We are on our way into Dutch Harbor. The winds have been blowing consistently out of the north for the duration of our trip. This creates the polynya (area of open water and thin ice) in the leeward…
Wow! Lobsters in the Bering Sea! Who would have known that we would come across a relative to the Maine Lobster on the Healy! And Angus cattle! Actually, it is Easter Sunday, so the Coast Guard…
We were within sight of St Matthew Island yesterday. Tony Fishbach, USGS biologist with the Alaska Science Center, wanted one more shot at tagging a walrus in the polynya south of St Matthew. He had…
Bingo! Researcher Jim Lovvorn of the University of Wyoming saw two Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fisheri) flying low to the Northeast. I was with Dr. Lovvorn in a Bell Ranger helicopter flying on a…
Dr. Sue Moore, NOAA/ Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, is conducting research with acoustic sonobouys, hydrophones, and qualitative observations of marine mammal…
Today was another incredible day aboard the USCGC Healy. The Bering Sea Ecosystem Study team of scientists and the US Coast Guard held a ‘Live from IPY!' webinar this morning. It was fantastic…
The Healy was near sampling station, DLN3, when the opportunity presented itself to the sample the snow and ice on the ice pack. DLN3 is approximately 3 miles from the International Dateline. It was…
Listen to a short audio file of the ship breaking through the pack ice. We were in an area south of St Lawrence Island. I recorded the audio on the 02 deck near the bow. The ice was several meters…
These pictures are for Ms. Manning's class! I took these pictures of the sunrise and nighttime we were traveling between sampling stations. The images are of the bow of ship. They are updated every…
Bearded seal habitat is a year-round with moving ice. They avoid shore ice and thick unbroken ice. Today we went through prime habitat for the bearded seal. Moving between stations, we encountered a…
Finally saw my first male walrus on Saturday! Off to the portside of the ship, we saw him just prior to reaching our first sampling station. We have been in the ice for the past couple of days. First…
The Healy encountered rough conditions once we left Dutch Harbor. The wind speed exceeded 35 knots, the wave swells reached 10 feet, the temperatures were in the low teens, visability was…