(August - September) Follow along as scientists conduct long-term research to better understand the causes and consequences of environmental change in the fragile Arctic environment.
(November) During the 2009 Russian-American Long-Term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) expedition, scientists will again visit the Bering Strait and northwards to the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean, as they did in 2004.
(June - July) Scientists participated in a collaborative effort to explore the frigid depths of the Canada Basin, located in one of the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean.
(August) The expedition party dove to 3,500 meters to conduct biological and geological investigations on five submerged volcanoes over a 400-nautical-mile section of the Northeast Pacific.
(June - July) Scientists studied several unexplored seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska to understand how they formed and to determine their volcanic history.
(August - September) An international team explored the frigid depths of the remote Canada Basin, located in the Arctic Ocean. Due to the region's heavy year-round ice cover, this expedition was the first one of its kind.
(August - September) The 2010 Extended Continental Shelf survey is a five-week-long Arctic mapping expedition involving two icebreakers: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent.
(August) NOAA joins a multi-agency joint expedition that brings together icebreakers from the U.S. and Canada to collect and share data useful to both countries in defining the full extent of the Arctic continental shelf.
(August - March) Scientists attach sensors to deep-diving narwhals to uncover their secrets and better understand Arctic waters.
(April) Nearly half of the United States ocean coastline falls within the boundaries of the State of Alaska. The state’s continental shelf is the final resting place for more than 4,000 known shipwrecks. See how scientists discovered some of Alaska's submerged heritage.
(July - August) A team of U.S. and Russian scientists embarked on an exploration of the Bering and Chukchi Seas, an area thought be particularly sensitive to global climate change.
(July) Scientists investigated the wreck of the Kad'yak, a Russian-American Company bark-rigged sailing vessel. In the final years before the United States purchased Alaska in 1867, the ship carried trade goods between Russian settlements and the Hawaiian Islands.
(September) A team mapped parts of the world’s least explored ocean, the Arctic. The expedition covered the Chukchi and Northwind Ridge.
(June - July) Scientists used an experimental system which was, at the time, one of only three in the world, to characterize very small-scale environments in Alaska.