Blue hard hat, white caps

USCGC Healy boatswain’s mate Ray Mendoza arranges ropes during a spring 2009 research cruise, led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian, to study the Bering Sea ecosystem at a time of changing climate. The cruise was featured as a “Live From the Poles” expedition on the WHOI Polar Discovery site.(Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)