Past Research Cruises and Expeditions
Ocean Station PAPA Cruise, May 2006
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
An aerial view from the helicopter of the polarhaven on the lake ice, Lake Bonney, Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
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Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Hughes Glacier, spilling over above Bonney Camp, Antarctica. |
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Seasonal "moat" ice designs on the margin of Lake Bonney, Antarctica |
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Dry Valleys, Antarctica
The Jamesway at Bonney Camp, Antarctica. |
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Melting the hole through 4 meters of lake ice with a "Hotsy" and generator. Taylor Glacier is in the background. |
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Dry Valleys, Antarctica
A wandering Adelie penguin that walked tens of kilometers to Lake Bonney. |
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
A view of Lake Bonney, a permanantly ice-covered lake, and the Taylor Glacier in the background.
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Dry Valleys, Antarctica
A large ventifact, or rock sculpted by high winds and blowing sand. Charles Trick stands by it for scale. |
McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
Close-up view of a stranded iceberg in McMurdo Sound. Photo taken during a transect across the sound to collect sea-ice cores.
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Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Loading the Helicopter on the ice at Lake Bonney. |
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
The Scott Tent used for drilling and sampling laboratory on Lake Vanda, Antarctica.
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Strait of Juan de Fuca, British Columbia
The R/V Atlantis, an UNOLS research vessel used for our ECOHAB work. It is the mother ship for the submersible "Alvin" that discovered the Titanic. |
ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest
Brady Olson and Lisa Pickell, Ph.D. graduate students, in the shipboard laboratory of the R/V Atlantis.
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ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest
Sunset on the R/V Atlantis. |
ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest
Deploying the Rosette Sampler, containing Niskin water sampling bottles as well as conductivity, temperature and other instrumented packages.
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ECOHAB - Pacific Northwest
Deploying the trace metal clean sampling towfish for underway sampling of waters for experiments and analysis. |
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