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Into the Mystic

On a gray day in August 2006, WHOI research associate Phil Alatalo (right) and Captain Bill Kopplin motored out to the R/V Annika Marie at Barrow, Alaska. Alatalo participated in Carin Ashjian’s study of oceanographic conditions prior to the annual bowhead whale migration there. (Photo by Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)