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Panning for Polychaetes A portion of my time at each station is devoted to sieving mud from the box corer. We are at 2100+ meters depth, so it takes over two hours to send the box corer to the bottom and then retrieve it; less time is required at shallower depths. Box coring is usually planned for

A Whiskery Visitor Shortly before lunch today we were visited by a juvenile walrus. The young walrus, determined by very small teeth, short whiskers, and smaller body size, playfully swam around the fantail of the boat; at one point even making grunty walrus sounds. There were plenty of

An Arctic Snow Day A snow day, but no change to the day's schedule! Until today I had never experienced snow on July 29th. When you are above the Arctic Circle, the weather can and will change rapidly. Sometimes it is brilliantly sunny one moment and then incredibly foggy a few minutes later

Honoring Coast Guard Service Today brought excitement outside of the realm of science. Amidst light snow flurries, we all gathered on the flight deck of Healy for a group photo of the science team and Healy crew. This is our twenty-first day above the Arctic Circle (66.33 N latitude), and several

Classification Naming, identification, and classification of organisms often poses problems. Classification schemes may not always represent true organismal relationships, and because of limited samples or difficulty in collecting samples, duplicate names for the same organism sometimes occur