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 Photo: Rebecca Himschoot, Teacher at Sea This season, the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN was unable to reach a mooring due to ice. Later in the season, during the summer Pollock survey, the NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON retrieved the moorings, replaced the sensors, and returned them to the icy Bering Sea until later this year. |
 Photo: Sarah Mincks, UAF SST Hough, Scientist Brenda Holladay and ENS Witherly recover the beam trawl. |
 Photo: SST Colleen Peters, NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON SF Kellogg, Oiler Barth and Scientist Sarah Mincks inspect the catch after a beam trawl in the Chuckchi Sea. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS The crew and scientists of the BASIS cruise crossed into the Arctic Circle on September 4, 2007 and are now known as “Bluenoses”. |
 Photo: Morgan Busby, AFSC Bongo being towed off the starboard side |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS There are several temperature and depth sensors attached to the head rope before the bottom trawl is set. |
 Photo: LT(jg) David Strausz, NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN The NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON steams alongside the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN during the winter calibration in Shelikof Strait. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS Carwyn Hammond leads a study on the affects of trawls on the benthic environment utilizing a camera system towed over an area by the ship.> |
 Photo: Roy Arezzo, Teacher at Sea CTD operations are common on board the NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS Once the bag is brought on deck, it is lifted over the table and emptied. The table is then tipped up with hydraulics to send the fish into the lab utilizing the conveyor system. |
 Photo: Josh London, NMML After arduous searching, this female ribbon seal was found in the last moments of the day— it was spotted while the boats were headed (full speed no less!) back to the ship to participate in the Memorial Day barbeque. |
 Photo: Eric Husoe, AFSC Scientists Lauren Kuehne, Bruce Wing and Anatoly Volkov sort the samon and the herring after a surface trawl. |
 Photo: Rebecca Himschoot, Teacher at Sea Visiting Russian Fish Biologist, Mikhail Stepanenko helps sort fish as they come into the lab via the conveyor. |
 Photo: Rebecca Himschoot, Teacher at Sea Bill Floering of PMEL helped the MACE crew with the summer Pollock survey. The table full of fish will get separated by sex and put into the respective bins for lengthing. |
 Photo: Rebecca Himschoot, Teacher at Sea Sarah Stienessen, a scientist from the MACE group at AFSC weighs individual Pollock while collecting the otoliths. |
 Photo: Josh London, NMML From left to right: Colleen Peters (SST OSCAR DYSON), John Jansen (Biologist), Heather Ziel (Bio Tech), John Goodwin (AK Native), Dan Savetilik (AK Native), Shannon Fitzgerald (Seabird Bio), Chief Scientist Peter Boveng and Josh London (Biologist) pose with the NOAA 200th Anniversary logo with the NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON in the background. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS A CTD full of sensors and bottles is retrieved after an early morning station in the Bering Strait. |
 Photo: Kurt Kier, NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON While the officers and scientists were busy combing Glacier Bay National Park using acoustics during the ‘Untrawlable Habitat’ cruise, several crew had the opportunity to see some of the Park’s finest Glaciers via the workboat, Peggy D. Pictured from l-r: Norm Bauer, Vince Welton, Kurt Kier, Adrienne Duran, Bill Mowitt, Willie Sliney and Tara Peltier. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS Another day on the Bering Sea fishing for Pollock with the Aleutian Wing Trawl. |
 Photo: SST Colleen Peters, NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON A Methot being deployed in the early morning in the Bering Sea. |
 Photo: LT William Mowitt, NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON This season, the DYSON crew found out how well the ship is able to withstand icing. It may not look that way here, but with heating elements in the bulkheads, the ship’s structure and most importantly, bridge windows, are able to stay ice-free in even the most harsh winter conditions |
 Photo: SST Colleen Peters, NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON Issacs Kidd Trawls were done to compare to Methot trawls. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS The Juday being deployed off the hero deck. |
 Photo: Eric Husoe, AFSC The scientists and crew look into the live-box to see what was caught during a surface trawl. The box is designed to prevent salmon from being banged up in the cod end so that they could be tagged and released with a higher survival rate. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS The Multiple Opening and Closing Cod-end (MOCC) was tested during the summer Pollock survey. This device allows scientists to sample different layers of fish by opening and closing cod ends while trawling. |
 Photo: Tamara Mills, USFWS Deploying the Pairavet, for a vertical tow, off the hero deck. |
 Photo: Mark Rauzon, USFWS The deck, survey and science crew work together to attach “pocket nets” to the Midwater trawl. Scientist Kresimir Williams is trying to determine if the Aleutian Wing Trawl (AWT) is an accurate sampling tool by seeing how many fish are able to escape the net during a trawl. |
 Photo: Sarah Mincks, UAF One of the many species of sculpin caught in the beam trawls. |
 Photo: ENS Carl Rhodes, NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON The scientists from the Polar Ecosystem Program of the NMML set out in 3 zodiacs during the May cruise in search for ice seals. Ideally, the three boats would approach a seal from all directions in the attempt to surround it, and confuse it so that it would not escape into the water. |
 Photo: Peter Boveng, NMML The 2007 Ice Seals cruise scientists captured over 40 seals, and tagged 36 of them. Pictured is a ribbon pup with a satellite tag on its head, with the NOAA Ship OSCAR DYSON in the background. |
 Photo: Josh London, NMML Zodiacs being recovered after a full day of surveying ice seals in the Bering Sea. |
 Photo: Josh London, NMML Scientists from the Polar Ecosystem Program of the NMML at AFSC weigh a seal captured on the 2007 Ice Seal cruise. |
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