Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon carefully retrieving an SVP-BT buoy in newly frozen ice in a lead. This requires extreme caution as the ice is very thin and there is 1500 meters of very cold water below the ice.

Image ID: arct0169, NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Location: Alaska, Beaufort Sea
Photo Date: 2007 April 4
Credit: Collection of Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon, Chief Scientist National Ice Center

Category: Arctic Science/

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