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Backing and Ramming

Ben Harden
May 26, 2014
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Progress through ice is never all that smooth. When breaking ice continuously, the Healy forces its colossal mass up onto the floe with a maximal...
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A Feast under the Ice

Amanda Kowalski
May 23, 2014
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Breaking through the ice, the Healy churns up a lot of chunks, most of which have a brown film on their underside. This is under-ice algae, a thin...
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Gateway to the Arctic

Ben Harden
May 23, 2014
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The Arctic Spring Expedition is passing through the Bering Strait. This 80km wide strait between Russia and the US is the Pacific gateway to the...
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Travel to the Healy

Amanda Kowalski
May 16, 2014
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Astrid Pacini is a undergraduate student at Yale University. The Arctic Spring Expedition aboard the Healy will be her first time to sea, but before...
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Exploring Life Below the Sea Ice

Ben Harden
May 6, 2014
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In 2011, a group of scientists discovered massive blooms of plankton in a place where no one expected to find them: under the sea ice. People had...
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Latest Dispatches

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    Closing the Circle

    Dallas Murphy
    July 1, 2014
    We crossed the Arctic Circle, 66° 33’ North, southbound on Friday afternoon, June 20, an exquisite, cloudless day. ...
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    The Last Ice Station

    Dallas Murphy
    June 24, 2014
    THE LAST ICE STATION As of yesterday morning, Healy had passed the 5,000-mile mark.  On 19 June, she’ll point her...
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    Drifting

    Dallas Murphy
    June 19, 2014
    Dean Stockwell was helping Joannie Ferland identify individual species from photographs of phytoplankton she’d shot...

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    Transiting Home

    Amanda Kowalski
    June 30, 2014
    Though leaving the Arctic Circle was bittersweet, it was stunning to see sunset over open water. It will be hard to say...
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    Sunny Day

    Amanda Kowalski
    June 24, 2014
    A rare sunny day during the Arctic...
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    CTD

    Amanda Kowalski
    June 19, 2014
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    The CTD (standing for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) is a vital tool for oceanographers. It measures the temperature...
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    Animals of the Week – 2

    Master Chief Sullivan
    June 19, 2014
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