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Alice measures the height of the ice. Each colored section of the pole equals 10 centimeters. On the sea ice near the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent, on the Beaufort Sea.

Credit to read: Photo by Kristina Brown, Courtesy of Gerty Ward (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Gerty Ward

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PolarTREC 2008 Gerty Ward

URL: http://www.arcus.org/

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arctic

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2008

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Physical oceanography

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Canon

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Canon PowerShot SD800 IS

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