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University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have received $2.2 million to study Arctic marine ecosystems while on board the ice-capable Sikuliaq, a $200 million research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation, operated by the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS), and homeported in Seward.

The project will help researchers better understand the processes that prime oceans for summer productivity and better anticipate changes resulting from declining ice cover.

Six SFOS researchers, along...

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