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Bow of the Healy moving through broken ice chunks.

Bow of the Healy moving through broken ice chunks.
Bow of the Healy moving through broken ice chunks.
Bow of the Healy moving through broken ice chunks.
Bow of the Healy moving through broken ice chunks.
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(57°35′36″N, 169°33′31″W)
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Linder, Christopher L.
Bow of the Healy moving through broken ice chunks.
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04/21/2009
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Last night we were going through broken ice. Yesterday's high winds probably whipped up big waves out in the open water - and swells even made it to where we were, in the ice. The Healy was going up and down and up and down in a most ship-like manner, something we had barely experienced in the previous two weeks, because the ice normally dampens the waves. Notice those lights at the front of the ship, which illuminate the ice for night driving - they're about to go away.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 54, No. 2, front cover:
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy glides through pancake ice in the Bering Sea. In 2020, WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian will return to the far north as part of a year-long study. Read more in our feature story.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 1, pg. 48:
INTO THIN ICE--Bow lights show the way as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy streaks through slim pancake ice in the nighttime Bering Sea. After long, dark winters, sunlight returns to the sea in spring, relaunching a bountiful food chain that goes from algae up to seals, walruses, whales, and polar bears. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian led a team of scientists on a research cruise in April 2009 to learn how this complex ecosystem works and how climate change might disrupt it.
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Bow lights show the way as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy streaks through slim pancake ice in the nighttime Bering Sea. After long, dark winters, sunlight returns to the sea in spring, relaunching a bountiful food chain that goes from algae up to seals, walruses, whales, and polar bears. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian led a team of scientists on a research cruise in April 2009 to learn how this complex ecosystem works and how climate change might disrupt it. In 2011, Ashjian will return to the Bering Sea to lead a six-week cruise to study the Arctic ecosystem during the frigid, dark winter.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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