SCIENTIFIC ICE CAPADES—The GLOBEC Southern Ocean winter cruises offered scientists unprecedented opportunities for a variety of studies of this remote, largely unexplored region. Above, Frank Stewart (left) of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jenny Boe of the University of Nevada collect sea ice cores to study the distribution, activity, and dynamics of sea ice microbes in August 2002. (Photo by Peter Wiebe, WHOI)[back]
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