NOAA Ship Fairweather conducting hydrographic reconnaissance in the Arctic

NOAA Ship Fairweather conducting hydrographic reconnaissance in the Arctic

Mission to update measurements dating to the 18th century

NOAA Ship Fairweather begins a 30-day survey mission in the Arctic this week, scheduled to check a sparsely measured 1,500-nautical mile coastal corridor from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, north through the Bering Strait and east to the Canadian border.

July 30, 2012

read more:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20120730_fairweather.html

image:

http://www.moc.noaa.gov/fa/