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The mountains of Three Saints Bay are reflected in the water |

The Miller Freeman along a pier in Eureka CA |

A volcano in the Aleutian chain |

Survey tech and scientist bring a Bongo net back on board in windy weather. |

The crew helps clear ice off the Miller Freeman |

LF Knoepke gets ready to toss a keg at a Cinco De Mayo festival in Dutch Harbor. |

WWII bunkers on Dutch Harbor. |

The bridge crew is busy getting the ship underway. |

CAPT Herring looks on from the bridge of the Oscar Dyson as his ship rafts up to the Miller Freeman. |

Scientists relax on the bow. |

CDR Gallagher in the snow. |

A Coast Guard helicopter flies by the Miller Freeman. |

F Cooper steers the ship around ice floes. |

The ship's crew on the icy Miller Freeman bow. |

A scientist and Survey Tech Kathy Hough get ready to deploy a CTD. |

LTjg Strausz looks over navigation equipment on the bridge. |

ENS Davis enjoys the first view of the mainland we've seen since leaving for Alaska. |

ENS Davis instructs AB Lozier on helming techniques. |

CB Mackie leads the deck crew in a net deployment. |

LT Cimilluca, CS Phillips, CB Mackie and LCDR Boland finish a dive operation. |

The Ballard Bridge raises so the ship can go through the ship canal in Seattle. |

The scientists and survey tech get ready to deploy a drifter. |

The Kodiak Alaska dump is full of Eagles. |

1AE Duncan at the top of Ballyhoo Mountain. |

The view from Ballyhoo Mountain in Dutch Harbor. |

The view of Dutch Harbor from Ballyhoo Mountain. |

The Oscar Dyson steams by some dramatic mountains during joint operations with Miller Freeman. |

The Oscar Dyson travels by a volcano. |

ENS Gallant in Captain's Bay, Dutch Harbor. |

The Farallon rocks off of California. With lots of seagulls. |

Feeding the wild horses of Dutch Harbor. |

The crew gathers to help fillet by-catch for charity. |

LCDR Boland and LF Long are the two fastest filleters. |

A scientist sorts through fish on the sorting table on the back deck. |

ENS Gallant helps F Baird with a large catch of fish. |

A scientist sorts through fish on the back deck. |

CB Mackie directs launching of the FRB. |

The FRB races away from the ship to help hikers in distress along the shore. |

ENS Gallant in front of the Canadian mainland on a cloudy day. |

The sunset is framed nicely by the gantry. |

The oldest Russian Orthodox graveyard in the US. |

The wild horses are friendly. |

The Miller Freeman is all covered in ice!. |

The Miller Freeman passes a small ice flow in the Bering Sea. |

ENS Gallant stands in front of some sea ice. |

A lonely island in the Bering Sea. |

ENS King looks at the scenic coast of Canada from the bow. |

LF Knoepke tosses his keg to victory at the keg toss |

ENS King and F Kerr-Reiss on the bridge. |

A relic of WWII in Dutch Harbor. |

ENS Gallant and a scientist on the bridge of the Miller Freeman. |

LCDR Boland and our iced over crane. |

LCDR Boland at sunrise in Three Saints Bay. |

LTjg Waller hiding in the forest on Kodiak Island. |

LTjg Strausz waits to handle lines for the Miller Freeman. |

Scientists look at water samples for signs of life. |

LT Cimilluca in front of a volcano in the Aleutian chain. |

The Fairweather at dock in Kodiak. |

The deck crew gets ready to deploy a mocness from the back deck. |

The deck crew hoists a mooring instrument aboard. |

The deck crew gets ready to deploy a mooring buoy off the back deck. |

The peak of a Pyramid mountain in Captains Bay Dutch Harbor. |

The deck crew is busy inspecting the trawl net. |

ENS Davis, 1AE Duncan, and LTjg Strausz have conquered the top of Ballyhoo. |

The Oscar Dyson and Miller Freeman rafted together in Captains Bay Dutch Harbor. |

The Oscar Dyson rafts up to the Miller Freeman when there isn't enough dock space for two ships along side. |

Relaxing by the shores of a glacial lake in Dutch Harbor. |

The scientific party and F Cooper on the back deck in cold weather. |

A fur seal on a patch of ice. |

A Sea Lion at the fuel dock in Kodiak. |

LT Cimilluca waves from the water during a dive operation. |

Scientists sort our their fish haul. |

LT Cimilluca holds up a squid caught by one of our trawl nets. |

LTjg Strausz thinks Three Saints Bay is cool. |

LTjg Strausz at a scenic outlook in Kodiak Sunrise. |

A stunning sunrise in Three Saints Bay. |

Another Sunrise in Three Saints Bay. |

The Miller Freeman at dock in Eureka CA. |

A tugboat steams past two volcanoes in the Aleutian chain at sunrise. |