Now Available: Witness Community Highlights—July 2023

The July 2023 issue of Witness Community Highlights is now available.

This issue includes two articles:

• Harmful Algal Blooms in the Alaskan Arctic—a WCH Science Short Video:In this new Witness Community Highlights video feature Evie Fachon, Anderson Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, talks about her work researching Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Arctic and their impact on the health of the ecosystem and local communities.

• A 50,000-Year History of the Bering Land Bridge Revealed Through the Marine Nitrogen Cycle and Sea Level Modeling: An interdisciplinary team of Earth scientists has dated the formation of the Bering Land Bridge to 36,000 years ago, within 10,000 years of the last ice age peak. This new date greatly shortens the window of time during which Asia and North America were connected, with implications for understanding ice sheet and sea-level history, past terrestrial migrations, and the causes of cyclic ice ages.

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For questions, or to suggest ideas for future articles, please contact Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS (betsy@arcus.org).