From: Haley Smith Kingsland, Stanford University
We have phenomenal photographic talent within the ICESCAPE science party. Here are some images scientists have snapped while we’ve been at sea over the past three weeks.
Before crossing the Arctic Circle, we enjoyed spectacular sunsets and sunrises on our passage north. During this dawn, Jim Swift also saw a rainbow. (Photo by Jim Swift)
A windless warm spell brought deck temperatures to the 60s. (Photo by Kuba Tatarkiewicz)
The Van Veen Grab sometimes catches bottom dwellers like sea stars, urchins, and sand dollars. (Photo of Luke Trusel by Christie Wood)
Approaching the ice edge. (Photo by Luke Trusel)
Gorgeous weather continued as we conducted our Kotzebue Bay transect. (Photo by Jim Swift)
The Arctic Survey Boat is deployed off the starboard side. (Photo by Kuba Tatarkiewicz)
While planning an ice station, the sea ice team and U.S. Coast Guard crew members survey the ice from the bridge, where the captain navigates the Healy’s course. (Photo by Jim Swift)
Photo by Luke Trusel
We spent a few days backing and ramming in thick sea ice. (Photo by Luke Trusel)
Stan Hooker of NASA raises an optical surface reference up the mast. (Photo by Brian Seegers)
Rick Reynolds of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography watches his optical package descend into the ocean from the fantail. (Photo by Kuba Tatarkiewicz)
The Healy parked in an ice floe for “Ice Liberty.” (Photo by Jim Swift)
After a few days of ice stations and “Ice Liberty,” we returned for more stations in the open ocean. (Photo by Jim Swift)
The CTD rosette is a standard oceanographic instrument. (Photo by Melissa Miller)
Walrus sightings are always a treat! We must have passed hundreds on this particular evening. (Photo by Haley Smith Kingsland)
Some people might think of the Artic as a bleak and dark world, but these wonderful pictures that your team snapped really bring out the beauty in it. Great Work!
terrific pics good luck with your work and safe travels. cheers M & K
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Those were AMAZING pictures! I would one day like to go to Alaska, I want to see how our Walrusis, and Polar Bears are doing, due to Climate change, I’m VERY worried about them, and their home. We have to make OUR Planet a BETTER home as well, I would do ANYTHING to make Earth a better place to live, and I’m doing my part. I know what to do, and NOT to do, too bad some of us just don’t care 🙁 I know in my heart, mind, body, and SOUL, I care… 🙂
Tammy Whatman
Really appreciate reading all about your research. Your photos help me feel like I am following a grand adventure with you. More power to all of you scientists. We need your data to help understand our world and the climate effects stemming from all aspects of the earth, sea, and sky.
Thank you for the research and continue to have a wonderfully exciting time of your lives!
nice post and blog
These pictures are absolutely amazing and beautiful. Thank you for sharing, and allowing us to be a part of the journey through photography. The collaboration of scenery,camera and photographers all come together. Be safe and take care
Sincerely
Coast Guard Family
I like birds how fly, the tranquility of this place without-with echo.
But the importance is the color of the sky the reflection on to the sea…
The human group, the atmosphere…
My intuition is the placebo of ice, like a software or so…
The community of LiFe where the beginning is Art, not an icy prison, but a common place now.
The hieratism is now flexibility though we recently we are not we.. neither…
A therapy !!!!
Thank you all for sharing your phenomenal photographic talent.
The pictures are amazingly beautiful and greatly appreciated.
It helps family and friends to stay connected.
Take care be safe
Sincerely
Coast Guard Family