Snow Packing

In April 2007, WHOI arctic research specialist Rick Krishfield (left) and engineering assistant Kris Newhall unloaded crates of scientific gear–ultimately bound for the North Pole–on Ellesmere Island at Canadian Forces Station Alert, the northernmost settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Krishfield and Newhall are working in the high Arctic again this week, deploying ice-tetherer profilers and other instruments at the North Pole.
(Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)