Petty Officer 3rd Class Dan Gomes, a boatswain's mate aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy and Rob Rember, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, are lowered onto a large ice floe by crane to collect ice samples in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 3, 2015. Healy is underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded Arctic GEOTRACES, part of an international effort to study the distribution of trace elements in the world's oceans. ( Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)

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