Patagonian toothfish, aka Chilean sea bass.

Crab fishermen.

Measuring spino crabs.

A team of AMLR scientists and Russian crew pull in trawling nets during the 1997 demersal fish survey aboard the R/V YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA

The trawl net deployed from the R/V YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA

AMLR scientists work diligently through inclement weather at the catch sorting station on the stern of the R/V YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA

The Russian ship R/V YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA was chartered by the AMLR Program from 1996 through 2009.

Sea stars, crabs and octopus in a benthic invertebrate catch.

A haul of icefish from a research trawl.

An Antarctic ichthyologist holds a fish sample.

Capturing gentoo penguins for tagging and diet analysis; the birds are then released unharmed.

An aerial view of Copacabana field station and surrounding penguin colonies.

A remote observation shack must be anchored with heavy stones because of strong katabatic winds.

A pair of chinstrap penguins.

Opus and Berkeley Breathed at Martha Jane's grave.

Opus' Mom's grave with Berkeley Breathed.

A rock formation at King George Island, nicknamed the Sphinx.

An early AMLR field camp at King George Island.

Lenie station with "cave" attached.

Krill sorting outside the Copacabana field station.

"The Box" (with picture of basketball coach Bobby Knight).

Skua chick.

A pair of skuas protect their nest from AMLR field biologist who diligently records the animals' activities throughout the breeding season near the records the animals' activities throughout the breeding season near the

A kelp gull with a nearly full-grown chick perch atop rocks covered in red and black lichens.

A banded skua stands on colorful rocks covered in green grasses and orange lichen.

A rare white phase of Southern giant petrel nests at King George Island. About 8% of Southern giant petrels are white.

A southern giant petrel guards its chick.

A brown skua sits on its nest.

A tagged skua steals eggs from a nest as Adelie penguins look on in defense of their own nests.

A cape petrel rests on the ocean's surface.

An adult skua stretches its wings, revealing identification tags used by AMLR scientists to study foraging behavior of an animal throughout a single breeding season. The tags are molted off with the feathers at the end of the season.

An adult skua stands on a lichen-covered rock. Identification tags are visible on its wing and both legs.

A brown skua sits on its nest, barely visible amid the mottled pattern of browns and oranges on the surrouding rocks. Skuas are often difficult to see on their nests.

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) feeding at the ice edge.

An adult gentoo penguin feeding its chick.

Full moon over Admiralty Bay.The reflection silhouettes a lone penguin.

Pancake ice surrounding King George Island. A little better than 1/2 moon shines down during the night-time pink-hued twilight.

A skua flies away from an Adelie penguin colony with a stolen egg. Breeding pairs of skuas hold feeding territories in penguin colonies, and use those colonies as their hunting grounds.

A nesting Adelie penguin. Adults build nests made of small stones, and parents take turns incubating the two eggs. The French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named these penguins after his wife , Adelie. They are the smallest species of penguin in the Antarctic.

A chinstrap penguin and chick.

Chinstrap penguin.

A penguin colony at King George Island in 1978.

Shoveling snow in front of Copacabana field station.

A critical component of any Antarctic field station: the generator.

The Polish field station at King George Island, "Arctowski".

The lighthouse at the Polish Antarctic research station Henryk Arctowski, King George Island.

A chinstrap penguin oufitted with a radio transmitter.

Asynchronous hatching in a gentoo penguin nest.

A chinstrap penguin with two chicks.

An unusually calm day in the South Shetland Islands, with mirror-like waters.