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  • Ice Road on McMurdo Sound back to McMurdo Station
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  • Flight to New Harbor over a windswept McMurdo Sound
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  • Wind blown snow on McMurdo Sound
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  • B-134 Fish Hut on McMurdo Sound
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  • Tabular Iceberg
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  • Looking side on at the Hut Point Peninsula from McMurdo Sound. That large rock sticking up is the back side of Castle Rock.
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  • Zen Weddell seal
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  • Approaching Explorers Cove where Taylor Valley meets McMurdo Sound.
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  • Diver in McMurdo Sound from the OB Tube.
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  • Looking east from Lake Fryxell camp toward the Commonwealth Glacier. New Harbor and McMurdo Sound is beyond Coral Ridge in the distance.
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  • Tabular Iceberg
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  • Royal Society Range and Bowers Piedmont Glacier
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  • 100 ft (30M) high side of Tabular Iceberg
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  • Extremely cold and windy day out on McMurdo Sound
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  • Snow mobiles on McMurdo Sound from Hut Point. Probably the biology team returning from Big Razorback Island where they have a Weddell Seal study area. #3 Fish Hut in background.
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  • New Harbor and Ferrar Glacier
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  • Divers in McMurdo Sound from the OB Tube.
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  • Lab technician Cailan Sugano working in Crary Lab testing water samples
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  • Umi hanging with the resident Weddell seal
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  • At this stage the pteropods are about the size of a grain of sand, but will grow to be about 1/4" (6mm)
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  • Kevin Johnson sorting Pteropods into containers for transport back to Crary Lab
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  • #3 "Fish Hut" that serves as shelter for collecting Pteropods
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  • Kevin Johnson in the Fish Hut checking and collecting Pteropods from the conical plankton nets. Pteropods are a key species in the food chain, and are in danger because their shell is showing signs of thinning and erosion caused by increase ocean acidification from excess carbon dioxide being absorbed by the southern ocean.
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  • Kevin piloting the Piston Bully
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  • Kevin Johnson sorting Pteropods into containers for transport back to Crary Lab
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  • Lab technician Cailan Sugano working in Crary Lab testing water samples
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  • Kevin Johnson, Juliet Wong and Umi Hoshijima in the Crary aquarium at the tank where they are exposing pteropods to water acid levels expected in the not distant future.
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  • Crary Lab aquarium and one of B-134's experiments
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  • This Weddell seal makes regular visits to the Fish Hut to breath. When she surfaces she really blows some air, enough to blow your hair back.
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  • Kevin and Umi Hoshijima in the Fish Hut checking and collecting Pteropods from the conical plankton nets
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  • The team is finding pitting and erosion of the Pteropod shells from the decrease of the ocean PH level from absorbing more carbon dioxide. This could endanger this key food web species which provides up to 80% of the food for fish, which both penguins and seals rely on as primary food sources.
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  • An extremely rare find at these latitudes, a bed of moss growing near the shore of the Sound
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  • McMurdo Sound
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  • The moat allowed us to ride snow mobiles all the way from Explorers Cove and get fairly close to the Ferrar Glacier. Erebus in the distance across McMurdo Sound.
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  • Inaccessible island and McMurdo Sound, with open water approaching as the sea ice breaks up.
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  • Ice breaking up on McMurdo Sound, from helicopter on flight back to McMurdo Station. We were watching for Orca whales, the pilot said they had been seen in the area. I swore I saw one blow, and yelled out. The pilot pulled a tight turn and we went to investigate but couldn't find any sign of it.
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  • Riding in the Piston Bully out on McMurdo Sound. B-134 (B for biology) has two current projects exploring the impacts of ocean acidification on calcification-dependent marine invertebrates (creatures with shells) while framing the experiments with oceanographic sensor data. The study organisms are the pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica and the sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri.
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  • Stores on the ramp above the hut. Royal Society Range on distant shore of McMurdo Sound.
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  • Grounded Iceberg, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. To give a sense of scale, the vertical sides of this iceberg are 100 ft (30 M) high (I know because I landed on it in a helicopter).
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  • Erebus Ice Tongue, an extension of the Erebus Glacier, extending out into McMurdo Sound, photographed on flight to Cape Royds.
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  • View across McMurdo Sound to the Trans Antarctic Mountains
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  • Riding in the Piston Bully out on to McMurdo Sound. B-134's two current projects explore the impacts of ocean acidification on calcification-dependent marine invertebrates while framing the experiments with oceanographic sensor data. Our study organisms are the pteropod, Limacina helicina antarctica and the sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri.
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  • McMurdo Sound ice breakup
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  • McMurdo Sound ice breakup
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  • Dive hut on sea ice, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
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  • Two Emperor Penguins on McMurdo Sound
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  • Grounded Iceberg, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
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  • Beacon being lowered into McMurdo Sound to guide the robot back home. The beacon is only there as a backup, the robot will normally find its way home after making its run without use of the beacon.
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  • Weddell Seal in dive hole, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
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  • Transantarctic Mountains photographed from SIMPLE camp located on the frozen sea ice of McMurdo Sound
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  • Inaccessible Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
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  • Icebergs on McMurdo Sound from Marble Point
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