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Shuttle
Columbia the evening before the January 16, 2003 launch. |
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Launch
of the Shuttle Columbia on January 16, 2003 on the STS-107 mission. |
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Dr.
Mike Delp (ATM sweatshirt) and lab personnel performing experiments
at Kennedy Space Center. |
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Dr.
Delp and his lab personnel. They attended the shuttle memorial at
Johnson Space Center. |
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Dr.
Delp (far right) with three STS-107 shuttle crew members (Michael
Anderson, Dave Brown and Laurel Clark) and others at a training session
at Johnson Space Center for care of rats. |
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This
pup, happily playing next to its mother, is probably not more than
2 weeks old. |
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This
adult Weddell seal is equipped with a "seal cam" and other
instruments to gather data. This female weighs about 450 kg. The 3-year
project is funded by NSF and has produced many insights on the behavior
of Weddell seals under the ice. |
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The
Barne Glacier, Antarctica, with two Weddell seals sleeping on the
ice. |
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To
assess the local populations of seals, the use of helicopters was
necessary. Texas A&M researcher Dr. Randy Davis holds the door
as graduate student Rebecca Watson climbs into the helicopter. |
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Russian
and American students join together to launch the research vessel
for a day on the water.
Photo
by David Weller 2002.
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young western gray whale, with tooth marks on the body and flipper
from a non-lethal interaction with killer whales, breaches off the
coast of northeastern Sakhalin Island, Russia.
Photo by David Weller 2002. |
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| The
Piltun Lighthouse and summer research station for the collaborative
Russia-U.S. Research program on critically endangered western gray
whales.
Photo by David Weller 2002. |
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| Western
gray whale resting at the surface between foraging dives in the Okhotsk
Sea.
Photo by David Weller 2002. |
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Research
Assistants Amanda Bradford and Aimee Lang, dressed in cold weather
research gear, are ready for another day of work on the sea.
Photo by David Weller 2002. |
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| Steller
sea eagle takes flight.
Photo by David Weller 2002. |
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| Cloud
to ground lightning over Lake Lugano Switzerland.
Richard L. Orville |
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| Lightning
initiated by an upward-moving leader from a tower on Mt. San Salvatore
near Lugano, Switzerland. Upward-initiated lightning is branched upward
in contrast to the downward branching of the usual cloud-to-ground
lightning flash.
Richard L. Orville |
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| Lightning
strikes twice! Another upward-going lightning from the San Salvatore
tower.
Richard L. Orville |
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