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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.

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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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Snow on the ground at Mauna Loa Observatory

Snow on the ground at Mauna Loa Observatory.

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Snow on the ground at Mauna Loa Observatory

Snow on the ground at Mauna Loa Observatory.

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A snowman in Hawaii!

A snowman in Hawaii!

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Brrrrr!  John Bortniak in a down parka in Hawaii

Brrrrr! John Bortniak in a down parka in Hawaii.

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John Bortniak taking rainfall readings at the Mauna Loa Observatory

John Bortniak taking rainfall readings at the Mauna Loa...

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A rainwater collector - part of an acid rain observation network that extendsfrom Hilo all the way up Mauna Loa to the observatory at various elevations

A rainwater collector - part of an acid rain observation network...

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Preparing to take air sample for carbon dioxide analysis

Preparing to take air sample for carbon dioxide analysis.

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Using an evacuated glass flask to collect air sample to be analyzed for carbondioxide

Using an evacuated glass flask to collect air sample to be...

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