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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 science lab. Bonnie Chang is a graduate student from the University of Washington working towards her PhD

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 3 hours to make the entire trip, and we sent it down twice at this station. We were lucky enough to get

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 of the deep Bering Sea. Some thought it would expand and become huge, others thought it might be

The place to be on the ship is up in the bridge. That is the place to see all the animals. We have two different groups of scientists up there from sunrise to about nine at night. We have scientists looking for different kinds of birds and we have scientists looking for ice seals. Sometimes they see

The Healy made a stop at St. George and St. Paul Island this past week. Collectively, they are called the Pribilof Islands. The history of these two islands is very interesting. There is a deep Russian influence as well as Native Alaskan Aleut. The animal that the islands based their economy on was