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Unusual ocean conditions persist around the circumpolar north. This week we feature reports about sea ice from the Gulf of Bothnia and from Newfoundland, and LEO Network posts from Diomede and Twin Hills Alaska. Thank you Opik Ahkinga and Diane Abraham for sharing your observations.

Mike Brubaker - Editor

	Alaska biologists research mystery of declining caribou herd Kotzebue, Alaska, United States Becky Bohrer / Associated Press / January 29, 2017 The size of a large caribou herd in Alaska's Arctic region has dropped by more 50 percent over the last three years, and researchers who have tentatively ruled out hunting and predation as significant factors for the decline are trying to determine why. Read article on Associated Press
	Winds challenging Finland’s icebreakers despite record low Baltic ice Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland Yle / February 1, 2017 Meteorologist Niko Tollman of the Finnish Meteorology Institute confirms that counting up the number of stormy days this past month made January one of the windiest first months of the year over sea areas since 1994. Read article on Yle
	People of the sea ice see cracks forming Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Eli Kintisch / Hakai Magazine / January 30, 2017 In Nain, a coastal village in Newfoundland and Labrador, the approximately 1,400 residents rely on sea ice for transportation and traditional activities. Read article on Hakai Magazine
	Ice of Change - Amid Waterfowl Sightings Diomede, Alaska, United States Opik Ahkinga / LEO Network / January 27, 2017 No sea ice; hunters say it should not be like this today. Read post on the LEO Network
	Unstable River Ice - Lack of Snow Twin Hills, Alaska, United States Diane Abraham / LEO Network / December 15, 2016 From an average freeze-up to rewarming and a lack of snow. The winter weather is now gone making the river ice unstable enough to go across to the community of Togiak for groceries household goods, bad situation. Read post on the LEO Network

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