NOAA ship Fairweather on the mission to map large swaths of the Bering Sea

By Diana Haecker and Ariana Crockett O'Harra A stunning 61 percent of Alaskan maritime waters are not sufficiently mapped by modern standards, and a much higher percentage in the vast Bering Sea and Bering Strait region is not up to date in modern charts, either. This, coupled with increasing ship traffic made possible by decreasing sea ice in the Bering Strait region, is a potential recipe for…