A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice.

A small iceberg at Seal Island.

Penguins and seals sharing beachfront real estate.

An elephant seal on the front porch of an AMLR field camp.

Chinstrap penguins copulating at a rookery.

An AMLR scientist walks along the crest of a snow-covered mountainsilhouetted by a dramatic vista of clouds.

Antarctic fur seals and chinstrap penguins congregate at a rocky inlet on Seal Island. These volcanic rock formations form a protected inlet where penguins and seals can raise their young.

Relaxing at the Seal Island field camp with a female southern elephant seal.

Scientists were building their camp at the Seal Island field station when this photo was taken in 1991. The buildings in the photo are the outhouse and the unfinished food storage building.

Snow clouds over Seal Island.

Traversing a glacier requires special equipment.

A biologist inspects a chinstrap penguin rookery.

Repairing weather monitoring equipment at a field station.

Scientists hiking across a glacier.

A penguin colony overlooking the AMLR field station at Seal Island.

Construction at the Seal Island field camp.

A fur seal pup after swimming.

A female Antarctic fur seal after a swim.

Tabular icebergs in the Southern Ocean.

A grounded iceberg called a "growler", sculpted by wind and waves.

A "growler" off Seal Island.

Icebergs offshore of a chinstrap penguin colony.

The volcanic origins of the South Shetland Islands are evident in these rocky, inshore formations.

Penguins and seals share coastal real estate, while researchers observe.

Biologists capturing a fur seal, which will be tagged and released.

A chinstrap penguin after swimming.

Chinstrap penguins returning to the beach after a foraging trip.

A chinstrap penguin preens while standing on a sleeping elephant seal.

AMLR crew headed for their base camp in four Zodiacs.

Iceberg, South Shetland Islands.

A sunny day in the fjords of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Taking a break on a snowy beach.

An ROV equipped with a camera for investigating benthic organisms.

Scientists lower a small net off the back of the R/V Surveyor, used by the AMLR from 1987 to 1995.

A benthic trawl at Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island.

Benthic trawl at Drygalski Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Expedition.

The research team with ROV, on the R/V Surveyor.

Sunrise over a snowy hill.

The remote-operated vehicle (ROV) AERG-8, being deployed from the research vessel.

ROV being deployed from the R/V Surveyor.

The current director of the AMLR program, Dr. George Watters.

The NOAA ship R/V Surveyor stands before a dramatic landscape in the South Shetland Islands. The R/V Surveyor was used by the AMLR Program from 1987 to 1995.

Whalebone debris on the shorelines of the South Shetland Islands testify to their former use as whaling stations.

Dr. George Watters next to a whale rib.

Crab trap.

Crab trap.

A catch of spino crabs.

A black rockcod caught in a research trawl.

Dr. George Watters enjoys a brisk day on deck.

Variation in shell condition in male spino crabs.