Footprints on a Frozen Sea Dallas Murphy May 26, 2014 Dispatches 3 Comments Here, a couple of dozen miles from the Alaskan coast in but 35 meters of water, the ice field is rumpled, ridged, and caked with dirt due to...
Components of Life Dallas Murphy May 25, 2014 Dispatches 3 Comments Monday, 19 May, a breathtakingly beautiful morning, a cloudless, cobalt blue sky, endless visibility across leadless ice, riven here and there with...
Pursuing Ice Dallas Murphy May 23, 2014 Dispatches As I wrote in the Introduction, the objective of our expedition is to witness the entire life cycle of the phytoplankton and to understand why and...
The Portal Dallas Murphy May 20, 2014 Dispatches 1 Comment At 0900 on this our second morning at sea, we’re abeam of St Lawrence Island, making 14.5 knots (one knot equals 1.15 statute miles), and...
Toward the Chukchi Sea Dallas Murphy May 17, 2014 Dispatches 1 Comment “Passing left at two-four-zero degrees,” called the helmsman as twin tugs, one pushing, the other pulling, spun Healy in her own length away from...
Our expedition into the ice Dallas Murphy May 13, 2014 Dispatches 1 Comment Something startling is happening up north of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea. In 2011 a team of scientists aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy...
