Images
are from Ute Kaden, TREC Teacher on the Healy
Cruise.
Click
here to go to her online journal.
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here to view the image gallery on the TREC website. |
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| Fresh food got delivered
to the Healy |
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The ice crew is unloading
their equipment |
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| Healy at the dock
in TROMSO, Norway |
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Map |
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| Norway Coastline 2 |
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Norway Coastline |
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| Keidi Niemann, Erin
Biemiller and Aimee Buford are at the Bidge to handle
the ships navigation toward Norway. |
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The stratigraphy of
yellow and brown sediment bands is clearly visible
on the split multicore material |
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| Dennis cleans the
JPC core just recovered from the Ocean |
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Waves are rolling
in |
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| The ice is gone |
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Quarters are held
daily to acknowledge special accomplishments |
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| Map 2 |
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All underway maps
by Steve Roberts |
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| Healy splashes through
the waves.The container with cores is on the right
side. |
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Focsle is the front
deck of the ship. |
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| Computers are secured |
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Coffeee maker is secured |
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| Dr. Coakley
infront of a seismic cross-section of the arctic
ocean with Hanna Eagle from Brownsville, TX |
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| My "Leaving
the ice observation" from 7:30 am to 11:00
am 9-27-05 |
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| Multi beam seismic
image of out last coring site to determine the depth |
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Hans Berge is preparing
the seismic gear for the last deployment |
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| Dennis Darby and Emma
Sellen cutting our last JPC core |
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I try to help out
and I video taped the coring operation for educational
use |
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| Dale is getting the
last JPC core ready- an icy job |
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Ute |
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| Ice Conditions |
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Radar Map |
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| Map 9-27 |
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Healy search lights
on the ice and the Oden leaving us |
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| The beauty of a frozen
corebarrel ! |
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MST's and Dale rigging
the JPC core at sub 0C temperatures-hard work |
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| Casino night and one
of the Black Jack Tables |
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Sunrise accompanied
by a beautiful display of sun dogs left and right
of the sun |
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| Arctic fog rolls in
in a matter of minutes |
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The freeze up has
started . Paper thin flexible sheets of ice form
around us |
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| Jimmy Jones Olemaun
our mammal observer from Barrow looks for polarbears
from the bridge |
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The engineering control
center provides control, monioring, alarm und reporting
functions of the auxiliary and propulsion equipment
through the MPCMS ( Machinery Plant Control and
Monitoring System) |
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| Healy Shadow |
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Ice Map |
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| Map from September
7 |
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CTD |
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| The two Captains did
a great Job |
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Farewell party for
the Swedish scientists |
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| Oden parked next to
an iceberg- night in the Arctic |
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Photo by Martin Jacobsson |
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| Photo Ursus by Alejandro |
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Polar bear feeding
on seal |
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| more pankace ice |
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iceberg |
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| sun set and pancake
ice |
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Our ship track from
Dutch Harbor, AK to Svalbard |
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| Pancake ice |
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I am on the bridge
studying the pancake ice |
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| small iceberg |
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slush pancake ice |
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| Map |
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cycloconverter diagram |
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| The shaft that turns
the propeller |
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The ECC team ready
to fix the ship if neccesary |
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| CWO2, Jeffrey Parker,
who is responsible for the Auxiliary and Main Propulsion
divisions aboard HEALY |
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This is an example
of the control screen in the ECC |
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| John Hopper and scientists
are working on the cruise data and reports |
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Gary and Dayton are
studying seismic data |
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| Propeller shaft driven
by the electromotor |
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Electro Motor |
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| Electromotor for the
propeller shaft |
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Transformer station |
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| 6600 V cables going
to the transformer |
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Diesel motor turns
the shaft of the generator |
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| DCC Philip Smelser
is monitoring the ships systems from the engineering
control center (ECC) |
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One of the four diesel
engines |
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| Leads and pressure
ridges from the air (photo by Jeremy) |
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We get sun rise and
sun sets now . This one is a sun rise. |
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| Healy broke a big
crack in the ice |
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Healy is breaking
ice |
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| Oden in front of Healy |
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Oden is following
our channel |
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| Beauty with moon |
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Pressure ridge |
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| Thick ice all around
us |
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Close Call! |
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| Oden & Healy are
very, very close |
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Map 09-21-05 |
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| LCDR Reeves driving
the ship and monitoring , speed, heading and rpm
of the motor shafts |
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LCDR John Reeves and
Captain Dan Oliver at the ships controls driving |
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| Ice |
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Kazu drills ice cores |
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| Don and Bruce measure
ice albedo |
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Healy shadow on the
ice and Oden in the background |
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| Beauty of Ice |
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Bingo Night 2 |
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| Bingo Night |
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ODEN and HEALY breaking
ice as a team |
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| Pirate
day at the HEALY |
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| IBACO map by Martin
Jacobsson helps to locate the Ridbes and Basins |
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The watch glass shows
the interior of the flash chamber where you can
see the water boiling and vaporizing. |
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| MKCS Bisson checks
the temperature gauge for the operational 168 degrees
Fahrenheit. |
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Main sea water pump |
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| The sea water is transported
through a 24 in sea suction pipe |
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MKCS Bisson explains
the sea water suction system |
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| Oden breaks ice |
