After a polar bear damaged George Divoky's cabin on an island east of Utqiagvik, the biologist returned to patch up the spot that he'll use again to monitor bird populations for a 48th consecutive summer, says science writer Ned Rozell.
George Divoky and his friend Matt Thomas pose in front of Divoky’s cabin on Cooper Island after repairing polar bear damage in April 2022. He was not planning a remodel this year. Sometime during the winter, a polar bear tore through a plywood wall of the cabin Divoky moved to Cooper Island 20 years ago.
That bird is the black guillemot, a sleek ebony sea bird that spends its entire life in the Arctic. Fifty years ago, Divoky was doing a pre-trans-Alaska pipeline assessment of birds in the Beaufort Sea. The guillemots caught his eye. In the 1980s, 225 pairs of black guillemots nested on Cooper Island. Last year, Divoky counted 25 pairs.
In recent years, the ice edge has been hundreds of miles from Cooper Island during the birds’ August feeding time. He encountered 16 polar bears that summer, one of which wrecked several mountaineering tents he used as a camp. He then decided he needed a more solid shelter.
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