View from the zodiak adjacent to the USCGC Healy.
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Aboard the zodiak: Lauren Brown, University of Delaware, physics.
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USCGC Healy on anchor in Scoresby Bay off Ellesmere Island.
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Friends taking pictures.
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Scoresby Bay, Canada.
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Shallow water inside the fjord.
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Lauren Brown in Mustang suit.
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Lifting clouds off Ellesmere Island.
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Fresh snow in the summer on Ellesmere Island.
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Peaceful wilderness (subject to rapid change).
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Multi-year ice inside Scoresby Bay.
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If I only knew the name of this mountain on Ellesmere Island.
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Birds and sedimaentary rock of Scoresby Bay.
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What made these birds change direction? Well, probably the zodiak loaded with scientists.
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Approaching the site for deployment of a tide gauge.
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Bottom dwellers in the shallow headwater of Scoresby Bay.
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Lauren Brown with diving gear.
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Deployment of the tide gauge off Ellesmere Island.
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Dr. Humfrey Melling and Ms. Helga Schaffrin thinking.
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Dr. Humfrey Melling during deployment of tide gauge at the head of Scoresby Bay.
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Helicopter checking on zodiak and mooring deployment operations.
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The USCGC Healy's helicopter surveying coastal Ellesmere Island.
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The zodiak as seen from a landing party.
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A happy University of Delaware physicist-in-training.
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