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	AJUS, December 1997: Ice-floe processes
		The ice sheet was composed of randomly oriented, nearly spherical crystals whose average diameter was 1.1 millimeter (mm).
		Once the ice sheet was stiff enough to handle, individual floes with a width of 20 cm and a length spanning the width of the tank were cut.
		Frazil that formed in the open-water area between the floes and the beach was seen to be pushed under the floes, adhering to the floes' bottoms.
	www.nsf.gov /od/opp/antarct/ajus/nsf9850/nsf9850h/ch4.htm (1507 words)

	Sea ice -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Sea ice may be contrasted with (A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier) icebergs, which are chunks of (Click link for more info and facts about ice shelves) ice shelves or (A slowly moving mass of ice) glaciers that calve into the ocean.
		In calm water, the first sea ice to form on the surface is a skim of separate crystals which initially are in the form of tiny discs, floating flat on the surface and of diameter less than 2-3 mm.
		On first year ice, which has a smooth upper surface at the end of winter (except where ridged), the pools are initially very shallow, forming in minor depressions in the ice surface, or simply being retained within surviving snow pack as a layer of slush.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/sea_ice.htm (1807 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ice floe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		An ice floe is a floating chunk of sea ice, that is less than eight kilometers (five miles) in its greatest dimension.
		Pack ice is formed from seawater in the Earth's polar regions, and expands during winter.
		Especially when covered with snow, sea ice has a high albedo —; about 0.8 — and thus the ice also affects the absorption of sunlight at the surface.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ice-floe (814 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Did Eskimos put their elderly on ice floes to die?
		In any case, the common perception of taking Granny out to the nearest ice floe and setting her adrift is wrong.
		The popular legend that the Eskimos put their old people on ice floes and set them adrift is wrong in detail, but it's not terribly far off in the broad strokes.
		At the edge, a piece of ice breaks free under her weight and she floats along on this small ice floe briefly before drowning herself.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/meskimoicefloe.html (1051 words)

	AP Wire \| 03/04/2004 \| Russia Scientists to Leave Arctic Ice Floe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		A section of the floe disappeared beneath the surface, taking four of the station's six buildings with it, she said.
		The station crew had planned to leave the ice floe - which was about a half-mile long before it began breaking up - toward the end of the month, Yershova said.
		She said a search is under way for a suitable ice floe for a new expedition, North Pole-33, which is to begin in April.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/03/05/cache/95685.html (204 words)

	Arctic theme page - About the North Pole Environment
		Jumbled ice on horizon is the pressure ridge at the edge of the floe.
		These ice particles, also known as "diamond dust", are present in the Arctic even during clear skies, but are uncommon in the less pristine air at lower latitudes except during arctic-air outbreaks.
		There may still be a bit of possible sunlight left in the season, and the melting from that sunlight, or sublimination by dry winds, may serve to remove the snow from the camera lens, but with the onset of winter, the camera will eventually remain snow covered.
	www.arctic.noaa.gov /gallery_np_tour.html (841 words)

	Ice Floe Identification in Satellite Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		"Identification of ice flows and their outlines in satellite images is important for understanding physical processes in the polar regions, for transportation in ice-covered seas, and for the design of offshore structures intended to survive in the presence of ice.
		Floe outlines are modeled as closed principal curves, a flexible class of smooth nonparametric curves.
		The edge pixels from the EP algorithm are grouped into floe outlines using the new clustering algorithm.
	www.iro.umontreal.ca /~kegl/research/pcurves/applications/iceflowidentification.html (208 words)

	Russians rescue researchers adrift on Arctic ice floe
		MOSCOW (AP) - Twelve Russian researchers were plucked from an Arctic ice floe yesterday, three days after a chunk of the floe disappeared beneath the sea and took most of their meteorological station with it.
		A large piece of the floe broke off Wednesday, and four of the North Pole-32 research station’s six buildings were lost.
		The rescue effort involved two helicopters - an Mi-8 that found the researchers, landed on the ice floe and transmitted its coordinates, and a heavy-load Mi-26 that loaded up the researchers and their equipment.
	www.showmenews.com /2004/Mar/20040307News020.asp (196 words)

	Everything you ever wanted to know about sea ice, but were afraid to ask. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Sea ice floats because it is less dense in the solid phase than it is in the liquid phase.
		Although sea ice is made from salty sea water, the salt molecules are rejected back into the liquid as ice forms.
		The oceanic processes of greatest significance in the Polar seas are those related to the presence of ice and include its thickness, compactness and type, its motion, the presence and energetics of ice-margin phenomena such as bands and eddies, and the penetration of oceanic swell into the ice pack.
	southport.jpl.nasa.gov /polar/iceinfo.html (560 words)

	floe- Sepola Search 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Floe, who served the Institute for 34 years as a professor in the Department of Metallurgy and for ten years as MIT's vice president for research, died May 18 of a heart attack at his residence in Boston.
		a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller...
		A governing factor in the exchange of energy between the atmosphere, sea ice cover, and ocean is the thickness distribution of the ice cover.
	www.sepola.com /floe.html (1198 words)

