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A polar bear jumps ice floes in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009. He was sighted during an expedition aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea involving scientists and biologists from the USGS, University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the University of Wyoming, Laramie. LTJG SHANNON MCELROY / U.S. COAST GUARD