Coast Guard Cutter Healy conducts science missions in Beaufort Sea
A team of researchers moves equipment across an ice floe to an installation site in the Beaufort Sea, Aug. 9, 2023. Healy is the Coast Guard’s only icebreaker specifically designed for Arctic research, as well as the nation’s sole surface presence routinely operating in the Arctic Ocean. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Briana Carter)