Plankton Patterns Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite I have been working on shrinking and simplifying some of my plankton drawings and turning them into geometric patterns that could be...
Ice Floe – Video Jody Sperling July 6, 2014 Dance, Multimedia Credits Choreography & Performance: Jody Sperling Video Editing: Ben Harden & Amanda Kowalski Camera: Tripod, Frank Bahr & Pierre...
Closing the Circle Dallas Murphy July 1, 2014 Dispatches We crossed the Arctic Circle, 66° 33’ North, southbound on Friday afternoon, June 20, an exquisite, cloudless day. The snowy, black-rock...
Melosira Chelsea Clarke June 18, 2014 Art Acrylic ink, colored pencil, and graphite Melosira is an ice algae diatom that lives in the sea ice and forms long chains that hang down into...
Ice Rescue Ben Harden June 14, 2014 Multimedia 2 Comments Working on the sea ice comes with a unique set of risks: the cold, deep drifting snow, a steep gangway from the Healy, and even the threat of a...
Waiting for the Melt Ben Harden June 10, 2014 Multimedia First they thought we were too late, now the worry is spreading amongst the science party that we are too early. For the scientists aboard the Healy,...
Ice Station Practice Jody Sperling May 30, 2014 Dance 1 Comment So far, I’ve gotten to dance during four ice stations. An “ice station” is when the Healy nestles up against an ice floe, drops anchor and the...
Ice Day Amanda Kowalski May 30, 2014 Photography 1 Comment Science on Ice: Some people are drilling holes in the ice to learn what's going on beneath it, others taking ice core samples to learn what's in...
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...