Known as the Beaufort Gyre, this swirling current above Alaska and Canada’s western Arctic, accumulates freshwater and helps regulate the temperature and salinity of the region’s waters.

For their study, the researchers made projections using global climate models that accurately represent the Beaufort Gyre. The Beaufort Gyre is a massive wind-driven circular ocean current in the ...

Spurred by a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution publication, her project examines how a changing Arctic Ocean current, the Beaufort Gyre north of Alaska, coincided with migration patterns of the ...