S4P: Photo Gallery
  • Exiting the C-17 on the ice shelf runway near McMurdo
  • Smoking Mt. Erebus active volcano from the ice runway
  • Emperor Penguin
  • Weddell seals
  • Scott 1902 Discovery hut
  • More inside Scott 1902 Discovery hut
  • Palmer arriving at McMurdo
  • Scott 1902 Discovery Hut, Nathaniel B. Palmer, McMurdo base
  • Emperor penguin
  • Adelie penguin
  • Another Adelie penguin
  • Palmer at the pier
  • Jim arriving at McMurdo
  • Jim playing the bassoon
  • Penguins as ship departed
  • Antarctic scenery
  • More Antarctic scenery
  • A storage van on the fantail was partly caved in by a wave
  • Waves on deck
  • Nasty weather
  • Leopard seals
  • Crabeater seals
  • Icebergs
  • Sunset by Aimee Neeley
  • Aurora Australis with Orion's Belt
  • Aurora Australis
  • Humpback Whale tail
  • Emperor penguins
  • Iceberg at sunset
  • Two emperor penguins
  • View from the bridge with second mate Brandon Bell and PO grad student Eric Mortenson
  • Many ice types
  • Group of penguins on iceberg
  • Moonrise and an iceberg
  • Line of Adelie penguins
  • Ice and water at sunset
  • Mooring recovery
  • Mooring recovery with Alex Orsi, Jim Ryder, and Barry Bjork
  • Seabird cruising above the ice
  • Seabird landing on/taking off from the ice
  • Line of penguins
  • Penguins diving from the ice
  • Whale backs
  • Wave breaking on a large iceberg
  • Moonrise over the ice
  • Humpback whales
  • Humpback whale tail
  • Humpback whale up close
  • Humpback whales even closer
  • Two of the four 3180 HP marine diesel engines
  • Mooring specialist Jim Ryder in his element, deploying the Yuan/Sprintall mooring
  • Equipment being staged on the Yuan/Sprintall mooring deployed by the Palmer
  • Palmer gym
  • Can you find the penguin?
  • Here is the penguin
  • Iceberg and rainbow
  • Group of seals on the ice
  • Soccer game on the ice with Juan about to kick the ball
  • Ice party in progress
  • Can you find the penguin?
  • Recovery of one of the big floats from Dr. Limeburner's mooring
  • The unusual-looking sea life on of the big floats
  • Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler covered with 10 years of marine growth