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Arctic Ocean Seafloor Expedition: July 1-Aug. 10, 2007

No one has ever seen the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It's less well known to science than the surface of the moon. This month, for the first time in history, a scientific team aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden will use unique underwater and under-ice vehicles to search for life on the Gakkel Ridge, a prominent feature of the world's most isolated ocean. With funding from the National Science Foundation--as part of the agency's International Polar Year research and education program--scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution also will document their 40-day cruise in Web journals, with on-line video and photo postings and during a series of live electronic "field trips" at eight science museums around the nation.

To learn more about this unprecedented exploration of the bottom of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, visit http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu/expedition2/index.html.

Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution