Peter Winsor and Chris Murphy..

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Linder, Christopher

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Peter Winsor and Chris Murphy..

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09/11/2007

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It was Saturday in Pittsburgh, Penn., and an audience had come to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to hear about our expedition. Polar Discovery's goal is to give people who will never have a chance to visit polar regions a feeling for the importance, the excitement, and the difficulties of doing research at top and bottom of our planet. Beyond this Web site, it sponsors programs at museums nationwide, giving people an opportunity to talk directly with scientists on the job. On the bridge of the icebreaker Oden, WHOI physical oceanographer Peter Winsor (left) and Chris Murphy, an oceanographic engineering graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, are on the line answering questions about hydrothermal vents, sea ice, wildlife, underwater robotic vehicles, undersea camera systems, the effects of climate change on the Arctic, and, of course, the question that is always asked: "How's the food?" Winsor, who was born and raised in Sweden, said he feels at home on the Swedish icebreaker Oden, "eating all these dishes again that my mother used to make me." Winsor has been on several research cruises to the Arctic Ocean. For Murphy, this was his first time to the Arctic and his first research cruise. One question that wasn't asked: "What's the area code up there?"

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