Our team of scientists from the University of New Hampshire and NOAA, along with colleagues from the Navy, USGS, and other organizations, are underway in the Arctic Ocean aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker HEALY for a seafloor mapping expedition to help the United States define the limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.
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Read the USGS Ocean Acidification Research Team's Cruise Journal
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Follow HEALY's Track Map
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View hourly images from HEALY's Aloftcon
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See HEALY's position and weather
Capt. Andy Armstrong of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center is one of the chief scientists aboard the Healy. He is sending these notes from the top of the world.
September 27, 2012
Final entry for the project.
We arrived in Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island chain today. The weather was windy, and rainy with low clouds. The temperature was 41° F. Dutch Harbor is a container port and is the United States' number 1 port for fisheries landings