Julie Brigham-Grette, 2017 PEP Fellow, was cited in an article on upwelling fresh water around glacier systems

An article explains a phenomenon documented by Julie Brigham-Grette in which upwelling fresh water around glacier systems near Svalbard, Norway attracted flocks of birds to feed on small ocean creatures immobilized by the upwelling plumes from a rapid change in water salinity. Read more here

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