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Whale Break

By Cassandra Brooks · February 28, 2008 · comments 6 comments
SOUTHERN OCEAN-- After a full night of sorting krill, those of us on the night crew went out on deck in the early morning light. We had been notified that Fin whales were off the… {Read More »}


Our Last Day at Sea

By Maria Vernet · February 14, 2008 · comments No comments yet
We have come to the end of our 16th annual LTER cruise, and what a wonderful one it was. Thank you to everyone who has followed our dispatches. Below are some photo selects from over… {Read More »}


Marine Mammals

By Maria Vernet · January 24, 2008 · comments 1 comment
Each year on the cruise, we are privileged to have many encounters with marine mammals -- mammals that live and feed primarily in the ocean. Mammals originally evolved on land and a subset later adapted… {Read More »}


Entrance of the Whales

By David Ainley · January 14, 2008 · comments 4 comments
Today we made a flight by helo along the fast ice edge and into the ice channel being made by the Oden, a Swedish icebreaker. Our purpose was to find out how many whales are… {Read More »}


Whales and Penguins

By David Ainley · November 26, 2007 · comments 3 comments
I guess I might as well show you, the reader, what the view is from the other direction. This picture wasn’t taken from the RacTent, which is hiding behind a hill and snowdrift to… {Read More »}

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