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	Beaufort Sea Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Beaufort Sea is a large body of water north of The Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west of Canada's arctic islands that is a part of the Arctic Ocean.
		The Beaufort Sea is also the location of what are believed to be significant petroleum reserves beneath the seabed, a continuation of proven reserves in the nearby Mackenzie River and North Slope.
		The Beaufort Sea was first explored in the 1960s and the Amauligak Project of 1986 began operating the first functioning oil platform.
	search.localcolorart.com /search/encyclopedia/Beaufort_Sea (399 words)

	AllRefer.com - Beaufort Sea (Arctic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Beaufort Sea[bO´furt] Pronunciation Key, part of the Arctic Ocean, N of Alaska and Canada, between Point Barrow, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
		The Mackenzie River flows into the sea, which is always covered with pack ice.
		It was first explored by the Canadian Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1914.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BeaufrtSea.html (168 words)

	The Weather Legacy of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort
		Francis Beaufort was born in 1774, in County Meath, Ireland, the son of the Reverend Daniel Augustus Beaufort, the Rector of Navan.
		Beaufort's assignment during the years 1811 and 1812 led him to the Eastern Mediterranean off Asia Minor for a combined hydrographic study and patrol mission against the pirates operating out of the Levant.
		In 1829, Beaufort was appointed Hydrographer to the Admiralty.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/history/beaufort.htm (1260 words)

	Beaufort Sea Flyway Seaduck Projects at the Alaska Science Center
		Coastal Beaufort Sea is exposed to increasing disturbance and habitat change as a result of expanding oil and gas development.
		In the fall and spring, western arctic populations of common eiders and long-tailed ducks migrate along the coast of the Beaufort Sea to and from breeding areas in Canada and Alaska (Johnston and Herter 1989).
		Identification of spring staging areas, key foraging areas and habitats used in summer, and fall staging areas throughout the Beaufort Sea is poorly described for common eiders and long-tailed ducks.
	www.absc.usgs.gov /research/seaducks/sat_telem_seaducks.htm (1015 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Ice Types in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska
		Determining the amount and type of sea ice in the polar oceans is crucial to improving our knowledge and understanding of polar weather and long term climate fluctuations.
		Sea ice in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska was classified and mapped in these concurrent images acquired March 19, 2001 and mapped to the same geographic area.
		In general, sea ice types that exhibit increased radar backscatter appear bright in SAR and are identified as rougher, older ice types.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10892 (584 words)

	Beaufort Sea -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		city, seat of Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated on Port Royal, one of the Sea Islands, and on the Intracoastal Waterway.
		The sea is navigable between July and October both eastward and westward from the shallow...
		Northwest Territories, Canada, created in 1970s by territorial government; extends from Wrigley to Mackenzie River delta in Beaufort Sea of Arctic Ocean; Inuvik town is regional headquarters; fur trapping, whaling, petroleum, natural gas; town was planned as model community; is base for trappers, walrus hunters, and sealers, as well as for Eskimo...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9356838 (956 words)

	Circulation in the Beaufort Sea
		We are presently investigating the circulation over the continental slope and adjacent abyssal plain of the Beaufort Sea using moored time series of temperature, salinity, and current velocity.
		The boundary current along the Beaufort slope shows frequent reversals, at least in part associated with long wave propagation, but the mean flow is clearly cyclonic, even though the flow of ice and near-surface water is westward.
		Seaward of the Beaufort Sea slope and below the mixed layer, the most energetic part of the velocity field resides in eddies with a typical horizontal length scale of 10-20 km.
	psc.apl.washington.edu /HLD/Beaufort/Beaufort.html (416 words)

	Satellite remote sensing to map the dynamics of the Canadian Beaufort Sea coastline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This case study shows the primary results of a project in which satellite images were used to map the dynamics of the Canadian Beaufort Sea coastline from 1973 to 1999.
		According to literature this coastline is highly sensitive to erosion and hence to sea level rises resulting from climate warming.
		Yet, the dominant coastline dynamics of the Canadian Beaufort Sea could be mapped successfully.
	www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca /ccrs/rd/apps/marine/beaufort/beaufort_e.html (520 words)

	Methane in coastal sea water, sea ice, and bottom sediments, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
		The objective of this project has been to test the hypothesis that gas hydrate deposits of the Beaufort Sea continental shelf are destabilized by the ~10°C temperature increase that has resulted from the Holocene transgression of the Arctic Ocean.
		Thus the Beaufort Sea shelf of Alaska is a seasonal source of methane.
		The methane content of sea ice was measured at 51 stations in 1993 and 1994.
	geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov /metadata/open-file/95-70/metadata.faq.html (3202 words)

	Beaufort Sea on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		History of the federal fisheries laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina.
		Abundance and distribution of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) in central and northern California during 1998 and summer 1999.
		Decline in sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations along the Alaska Peninsula, 1986-2001.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BeaufrtS1ea.asp (372 words)

