Adaptations to Life in Sea Ice with Dr. Jeff Bowman

In this specific lesson, Dr. Jeff Bowman touches on differences between the adaptive strategies of warm vs. cold-bodied organisms. You'll learn about homeostasis and thermal equilibrium as they relate to the harsh Arctic environment.

This video is part of a collection called “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic,” offered through the online course platform Coursera, about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean, where it will drift for 13 months (mosaic-expedition.org).

March 17, 2020

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Science Content Video 

Audience

Educators

K-12 Students

College Students

Lifelong Learners

Program Reference

Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)

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About the Presenter

Jeff Bowman is participating in the project entitled, Collaborative Research: Quantifying microbial controls on the annual cycle of methane and oxygen within the ultraoligotrophic Central Arctic during MOSAiC, where my group will be participating in the collection and analysis of microbial population structure data, methane production and oxidation data, bacterial abundance, and net community production.

Additional Resources

Visit this page to access the “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” Coursera.

In this course, you’ll hear directly from more than three dozen MOSAiC scientists and Arctic experts as they summarize the core of their research, what types of data they collect during MOSAiC on the ice, under the sea, and in the air and describe why this expedition is so key for increasing our understanding of the Arctic and global climate systems.