Polar research blooms inside the hot spots

New Englanders know the summer is painfully brief, so by the time July rolls around, they make sure to head to the water - surfing in Rhode Island, boating in New Hampshire, or kayaking down the Connecticut River. But Portland, Maine, native Ella Christie '27 traveled farther afield - namely, the Northern Bering Strait and the Southern Chukchi Sea - to join Geography Professor Karen Frey aboard the Sir Wilfrid Laurier, a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker. Frey's Polar Science Research Laboratory team collected water samples to better understand how climate change is impacting fragile marine ecosystems.

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