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Sven the Helicopter
Pilot |
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| Coffee break on the
Oden |
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The Emlen Funnel is
used to determine the direction the bird would like
to fly. |
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| Susanne Akesson explains
her magnetic navigation bird project. |
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Northern Wheatear
is a long distance traveler |
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| Glenn, Dale, and Keidi
on the ODEN |
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Cozy Oden room |
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| Ludger explains his
CO2 carboncycle project |
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Toste explains his
science project |
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| Ulf and Dale infont
of the ODEN'S bridge |
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Keidi, Glenn, Dale,
Ulf on tour of the Oden |
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| Hello Air Taxi- Inside
the Swedish Helicopter |
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Dale, Glenn, Sven
(Pilot), Ute gettiing ready to fly |
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| Captain Dan Oliver |
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5 h later snow storm
and low visibility. I took the photo of the Healy
from the icebreaker Oden, 9-17-05 |
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| sun dogs visible in
the morning, 9-17-05 |
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Polar Bear mom and
her two cubs |
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| The Healy clearly
slid on top of heavy ice during the ramming. |
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EM1 B. Jolping works
on the Cycloconverter |
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| MKCS J. Bisson showed
me the cycloconverter area
Cycloconverters control the speed of the propulsion
motors through
varying the frequency (0 Hz-20Hz ) provided to
the motors. The ship has
two and the left one in the photo caused problems. |
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EMC F. Donze changes
electronic parts |
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| Backing
- Backing icebreaking sequence of the Healy |
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| Things freeze on deck
instantly |
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SN Peter Boggeln says
"Hi" to my students |
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| Captain Dan Oliver
at the Bridge |
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BMCS Sullivan (Navigator)
and LT Eller (Helo pilot) discussing the Tromso
map |
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Temperatures dropped
to the lower -15 C. Antennas and the loft
conn are covered with ice |
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Pressure ridges form
when ice floes are pushed against each other
by wind or sea currents. We saw some thick ones
up to 18 m. |
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| New ice forms |
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Erik has floor cleaning
duty. Great job- Thank you! |
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| Sun dogs 2 |
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Sun dogs are a spectacular
display . The sky seems to be on fire. |
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| Fredrick does laundry. |
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Erik on the treadmill
is a Karate champion and has a hard training program
EMCM Curtis is working out on the bicycle. |
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The work out at Healy
is serious business. People seem to give the
best at all times. |
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Thore is showing off
his strength. |
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| There are plenty of
washing machines and dryers available. |
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Oden in front of Healy
breaking ice by rocking from the left to the right |
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| through heavy ice
with average speed of 2 knots |
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Map 9-17-05 |
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| Sea ice with pressure
ridges up to 18m thick. |
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Oden in front of Healy
breaking ice. |
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| Dr. Leonid Polyak
during his Science Talk |
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Loft conn is the highest
point of the ship for navigation.
The two women are driving the ship. |
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| The two women are
driving the ship. |
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Loft conn is the highest
point of the ship for navigation. |
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| Flags
to show our appriciation to the country |
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| Mr. Lobster says Hi
to Tara Marx and my students at Hanna HS, Brownsville,
TX |
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The UH Cougar and
Hanna HS eagle at the North Pole |
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| Walter Reynoso-Peralta
is celebrating a dance from his home country Argentina |
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Vernier Lab Pro with
Photo gate at the North Pole for data collection
which will be used in physics at Hanna HS, Brownsville,
TX |
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| Hedda and I are collecting
acceleration data at the North Pole with Vernier
Physics Equipment |
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Plush animals and
Vernier Equipment at the North Pole |
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| The Seismic Team Yngve
Kristofferen, John Hopper and Erik Grindheim in
a discussion about seismic acticity at the North
Pole?! |
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Nina Ivanova , Leonid
Polyak and Thomas Greenfel celebrating at the North
Pole |
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| John Hopper on his
way to the Oden |
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MSTC Don Snider from
Harlingen, TX and Jimmy our mammal observer from
Barrow Alaska Celebrating the North Pole |
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| Santa lives at the
North Pole |
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Healy and Oden at
the North Pole |
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| Healy Crew with the
Captain in the middle is getting ready for a group
photo at the North Pole |
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Ice Liberty at the
North Pole |
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| Action at the Healy
Bridge-Navigator Tim is looking for the North Pole |
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The Pole at Last! |
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| Martin Jacobsson and
Leonid Polyak are discussing seismic data from the
Lomonosov Ridge. |
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Map of our multibeam
swath over the "Gap" in the Lomonosov
Ridge |
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| Gap in the Lomonsov
ridge 2 surveyed with Multibeam Bathymetry |
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Gap in the Lomonosov
Ride 1 |
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| Martin Jakobsson Map
about our survey area |
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Oden disappears in
the fog |
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| It is cold and the
antennas freeze |
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People watch from
the Helo deck Oden is departing |
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| Crane transfer of
people in a basket |
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Oden is just meters
from the Healy |
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| Amanda, a sudent at
Texas A & M, Galveston doing research on the
Oden and Ute Kaden, BISD Brownsville, TX (student
at University Houston) meet at USCGC Healy |
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Oden is coming closer |
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| sea ice next to the
Healy |
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Jeremy Harbeck takes
field notes |
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| Map - backing and
ramming |
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Dr. Greenfel with
the K-19 meassuring thermal radiation |
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| Healy Backing and
Ramming - Healy slides on the thick ice and needs
to back and ram to go forward |
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Weather changes fast
from sun to snow |
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| Satellite Image of
the low pressure system |
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Track 9-6 to 9-7,
Going nowhere |
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| Map 09-07-05 |
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Local time and Texas
Time. Still 24 hours daylight! |
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| Buoy from above |
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Buoy |
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| Ruben in helicopter |
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Ruben and helicopter |
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| Reading material found
on desks of the scientists |
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A coffee break at
Oden today; to the left Jessica Noel and Mattias
Peterson (Oden Chief Officer) and to the left Anders
Karlqvist (expedition leader) and Tomas Årnell
(Oden Captain) |
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| Physics teacher Mr.
