The ship hunted for ice today. That’s right. The scientists wanted to get out and do at least one more ice operations before we got too far south past the ice edge. So the Captain and several others…
Saturday, May 5th- a day of celebration on the ship, for more than one reason. First, it was Cinco de Mayo! This is always a cause for celebration, and it was an especially important day because…
Saturday May 5, started off ordinary, as ordinary as a Saturday on an icebreaker in the middle of the Bering Sea can be. I was lingering over lunch with Gavin Brady and Dr. Michael Cameron, two…
Monday April 30, 2007
The ice is here so ice observations take place every two hours. I had a feeling today was going to be a wildlife bonanza and it was. We saw lots of ribbon and spotted seals and…
Cinco de Mayo!!! That meant for all of the science party that we were responsible for the Saturday night dinner for the entire ship. Naturally, we chose a menu with Mexican flair.
Never before had…
I have watched a lot of science happen these past three weeks. I have asked a lot of questions and taken a lot of pictures. See I needed to understand what was happening here in the middle of the…
Do you like playing with fire? What about watching things burn? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions then you are automatically on burn duty. That’s pretty much how the first two…
Today was our third LIVE from IPY event while on the Healy. All of us were a little nervous because we had asked Captain Lindstrom to join us and talk a little about the Coast Guards. We also had…
I stuffed the cups with some sturdy brown paper towels to keep them separate and then placed them in a mesh laundry bag.
Claire's Cup (Before)
Here is Claire’s cup before we sent it down.
The…
Check the reefer!! That’s the first thing you hear when you ask any scientist down in the lab, "Where’s Bonnie?” The reefer is what the Coast guards refer to as the refrigerated room down in the…
Around midnight, at the start of 5/2/07, we lowered the multicorer down to the deepest station we’ve had this entire cruise- 3,500 meters. That’s over 10,000 feet deep!! The multicorer takes about…
We did an experiment a few weeks back. Our students decorated Styrofoam balls, bowls and cups. We asked them to predict what they thought would happen to the object if we sent it down to the bottom…