	London Free Press: News Section - Four men pulled from drifting ice floe
		By this time, Boucher said, the ice floe was several metres from land and moving steadily away.
		By the time a rescue operation was launched, the ice floe was about a kilometre offshore and heading toward the Gulf of St. Lawrence, said RCMP Cpl. Carl Hach.
		Boucher said he thinks the ice broke away because of tidal action although there were no big tides at the time.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/01/05/304365.html (519 words)

	RTE News - Russian warplanes bomb Siberian ice floe
		Russian warplanes have bombed a 50-mile wide ice floe in an attempt to unblock a build-up of meltwater, which has forced thousands of people from flooded homes in eastern Siberia.
		The massive ice melt was caused by unusually high spring temperatures, which follow one of Siberia's worst winters on record.
		It seems as if there is little hope of improvement; heavy rain is due to send a new wave of water and ice drifts downstream to the troubled areas over the coming days.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0517/siberia.html (287 words)

	Advanced Ultralight Aircraft - Challenger - National Ultralight Canada - Ice Floe Rescue! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Stephen saw that the piece of ice was approximately 120 feet square and that it was drifting towards the Quebec shore.
		It dawned on Stephen that the ice floe presented itself as a 120-foot runway with patches of wind-blown snow on its surface.
		The ice was breaking apart and beginning to turn clockwise away from the relative wind.
	www.challenger.ca /experience_tomascik.html (2494 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Vt. / Ice floe strands Quebec couple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Theodures Raaymakers, 62, and his wife, Annette Raaymakers, 60, of St. Sebastian, Quebec, were ice fishing Monday morning near the town of Rouses Point, N.Y., when the ice they were on broke free from shore.
		The ice floe that the Raaymakers were on was large -- about 2,000 feet by 1,000 feet -- but it was thinning and cracking as 20-mph winds pushed the ice northward, said Champlain, N.Y., Fire Chief Bruce Barcomb.
		Henry said the remaining lake ice is unsafe.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2004/03/30/ice_floe_strands_quebec_couple (327 words)

	The Observer \| Travel \| Dance with the wolves then go with the ice floe
		The shock of the cold was over in the seconds it took to crouch down to my neck among the ice floes and hop out again.
		The action will be outside in the ice bars, temporary structures built, you guessed it, from ice, where the vodka is served in the rocks, not on them, in glasses chiselled from frozen H2O.
		There's ice fishing, skating, snow bathing, propelling yourself down hills on various apparatuses, dogsled races, and - the biggest show in town - a canoe race across the semi-frozen St Lawrence river, whose treacherous current and metre-thick ice floes make the Oxford-Cambridge boat race look like a paddle in warm bath water.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /travel/story/0,6903,1355992,00.html (1344 words)

	CNN.com - Dramatic rescue of North Pole 12 - Mar 6, 2004
		The North Pole-32 station's 12 researchers were unharmed after three days huddled in the remains of their base, cast 700 km (450 miles) from the nearest land on a drifting ice floe, Russian state television reported.
		The windswept outpost was almost completely destroyed when a 10-metre (30-foot) high ice wall reared up from the surrounding ice floe and collapsed on the base on Wednesday.
		She was referring to an epic 1930s mission that rescued more than 100 people stranded on the ice after their ship sank in the Arctic, and which was learnt by every Soviet schoolchild and fully exploited as propaganda by communist leader Josef Stalin.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/06/russia.arctic/index.html (591 words)

	USATODAY.com - Iceberg blocks supplies to penguins, science stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer, which begins later this month.
		New Zealand research scientist Peter Wilson said the ice blockage "is a very serious event for these colonies." Penguins breed for the first time at three years of age.
		The alternatives are to break an 80-mile channel through the pack ice to reach Winter Quarters Bay on the McMurdo Sound coast — or offload the fuel and other supplies on the ice edge, pumping fuel through temporary lines several miles to storage tanks, he said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/2004-12-14-oh-no-floe-woe_x.htm (827 words)

	Rulings on Ice Floe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		But the controller of Ice Floe thought that the iceberg casts off before combat damage is dealt, effectively preventing the damage the creature would do.
		As long as Ice Floe remains tapped, that creature does not untap during its controller's untap phase.
		Ice Floe doesn't stop an attacker from doing its damage, it just keeps it perpetually tapped.
	www.starcitygames.com /pages/judgefinder.php?keywords=Ice+Floe (607 words)

	CTV.ca \| Russian research team rescued from ice floe
		A dozen Russian researchers were plucked from an Arctic ice floe and flown to safety by helicopter on Saturday.
		The rescue came three days after a large section of the floe the research team was stationed on disappeared underwater, taking four of the station's six buildings with it.
		Officials said the researchers still had enough space to survive after part of the floe submerged, but rescue preparations were begun immediately.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1078582791595_66/?hub=TopStories (251 words)

