Logs

 
 
During the two-month-long HOTRAX program we made a large number of measurements regarding ice morphology and solar radiation. In addition to these quantative measurements are a wealth of qualitative observations including personal logs and photo albums. These observations are presented here.


Crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy at the North Pole, September 12, 2005.
 

 
Don's Log - Don Perovich's log of the cruise with photographs. This log was published during the cruise.

Tom's Log - Tom Grenfell's daily comments on the cruise.

Photo album - Selected photographs from this trip across the top of the world.

Noon panorama - Panoramas taken from the flying bridge of the ship daily at noon.

Aloftcon movie - A time-lapse movie of HOTRAX using photographs taken from a camera in the Aloftcon.

Sounds of HOTRAX - Audio files of the Healy engines, ice breaking from the mess hall, and the noon alarm test.

Videos - Jeremby Harbeck used his digitial camera to make some short videos of various activities during HOTRAX.

 


Ice team at the North Pole: Bruce Elder, Tom Grenfell, Jeremy Harbeck, and Don Perovich.