Baskets of clams ready for market in a clam aquaculture facility.

Large scale aquaculture facility.

Lobster boat somwhere in New England.

New England fisherman with lobster pots on the dock.

Lobster pots on the dock.

Native fishermen display catch

Fish wheel o the Yukon river near Ruby

Fish wheel o the Yukon river near Ruby

A molting chinstrap penguin

A storm approaching Cape Shirreff

A humpback whale, with visible dorsal hump that gives it its name.

An Antarctic fur seal pup sporting a flipper tag.

Iceberg with both beautiful blue-green submerged portion and a reflection of the surface ice and snow. Approximately 90 per cent of the iceberg is submerged.

The icy coastal Antarctic

The AMLR science crew on the bow of the R/V YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA.

Snow-shrouded mountain peaks rising seen through storm clouds. A high icy barrier extends offshore from the mountain range.

An icy ridge extends towards the sea. A large iceberg is seen below the ridge.

Scientists on a trek across the ice and snow give scale to an Antarctic landscape.

Scientists on a trek across the ice and snow give scale to an Antarctic landscape.

Antarctic scientist starting work for the day at the Cape Shirreff bird blind.

An Antarctic fur seal giving birth, or 'pupping" at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island. A female fur seal is pregnant for about a year, then gives birth to a single pup. About a week after birth she becomes sexually receptive and mates, and the reproductive cycle begins anew.

A fur seal mother cleaning her newborn pup.

A female Antarctic fur seal and her newborn pup, only minutes old.

A seal researcher doing double duty shoveling snow at an AMLR field station.

A seal researcher opening camp for the season at Cape Shirreff.

A southern elephant seal bull, at home among the icebergs.

A seal biologist analyzing seal scats (feces), which provide clues about the animals' diet.

Scientists capture crabeater seals on an ice floe in Lalamon Fjord.

The Cape Shirreff field station, Livingston Islnad, showing the solar panel (right) that the scientists use to power their camps.

Close up of an Antarctic fur seal, basking in the sun.

A group of gentoo penguins gather along an icy shoreline.

An AMLR scientist treks along a glacier in the morning silence, with only a penguin for company.

A female elephant seal snoozes on a warm piece of ship debris.

A large iceberg with an ice cave in Lalamon Fjord

Mountain ridges on the Antarctic Peninsula in the winter.

A tabular iceberg, fractured and sculpted by wind and ice.

Close up of a freshly molted gentoo penguin.

AMLR scientists monitor many breeding sites around Livingston Island, some of which are far away from the Cape Shirreff field station. During early summer, before the snow has melted, scientists will ski from site to site.

A gentoo penguin performing a courtship display.

A gentoo penguin warming its egg.

Elephant seal bulls sparring.

A southern right whale in the Southern Ocean.

Female elephant seals at a chinstrap penguin colony.

Southern elephant seals sparring at Seal Island, with chinstrap penguins looking on.

an AMLR scientist traverses the stark but beautiful Antarctic landscape toward a pinniped monitoring site.

The Seal Island field camp in 1992.

Two researchers on a Zodiac, near Seal Island.

A resting Weddell seal.

A molting elephant seal on the front porch of the field camp at Seal Island.

A southern giant petrel rests after scavenging on carrion.