Hoffmann coordinates the webevent at Hanna HS in
Brownsville, TX |
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Physics students at
Hanna HS, Brownsville, TX during the live webinar
from the USCGC Healy on September 1, 2005. |
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Physics students
at Hanna HS, Brownsville, TX during the live webinar
from the USCGC Healy on September 1, 2005. |
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Map 09-06-05 |
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| Dennis
Darby is the Chief of the science spectators |
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| Lots of cardboard
has to go to the front of the ship - our wogs do
it |
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Cinnamon wog is cleaning
the dry food room |
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| Cleaning with the
fire hose so the ship does not get dirty!
photo by Bjorn Eriksson |
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That is it- old ,
smelly food
photo by Bjorn Eriksson |
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| Captain Dan Oliver
(left) had lots of fun watching |
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Even CDR Jackson had
to paricipate. He did it with a smile. |
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| Everybody had to go
in the cold sea water pool
photo by Bjorn Eriksson |
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He won the Mrs. Healy
show
photo by Bjorn Eriksson |
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| Huuu, cold sea water
and one has to dive under
photo by Bjorn Eriksson |
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Marching in position
on the Helo deck for Sport activities |
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| Back from Sport on
the Helo deck - wet and cold |
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Walter, Asa and Beth
are "Blue noses" |
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| Non Talent show and
two girls in on Mustang suit are dancing |
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Non-Talent show participants
Dayton, Ute, Walter (Jazz dancer) and Beth (photo
by Bjorn Eriksson) |
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| Ruben, the Swedish
teacher and Karina from Norway as wogs |
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Ice is closing behind
the Healy |
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| Pressure ridges make
us backing an ramming the ice |
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Oden drives next to
the Healy |
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| Map 09-04-05 |
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Sunday activities
9-4-05 at Healy |
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| Oden 2 |
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Oden 1 |
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| Dr. Coakley is answering
questions during the 9/1/05 webinar from the Healy
with New Zealand |
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Live conference from
the Healy. Captain Dan Oliver is answering questions |
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| Oden breaks ice in
front of Healy |
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Fresh snow lets one
think of Christmas |
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| Healy is following
a big lead (ice free channel ) |
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Beth our mammal observer
on the frozen Healy upper deck |
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| Sextant |
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sea cucumber 2 |
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| sea cucumber |
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Fredrik Ludvigsen |
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| Karina
Monsen |
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| Paula,
Emma, Raidar and Ute cutting the core |
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| Leonid at 14.5 m of
sediments |
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Dennis awaiting the
JPC (Jumbo Piston Core) |
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| Dave and Steve retrieving
satellite maps in the computer room at the bridge |
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Ice conditions of
the day. The basket for the ice people is visible |
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| Paul is playing his
horn. |
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Glenn is reading the
book "Sea legs" while waiting for his
Multi Core. |
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| Dale and John are
relaxing to music |
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Karina from Norway
is working on her physics homework. |
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| All good things come
to an end. Up and on the ship it goes... Bye, bye...
What a fun day on the Arctic Ocean! |
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Alejandro (center)
from Venuzuela had his first close contact with
snow and ice |
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| The special force
unit takes care of the problem - On thin ice! |
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Ohhh no, this egg
shaped thing is in the melt pond, again! Help! |
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| An excellent soccer
game needs a good referee. “All decisions
are final”, no doubt about this. He is available
for the World Cup in Germany 2006 if needed. (Not
to worry- It is our bear watch!) |
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Soccer game in front
of the ship. great fun. |
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| Gary, Beth and John
talking about navigation, mammals, computers...? |
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Dennis Darby going
for an eagle at melt pond 18 |
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| Small talk with Captain
Dan Oliver |
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Beth, David, Will
and Asa enjoying the Arctic Ocean white snow beach |
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