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    "parsed_content": "Journey to AntarcticaliveTrack the TripSealsLife on a GlacierPortraits of ThwaitesWhy We\u2019re GoingAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTAntarctica\u2019s Best Ocean Explorers Have Whiskers and Love to LoungeThe environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could never reach.Listen to this article \u00b7 6:03 min Learn moreShare full articleVideoHyunjae Chung, a behavioral ecologist, with a Weddell seal he and Ji-Yeon Cheon, another behavioral ecologist, prepared to tranquilize and tag with an electronic sensor.CreditCredit...Bok Jin Kim, Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesBy Raymond ZhongReporting from the icebreaker Araon in the Amundsen SeaFeb. 10, 2026Leer en espa\u00f1olTo recruit the Antarctic expedition\u2019s newest deputy scientist, Ji-Yeon Cheon had to approach the candidate carefully, from behind.Step by gentle step, Ms. Cheon walked sideways across a patch of sea ice, avoiding eye contact. Once she was close, she held a five-foot blowpipe to her lips and shot a dart filled with sedative into the animal\u2019s blubbery, speckled-gray rump.Ms. Cheon and a fellow behavioral ecologist, Hyunjae Chung, have spent the past few weeks tagging Weddell seals on patches of frozen sea around Antarctica\u2019s Thwaites Glacier. As the seals dive, swim and feed over the coming months, pocket-size devices glued to their heads will log their movements and the properties of the water around them, and transmit the information by satellite when they surface.Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung, both doctoral candidates at Seoul National University, are hoping to better understand how the warming ocean is affecting the animals\u2019 diving and foraging behavior. The same warm water that is eroding Thwaites from below also brings up iron and other nutrients from the seafloor, helping nourish fish and other creatures that seals like to eat. Similar changes might also be underway in the ecosystems beneath melting icebergs around the glacier.\u201cIn the Amundsen Sea, especially near the Thwaites Glacier, there is fast environmental change,\u201d Ms. Cheon said. Weddell seals are not considered a threatened species right now, but scientists still have more to learn about how the animals are responding to new conditions today and in the future, she said.Antarctica\u2019s seals have no natural predators on the ice, so they are not typically inclined to fear incursions by blowpipe-wielding ecologists. Still, tagging is risky work for scientist and seal alike.ImageA lounging seal near the Thwaites Glacier last month.Credit...Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesVideoMs. Cheon prepared the tranquilizer dart.CreditCredit...Min Kyo Kim, Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesFirst, as Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung approach by helicopter, their pilot uses the chopper\u2019s noise and movement to nudge the target seal toward the center of an ice floe so it can\u2019t make a quick escape into the sea. Once they\u2019ve landed on the ice, Mr. Chung sways back and forth to distract the animal while Ms. Cheon creeps toward it from the other direction.In goes a needle six centimeters long, or 2.4 inches, either shot through a blowpipe or, if the seal is calm, injected by hand through a syringe. The seal whips its tail. Its jaws fly open. It does a little roll. Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung turn and walk away briskly.From a safe distance, they watch as the sedative does its work over the next 10 minutes or more. Once the animal has stilled, they whisk a cloth bag over its head to block its field of view and help it fall asleep. The bag is tapered for a snug fit but open at both ends so the animal can breathe. Then the scientists super-glue a tag onto the seal\u2019s snoring head.The tags themselves don\u2019t seem to bother the animals. Each one has roughly the weight and dimensions of a stack of three smartphones, 600 grams or 1.3 pounds, with an antenna poking out. The tags will stay on the seals\u2019 furry heads until they molt again next summer.But the tagging process tugs on some complicated heartstrings, Ms. Cheon said. Sometimes, when she is injecting a seal with sedative, it looks up at her with big wet puppy eyes, and she wants to apologize, she said.She and Mr. Chung agreed: This is not the kind of work they can talk about easily with their friends back home.ImageThe researchers kept a close eye on the seal as a sedative did its work.Credit...Bok Jin Kim, Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesVideoMr. Chung removed the newly-tagged seal\u2019s cloth bag covering and took measurements with Ms. Cheon.CreditCredit...Bok Jin Kim, Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesThe data the seals collect isn\u2019t of interest only to ecologists. It is the best source of information about ocean physics around Antarctica in winter, when thick blankets of sea ice render the continent inaccessible by ship.Weddell seals can dive down to about 1,000 meters, or two-thirds of a mile, allowing them to gather measurements at depths that scientists would have to spend lots of time lowering and raising instruments to take themselves.Over the past decade, seals have sent back \u201cabsolutely mind-boggling\u201d amounts of information about the waters around Thwaites, said Lars Boehme, a specialist in animal-borne technology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.In his lifetime, data from seals has gone from being a \u201claughingstock\u201d in oceanography to such a common source that scientists don\u2019t even specifically mention in their academic papers when they use it, Dr. Boehme said. \u201cI love that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s good data, necessary data, that really helps you to understand the ocean and the climate.\u201dLike other agencies, the Korea Polar Research Institute, which is operating this expedition, has rules for tagging to keep both humans and animals safe. Scientists don\u2019t tag pups, nursing females or any individuals that look, by a rough eyeball estimate, too big for the bag. Once the sedative is injected, researchers must stay and monitor the seal\u2019s recovery for at least 40 minutes. If a seal slides into the water before it\u2019s fully awake, it could drown.VideoA seal on the ice in the Southern Ocean en route to the Thwaites Glacier last month.CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesImageThe tags themselves don\u2019t seem to bother the animals, but Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung agreed the tagging process tugs on some complicated heartstrings.Credit...Bok Jin Kim, Chang W. Lee\/The New York TimesEven with such precautions, tagging doesn\u2019t always go as planned. At times, the seals have been too aggressive or the sedative too weak, forcing Ms. Cheon and Mr. Chung to retreat. On an excursion last month, a seal bit their field guide, Seokju Woo, in the arm. The bag was over the animal\u2019s head, so Mr. Woo walked away with a bruise, some scratches and a torn jacket sleeve.In response, the Korean institute revised its protocols to say that only experienced scientists can be involved in bagging and tagging, and that they should do so only once the animals are sufficiently tranquilized.It would also help for the scientists to have protective Kevlar sleeves, Ms. Cheon said. And a rigid handle for the bag so they could slip it over a seal\u2019s head from farther away, like a dogcatcher\u2019s net.Despite the risk, the stress and the feeling of intruding upon an animal\u2019s domain, the tagging experience is like nothing else, said Yixi Zheng, a postdoctoral researcher in oceanography at the British Antarctic Survey.So rarely when working outdoors in Antarctica do scientists ever touch anything warm or soft, and seals are both of those things in spades, she said. Being close to them activates a sense of mammalian kinship that is otherwise absent in the icy wastes.\u201cThey have fingers, they have hands,\u201d Dr. Zheng said. \u201cSo when you touch them, it\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, we are similar.\u2019\u201dRaymond Zhong reports on climate and environmental issues for The Times.Read 46 commentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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