	Ice Floe Cartoons
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		Ice Floe cartoon 1 - catalog reference jdo0002
		Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/i/ice_floe.asp (105 words)

	Arctic Bay - Living on the Edge - Snorkel with Beluga off the ice floe edge \| Arctic \| Arctic Bay
		We will be on the ice before the breakup starts accelerating, which means we will not need to move camp as frequently as later in the season.
		Initial journey to floe edge..Bright sunny day and the whales are everywhere.We have a late lunch on the floe edge and stay through 11PM.
		The wind has blown lots of pack ice in and the area is full of large contained ‘pools’ of water.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/12515.html (1105 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Scientists rescued from ice floe
		Part of the floating ice shelf sank on Wednesday, destroying most of Russia's North Pole-32 research station.
		The ice beneath it cracked, then rose up in a terrifying wall 10m (30ft) tall, which crushed the base and swallowed supplies and equipment.
		The station started work in April 2003 and has travelled about 3,000 kilometres on the ice floe in the last 11 months.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3538937.stm (415 words)

	Vladivostok News :: 107 anglers stranded on ice floe
		A rescue helicopter continued on Thursday picking up fishermen from an ice floe that broke away from the shoreline ice pack off the Russian Far Eastern Sakhalin Island and drifted toward the open sea carrying away 107 anglers, emergency situations officials said.
		Oleg Morozov, a spokesman for the Sakhalin emergency situations headquarters, said nine ice fishermen were remaining on the ice floe after rescuers saved 24 fishermen on Thursday morning and 74 on Wednesday, the day the floe tore loose.
		The warning said that the ice had become thin and was prone to breaking off.
	vn.vladnews.ru /Arch/2002/ISS298/News/upd28_1.HTM (169 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The team were plucked to safety by two helicopters on Saturday, after parts of their research base sank into the Greenland Sea.
		The research base, known as North Pole 32, was set up almost a year ago on floating Arctic ice for scientists studying marine biology, ecology, oceanography and climate change.
		The station had drifted over 2,500 kilometres since it was set up, but began to disintegrate when the ice on which it stood floated too far south.
	www.nature.com /news/2004/040308/pf/040308-1_pf.html (260 words)

	ipedia.com: Arctic Ocean Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Ice covers most of the ocean surface year-round, causing subfreezing temperatures much of the time.
		Ice islands occasionally break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western Greenland and extreme northeastern Canada; permafrost on islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ships subject to superstructure icing from October to May
		NOAA Near-realtime North Pole Weather Data Data from instruments deployed on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.
	www.ipedia.com /arctic_ocean.html (804 words)

	Cloudveil Ice Floe Glove - Unisex
		I still prefer my BD Ice gloves for when it is really cold (like the Pinnacle on Mt. Washington on 0F day this spring), but when the temperature is slightly warmer, these gloves perform extremely well.
		I used these gloves to climb gr 4/4+ ice in Ontario and NH and was super pleased with how they performed on steep terrain.
		The gloves are fairly dexterous (placing screws and clipping the rope is a bit easier in these gloves than with my BD Ice gloves) and the padding on the knuckles is enough to help protect your hand, but not so much as to get in the way...
	thenorthface.utahlifeoutdoors.com /cloudveilicefloeglove-unisex.html (433 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - 12 scientists trapped on crumbling ice floe
		A section of the floe, 400 miles from the North Pole, disappeared beneath the surface, taking four of the station's six buildings with it, she said.
		Before the floe broke up, it had drifted about 1,710 miles, with the researchers recording weather conditions and studying climate change.
		The station crew had planned to leave the ice floe -- which was about a half-mile long before it began breaking up -- toward the end of the month, Yershova said.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/03/05/cache/95848.html (310 words)

	Ice Fjord on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Moved by the ice mountains The unstable nature of Norway's fjords and towering glaciers captivates John Gimlette.
		A pinnacle of ice on the South Sawyer Glacier in the Tracy Arm fjord south of Juneau.
		The small ice bits in the water of the Tracy Arm fjord south of Juneau are called brash.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-I1ceF1jord.asp (714 words)

	Education World ® Early Childhood: Castaldo's Corner: Ice Floe Game
		Here's a chance for students to pretend they are floating through the Arctic Ocean on an ice floe with their friends.
		The object of the game is for one team to advance across the playing area on the ice floe before the other team.
		When they have all stepped onto the second ice floe, they should reach behind them and pick up the first newspaper.
	www.education-world.com /a_earlychildhood/castaldo/castaldo011.shtml (604 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Rescue helicopter rescues Russian researchers stranded on Arctic ice floe
		MOSCOW – A dozen Russian scientists stranded for four days on an Arctic ice floe climbed aboard a rescue helicopter and headed for land Saturday, Russian news agencies reported.
		A dozen Russian researchers who had been stranded on an Arctic ice floe were picked up by helicopter and brought to solid land on Saturday.
		A large section of the floe disappeared underwater Wednesday, taking four of the research station's buildings with it.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040306-0722-russia-arcticice.html (167 words)

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