Joshua Jones (left), Principal Investigator with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Marc Rothwell (right), an Ice Navigator and 35-year veteran of the Canadian Coast Guard, embark the Coast Guard Cutter Maple (WLB 207) during a port call in Nome, Alaska, to conduct marine science research and assist the crew with ice breaking on its historic voyage up through the Northwest Passage, July 20, 2017. Cutter Maple and crew are scheduled to arrive in late August to the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore. Coast Guard photo.

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