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Paths Less Taken

Scientists, sailors, pilots, divers, and other members of the NOAA family and its predecessor agencies have worked on every continent and in every climate that exists on Earth.

This collection records but a small fraction of that experience but will take you from Arctic regions to the South Pole, island-hopping from tropics to polar regions, and from the stratosphere to the bottom of the sea.

Sub Categories

Boats anchored offshore from Pinnacle Rock
Islands in the Sun
Measuring a Planet - Satellite Triangulation
Emperor penguin colony at Cape Washington in the Ross Sea
The Antarctic
Harley Nygren dressed in the latest Arctic style
The Arctic Field Party (1949-1951)
The bow of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship BROWN BEAR
The Northern Seas, Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

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Melt pools freezing as floes begin coming together

Melt pools freezing as floes begin coming together.

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

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

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Frazil ice giving gritty appearance to water surface with floes coming togetheras melt pools refreeze

Frazil ice giving gritty appearance to water surface with floes...

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

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

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Open water with frazil ice forming between floes

Open water with frazil ice forming between floes

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Refraction pattern in open water in vicinity of small chunk of ice

Refraction pattern in open water in vicinity of small chunk of...

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Brash ice with refraction pattern and frazil ice forming

Brash ice with refraction pattern and frazil ice forming.

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Frazil ice, nilas ice, and ice floes

Frazil ice, nilas ice, and ice floes

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