Backing and Ramming Ben Harden May 26, 2014 Multimedia 1 Comment 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...
A Feast under the Ice Amanda Kowalski May 23, 2014 Multimedia 2 Comments 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...
Gateway to the Arctic Ben Harden May 23, 2014 Multimedia 2 Comments 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...
Travel to the Healy Amanda Kowalski May 16, 2014 Multimedia 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...
Exploring Life Below the Sea Ice Ben Harden May 6, 2014 Multimedia 2 Comments 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...