Open water with a large ice floe

Looking over the bow of the USCGC HEALY towards open water with the edge of an ice floe on the port bow.

Melt pools breaking through with the dark area at bottom being Arctic seawater.

Refreezing melt ponds leave aquamarine patterns in multi-year ice.

A vista of multi-year ice with a large area of open water

Multi-year ice floes and first year ice floes (smooth floes in upper left) coming together at end of Arctic summer.

Multi-year ice floes and first year ice floes coming together at end of Arctic summer.

Multi-year ice floes and first year ice floes coming together at end of Arctic summer. Large areas of open water still evident.

A large area of open water with unbroken ice pack in the distance.

Multi-year ice floes and first year ice floes coming together at end of Arctic summer.

Ice floes and open water. Large remnant of ridge in center of photo. Note melt ponds covered with ice and show in lower right.

Ice floes and open water. Large remnant of ridge in center of photo.

Looking over the bow of the USCGC HEALY towards an extensive area of multi- year ice with refreezing melt ponds.

A lead through an area of first-year ice floes.

Passing through ice floes on a gray foggy day.

Multi-year ice floes with melt ponds almost completely frozen over. A fog bow is evident in top left of image.

Passing through ice floes on a gray foggy day.

Passing through ice floes on a gray foggy day. Aquamarine melt ponds are frozen over.

An intact melt pond on a multi-year ice floe.

Brash ice and first-year ice floes

Melt pools refreeze and ice floes come together as the great ice floes and ice fields begin to reform at the end of the Arctic summer.

Ice floe with a foot pattern.

On the edge of ice floes freezing together

A large area of open water with areas of frazil ice giving patchy oily appearance to water surface.

A floe of multi-year ice along the edge of the pack ice.

Large ice cube in open water

80 to 90 percent ice cover is shown on the radarscope of the CGC HEALY. Latitude 81 19 N, Longitude 153 59 W.

Large ice floe with a fracture with floes and open water in upper half of image.

Frazil ice

Nilas ice

New ice forming along the edge of multi-year ice floes.

Grease ice forming over a large area of open water.

Passing through ice floes in a refreezing Arctic Ocean

A single ice floe in an area of grease ice forming over open water.

Nilas ice forming between floes of multi-year ice.

A ridge between colliding ice floes.

A ridge between colliding ice floes.

A variety of ice types are seen in this picture as the refreezing process continues.

Nilas ice and frazil ice forming in open water around an ice floe.

A vista of multi-year ice.

A vista of multi-year ice.

Nilas ice surrounding a floe.

Dark nilas ice which easily bends on waves and swell.

Dark nilas ice which easily bends on waves and swell.

Nilas ice with open water and frazil ice to the right

Open water with hand-launched ice buoys that will freeze into the ice as fall and winter approach.

Melt pools freezing as floes begin coming together.

Radar scope image of over 80% ice cover at 79 14 N 147 57 W

Frazil ice giving gritty appearance to water surface with floes coming together as melt pools refreeze.

Ice floe becoming locked in place as nilas and gray ice form.