At Anchor
Early Tuesday morning, we left our study area to head up to Pt. Barrow. Why? Because the marine forecast for our region was calling for 35 [...]
Walruses, auklets, and brittle stars, oh my!
Walruses are part of that special group of animals that are so ugly they are cute. In more scientific terms, walrus are part of the pinniped [...]
The Night Shift
While the seabird and marine mammal observers sleep at night, other scientists are afoot. At every sample station (red dots on the map), they are on deck [...]
Life on the R/V Norseman II
When you are living and working on a boat, two things stand out—you are stuck on the boat, and that boats can move in multiple directions at [...]
Commander Island wildlife
The kids attending the Commander Island summer camp have just sent some wildlife portraits they've been working on. Horned puffins, fur seals, and a raven. Thank you, [...]
The Wheelhouse Gang
We have been transiting from Prudhoe Bay to our first sample station for the past several days (yellow star in location map above shows current location), and were [...]
Aglakh
The kids on the Commander Islands have just returned from their summer camp. We're really excited to hear about the camp activities, it sounds like it was [...]
Kick-off
What is the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) project? The AMBON project is one of three pilot projects whose goal is to help establish a national [...]
Checking nest-boxes
Seabird activities continue on St. George. Abram gave a talk about the red-legged kittiwake project, that included using Google Earth to check out the small hand-full of [...]
Foggy Start
Seabird Camp on St. George had an unplanned start. The plane carrying Ann and Peter circled the island a few times, but it was too foggy to [...]