to date. Associated with this primary driving force is JOIS (Joint Ocean Ice Study), an integrated science project working on the biology of the Arctic Ocean.The SHEBA head office is in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. Meteorologists and climatologists came together several years ago to initiate a project that would provide better ...

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