Geophysics professor wraps up voyage exploring Amerasia Basin’s origin

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Geophysics professor wraps up voyage exploring Amerasia Basin’s origin

A science cruise led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher to investigate the origin of the Arctic Ocean’s Amerasia Basin has come to an end, with the research vessel Sikuliaq back at Nome after more than seven weeks at sea. The voyage was the Sikuliaq’s northernmost to date. It sailed to just over 79 degrees […]

Geophysics professor sails north in search of deep-sea answer

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Geophysics professor sails north in search of deep-sea answer

[content id=”79272″] How one of the two large basins underlying the Arctic Ocean formed during the Mesozoic Era remains a mystery to scientists. It’s one that geophysics professor Bernard Coakley of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is hoping to unravel as he leads an international research project that set sail this week aboard […]