Warmer temperatures and melting sea ice are reshaping Arctic life. Will the food web adapt? Lamont-Doherty researchers are drilling into the sea ice off northern Alaska to study the tiny plants and animals that grow below. Microbiologist Andy Juhl with newly collected samples.
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/07/09/investigating-the-world%E2%80%99s-oceans-pole-to-pole-and-deep-below-the-bottom/
Photographer: Brittany Held