Plankton Under Ice

In May and June 2014, a cruise co-led by WHOI scientist Bob Pickart aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy went to the Arctic to study large phytoplankton blooms forming under sea ice in spring. Along were scientists, photographers, videographers, a teacher, a writer, and artists, all documenting the Arctic spring. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian, on the cruise to study Arctic animal plankton, took this photo of Healy crew members and another scientist, Moritz Schmid of the Universite Laval, Canada (far right) launching a plankton imaging system from the deck.(Photo by Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)