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NSF-funded researchers track Alaska seal migration for the first time (594 words) |
 | "Seal tracking is an important and somewhat unexpected offshoot of a larger NSF project to establish an onshore environmental observatory on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and to encourage the participation of Alaska natives in the research effort," according to Sheffield, who oversees marine mammal sampling and data gathering for the observatory. |
| The recently tagged seal was captured initially by island residents using what Sheffield described as a "clever and effective" method in which a homemade plywood slide was deployed from a blind to block the animal's escape down its breathing hole in the ice. |
| Researchers at the University of Alaska, the University of Maryland and the University of Tennessee are the principal investigators for the observatory. |
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