	ABSTRACT: Holocene paleoceanography of the Mackenzie Trough area, Canadian Beaufort Sea: Preliminary results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A series of 3 piston cores were collected from the Mackenzie Trough (Canadian Beaufort Sea) in 2002 onboard the Japanese research vessel RV Mirai.
		The objective was to reconstruct the evolution of sea surface conditions in the area during the Holocene.
		Dinoflagellate cysts were used as proxy indicators of sea surface conditions (temperature, salinity, sea ice cover), foraminifera were used as indicators of water mass conditions, and thecamoebians were used as indicators of freshwater inputs from the Mackenzie River.
	cgrg.geog.uvic.ca /abstracts/RochonHoloceneA.html (553 words)

	WWF Canada - The Beaufort Sea
		Canada’s Beaufort Sea offers a magnificent vista of marine habitat largely untarnished by modern industrial development, but North America’s demand for increased domestic fossil fuel supply is creating pressure to drill for oil and gas (see The Nature Audit, Part III, pp.
		Using new scientific techniques such as satellite-based radio tracking of marine wildlife, researchers are now discovering offshore feeding areas, migratory corridors and glimpsing the vast ranges of ringed seals, beluga, king eider and the endangered bowhead whale.
		WWF-Canada's Beaufort Sea conservation work is generously supported by The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation.
	www.wwfcanada.org /AboutWWF/WhatWeDo/Initiatives/Initiatives.asp?project%3Dbeaufort (447 words)

	Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea Natural Gas - Purvin & Gertz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea frontier region is potentially a major new source of supply for the ever-increasing North American natural gas market.
		Other reasons motivating the interest in Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea gas include the potential for huge finds, new pipeline infrastructure pushing northward, technological innovations reducing costs, a clearer land claim situation, and renewed interest by governments and aboriginal peoples for economic development in the region.
		It is assumed that oil development in the Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea region is delayed significantly compared to natural gas development.
	www.purvingertz.com /oilwk110199.html (1420 words)

	Anadromous Fish of the Central Alaska Beaufort Sea
		Inventories of fish habitats, populations, and fisheries in the Alaska Beaufort Sea began in earnest during the mid-1970's.
		Biologists believe that Arctic cisco inhabiting the central Alaskan Beaufort Sea originate in the Mackenzie River, Canada.
		The center of distribution for least cisco in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea is the Colville River.
	biology.usgs.gov /s%2Bt/noframe/s059.htm (1429 words)

	Arctic Science Journeys Radio: Bowheads Feeding Less in Beaufort Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's here—along the edge of the sea ice—that the whales prey on massive schools of zooplankton.
		He noticed that the level of the isotope, Carbon 13, from prey consumed in the western Arctic's Chukchi Sea was different from the level found in the Eastern Beaufort Sea.
		Lee discovered that the Eastern Beaufort Sea above Alaska and Canada is an important feeding area for bowhead whales, especially subadult whales.
	www.uaf.edu /seagrant/NewsMedia/00ASJ/09.14.00_Bowheads.html (855 words)

	Interannual variability in summer Beaufort Sea ice conditions: Relationship to winter and summer surface and ...
		Utilizing an ice severity index based on the distance from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the ice edge and characteristics of the shipping season, variations in summer ice conditions are examined from 1953 through 2000 with respect to variations in winter and summer surface and meteorological conditions.
		During light ice summers the Beaufort High is strongly defined over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, enhancing easterly and northerly winds and advecting sea ice out of the Beaufort Sea.
		Variations in sea level pressure and winds that result in light and heavy ice summers are closely linked to positive and negative winter Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation phases, as well as negative and positive summer Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation phases.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002JC001537.shtml (403 words)

	Beaufort NC Tours - Outer Banks of North Carolina
		Beaufort, NC A town unharmed by progress, retaining the charm of its early days with 18th century homes of pirates the likes of Blackbeard, sea captains, shippers and merchants still standing, gleaming white, on the
		Beaufort is well known for its' many fine restaurants.
		Beaufort NC is located in the Southern Outer Banks of NC.
	www.tourbeaufort.com (679 words)

	Gullah Dialect and Sea Island Culture (Beaufort County, SC): PArt I: The Gullah Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Traditions, language and myth stayed longer with the coastal Carolina Gullahs, who were allowed a greater latitude of self-sufficiency and were relatively isolated on the Sea Islands.
		Most Beaufort slaves in the first decades of the 1800s may have been first-generation African arrivals.
		So it was not merely the remoteness of the Sea Islands that preserved the African culture and language influences among Gullah speakers.
	www.co.beaufort.sc.us /bftlib/gullah.htm (1109 words)

