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The zodiac to St. George. Right after breakfast, the team of scientists and others (us teacher kine) were directed to the helo area (where the helicopter is stored) to put on our survival suits. The MS 900. Emily Davenport and I were very happy to ride in a zodiac! Since I was going to have my

Yesterday we got a special treat- a few of us were lucky enough to get off Healy for a day and visit St. George Island, one of the Pribilof Islands. We went to visit the St. George School to interact with the students and give a presentation. A few students, teachers and community members were then

Today has been quite intense with getting our second IPY Live event done and getting ready for our visits to the Pribilofs Island. We will be going to St. George on Friday and St. Paul Island on Saturday. It has been a constant flurry of planning and organizing between the Coast Guards and the

So there I was just working on my journal entry when a phone call came through into the science conference room. Dr. Michael Cameron, Ice Seal Team leader, was on the line. "We are going to try and tag a seal on the ice,” he said, ”meet us in the helo hanger.” I dropped the phone and exited the

I posted some zooplankton a little while back, and I thought I’d post some more, just because they are so neat to look at!! All of these were pulled up in the net tows that the zooplankton group does- they have jars and jars of fantastic looking zooplankton. Here are just a couple examples:

When it gets really quiet on the ship a small ping or chirp can be heard. I was on a mission to figure out where that sound was coming from. I could think of no better person from the science party than Alex De Robertis. Alex is a Research Fishery Biologist working for the Alaska Fisheries Science

Today started out like any ordinary day, I woke up and went to breakfast. Going to breakfast does of course involve going down two sets of stairs and down to the mess hall. I decided on some cereal and some hot chocolate. I noticed there wasn’t many people eating breakfast not like a usual morning

Hi all- phew, it was a long weekend and I had to recover from it before writing another journal entry. We had a very busy sampling weekend- three coring stations in a row!! You may be asking yourself- why is that a lot? I’d like to give you an in depth look at the life of a mud core here on the

Before I started this adventure onboard the Healy, we were told about the opportunity to run a deep-sea pressure experiment with our students. All that was needed was a Styrofoam object decorated with Sharpie pens. I got some Styrofoam balls and bowls, a package of Sharpies and the students went to