Once everyone was on board and our equipment was all set up, the ship got underway on Saturday. It didn't take long before we saw our first chunks of sea ice floating by the ship.

Already we have seen more sea ice this year than on our entire 2002 Arctic cruise. We were much farther west, out in the Chukchi Sea, in 2002 and this year we will be heading east up into the Canadian Arctic.
Submitted by jchill on Mon, 2013-08-19 07:41
For the next 3-weeks, I will be a board the Icebreaker USCGC Healy in the Arctic Ocean. I am taking part in a research cruise with scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and several other schools. It's great to be back -- I was fortunate to spend a total of 6 weeks on the Healy back in 2002. At that time, we spent 3 weeks in the Bering Sea to the south, and 3 weeks in the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska, where I conducted a large part of my PhD thesis research.
Submitted by jchill on Mon, 2013-08-19 05:54
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