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		One of the first scales to estimate wind speeds and the effects was created by Britain's Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857).
		The Beaufort scale is still used today to estimate wind strengths.
		The sea is completely covered with long white patches of foam lying along the direction of the wind.
	www.zetnet.co.uk /sigs/weather/Met_Codes/beaufort.htm (627 words)

	Beaufort Sea Seals - Research and Monitoring
		We do not know the exact size of the ringed seal population in the southeastern Beaufort Sea but it may be more than half a million.
		We believe the seal population is stable, and the species is currently classified as 'not at risk' in Canada.
		However, the seals are tied very closely to the state of the ecosystem and are dependent on the sea ice for reproduction.
	www.beaufortseals.com (456 words)

	Beaufort Sea LME
		The Beaufort Sea Large Marine Ecosystem is characterized by its Sub-Arctic climate.
		The Beaufort Sea LME is bordered by Alaska (USA), by the Yukon Territory, the Inuvik Region, and part of the Northwest Territories (Canada).
		A Beaufort Sea Beluga Management Plan was developed in 1993 by the Fisheries Joint Management Committee.
	na.nefsc.noaa.gov /lme/text/lme55.htm (937 words)

	The Beaufort Scale for use at sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sea heaped up, white foam from breaking waves blowing in streaks with the wind.
		Sea completely covered with long white patches of foam.
		Air filled with foam and spray, sea white with driving spray, visibility.
	www.weirwood.co.uk /beaufort_scale_Sea_.htm (95 words)

	National Marine Mammal Lab Quarterly Report Oct-Dec 2000 for Alaska Fisheries Science Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The agency determined in the opinion that the proposed action is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the western population of the Steller sea lion and is also likely to adversely modify the designated critical habitat for this population.
		In the Biological Opinion, NMFS identified several factors that could also be contributing to the decline of the population of western Steller sea lions, such as the effects of a shift in a large scale weather regime (i.e., the Pacific Decadal Oscillation) and predation by killer whales.
		Two workshops addressing different components of the impacts of the oil and gas industry on marine mammals in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea were held in November 2000.
	www.afsc.noaa.gov /Quarterly/ond2000/divrptsNMML.htm (1772 words)

	Forbes.com: Devon Energy leads return to Canada's Beaufort Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		TORONTO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The oil industry is poised to return to Canada's frigid Beaufort Sea seeking natural gas, 13 years after the last well was drilled in the Arctic region, as plans for a C$4-billion ($3-billion) pipeline move ahead.
		Devon is the largest exploratory land holder in the Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea area with 1.8 million acres (728,500 hectares), a storehouse of prospects it acquired when it bought Calgary-based Anderson Exploration in 2001.
		Canada's National Energy Board has estimated the Beaufort Sea to contain more than 50 trillion cubic feet of gas, a prize so far untapped because there is no way to move it to market.
	www.forbes.com /markets/newswire/2003/09/18/rtr1085548.html (672 words)

	Reprocessing of Multichannel Seismic-Reflection Data Collected in the Beaufort Sea-USGS OFR00-460
		Contained on this set of two CD-ROMs are stacked and migrated multi-channel seismic-reflection data for 65 lines recorded in the Beaufort Sea by the United States Geological Survey in 1977.
		These data were collected in the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea regions from August through October of 1977 aboard the USGS research vessel Samuel P. Lee.
		Grantz, Arthur, May, S.D., Mann, D.M., 1982, Tracklines of multichannel seismic-reflection data collected in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in 1977 for which demultiplexed field tapes are available from the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF82-0651, 1 over-size sheet, scale 1:500,000.
	greenwood.cr.usgs.gov /energy/OF00-460 (1776 words)

	Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta 2002 Call for Bids - Terms and Conditions - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta 2002 Call for Bids - Terms and Conditions - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
		Draft Terms and Conditions of the 2002 Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta Call for Bids
		Any submission of a bid in response to this call for bids shall be made on the understanding that the terms and conditions as contained herein are accepted and agreed to by the bidder.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /oil/act/Cal/Beau2002/nom/term_e.html (1762 words)

	Beaufort Sea drift waste and fuel drums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One less-recognized effect of development is accumulation of drift waste along the Beaufort Coast.
		Helicopter and beach plot surveys in 1985-86 and 1989-90 showed that the major type of drift waste was styrofoam of many shapes and sizes.
		Most of this was related to oil drilling in the Beaufort Sea - which is now inactive - and to Mackenzie River and coastal navigation.
	www.taiga.net /issues/dev4.html (153 words)

	MMS Press Release -Oil and Gas Interest Continues in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea
		MMS has held eight Federal sales in the Beaufort Sea planning area since 1979 and issued 690 leases of which 37 remain active.
		Lessees have drilled 30 exploratory wells in the federal portion of the Beaufort Sea, all but one well in the sale area.
		MMS is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation's oil, natural gas and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf in federal offshore waters.
	www.mms.gov /ooc/press/2003/press0924.htm (547 words)

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