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A rave party on the USCGC Healy, complete with glow sticks.

A rave party on the USCGC Healy, complete with glow sticks.
A rave party on the USCGC Healy, complete with glow sticks.
A rave party on the USCGC Healy, complete with glow sticks.
A rave party on the USCGC Healy, complete with glow sticks.
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Ashjian, Carin Jessica
A rave party on the USCGC Healy, complete with glow sticks.
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02/02/2012
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, vol. 49, no. 2, back cover:
On research cruises, work goes on 24/7. But there is occasional play to keep up the morale of scientists and crew. Such breaks are especially important on cruises to polar regions in winter, where bad weather, frigid temperatures, and nearly perpetual darkness can make moods foul, icy, and gloomy. So on a 43-day cruise to the Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas in the winter of 2011, the crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy staged a rave party inside the ship's helicopter hangar, complete with fog machines, throbbing music, fluorescent lights, twirling glow sticks, and a charcoal grill for an indoor cookout. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian was chief scientist of the multi-institutional expedition to learn more about how the complex Arctic Ocean ecosystem works and how it may be affected by climate change. See Page 11.
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Work went on round-the-clock in the winter of 2011 during a 43-day cruise to the Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas. Bad weather, frigid temperatures, and nearly perpetual darkness can make moods foul, so to keep up morale, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy staged a rave party in the ship's helicopter hangar, complete with fog machines, throbbing music, twirling glow sticks, and an indoor cookout. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian was chief scientist of the multi-institutional expedition to learn more about how the complex Arctic Ocean ecosystem works and how it may be affected by climate change.
Photo by Carin Ashjian
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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