FOCI (Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations)
surface buoy in ice at M2 mooring in the Bering sea southeast of
the Priblof Islands. Photo From the Miller Freeman photo collection.
Tufted puffin, a bird that resides in the Bering Sea
region. Photo thanks to the US Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska
Image Library.
Research Vessel Thomas G. Thompson from the University
of Washington. This is one of the two ships participating in our
Bering Sea Ice-Edge Expedition. Photo from Univeristy of Washington
Oceanography Martech.
Microscopic photo of two copepods with egg sacs. Photos
by Matt Wilson and Jay Clarke. Archived in the NOAA Photo Library.
An ice map of the Bering Sea for 1995. This map is
average ice cover for the month. The colors designate percent areal
coverage. So the number 6 on a contour line means 6/10 (six tenths)
or 60% coverage in an area within that line and up to the next numbered
line. Plot thanks to Sigrid Salo.
A CTD (Conductivity, Temperature and Depth) package,
a vital piece of equipment for the work done in Physical Oceanography.
Data is recorded every 6 seconds in the water column as the CTD
is lowered to near-bottom then back to surface. The tall Niskin
bottles can be closed at chosen depths to grab water samples. Photo
by P.Sullivan.
A Ribbon Sea with transmitter attached.
The transmitter is attached with epoxy and the seal swims with it
sending back information via satellite. The transmitter can relay
depth, wet/dry (in water, hauled out), and temperature. When the
seal's coat is shed in the spring the transmitter is also shed.
Photo By Mike Cameron.