The Batten School & VIMS campus will be closed on Monday, March 15 due to the National Weather Service prediction for severe weather including periods of rain, damaging winds and the potential for tornadoes.

 

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Arctic

We are analyzing data from this two-year project in the Chukchi Sea along Alaska’s North Slope, with a focuson on how water masses change as they move from the Pacific into the Arctic through the Bering Strait. Arctic waters are a hotspot of current oceanographic research in light of the area’s rapidly warming climate and disappearing sea ice.