Ice Seal Tracking Maps Archive

From 4 to 19 August, we received locations for 5 ringed and 1 spotted seal. Two ringed seals (RS19-01-M, red arrow, and RS19-04-M, blue arrow) moved east along the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska; RS19-04-M moved into the eastern Beaufort Sea, near the outlet of the Mackenzie River, Canada. Ringed seals RS19-02-M (yellow arrow) and RS19-05-M (purple arrow) generally made localized movements near the continental shelf-break (200-m isobath) in the northern Chukchi Sea. RS19-03-M (orange arrow) stayed in the central Chukchi Sea. Spotted seal SS18-02-M (brown circle) made localized movements and hauled out near Scammon Bay in the Bering Sea. Sea ice data are courtesy of the U.S. National Ice Center, dated 19 August 2019 (http://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/daily_products.html).