Svalbard
ARK project
The ARK project was founded to study the Arctic marine mammals in Kongsfjorden in a context of climate change. One of the main focus for the 2021 campaign was to equip with dive-recording GPS individuals from the three species of resident seals in the area: ringed, bearded seals (Arctic residents) and the harbour seal (a more temperate species) to understand the spatial use and potential overlap as the habitat for the Arctic species is shrinking fast.
Handling a juvenile bearded seal whose weight could only be estimated by girth measure. Image: Kit M. Kovacs.
