Shelf Sediments, Freshwater Runoff From Rivers Brings More Carbon, Nutrients to North Pole
![An international team of scientists aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the German research icebreaker Polarstern met at the North Pole in 2015 to survey elements in the Arctic Ocean. (Photo by Stefan Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute) Shelf Sediments, Freshwater Runoff From Rivers Brings More Carbon, Nutrients to North Pole](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2020-04-12-1.jpg)
A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their international colleagues found that freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments are bringing significant quantities of carbon and trace elements into parts of the Arctic Ocean via the Transpolar Drift—a major surface current that moves water from Siberia across the […]