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  • Homer boat harbor viewed from the loading dock
  • Turnagain Arm from Highway 1 east of Anchorage
  • Homer boat harbor looking west
  • One of the more colorful spots on Homer Spit
  • CCMA scientists reunite (from left Kimani Kimbrough, Gunnar Lauenstein, Kris Holderied, Ed Johnson, and Ian Hartwell)
  • Homer boat harbor looking east
  • CCMA scientists Kimani Kimbrough and Ian Hartwell stand in front of the F/V Columbia
  • Deck hand Everett Anderson for F/V Columbia
  • Mark Janes, scientist with NUKA Research and Planning Group, LLC
  • Mark Janes, NUKA Research, prepares video recorder to capture images as sediment grab sampler is deployed
  • CCMA scientists Ian Hartwell and Ed Johnson inspect sediment grab sample recovered from Kachemak Bay
  • Capt. John Crosbie of the F/V Columbia and first mate Everett Anderson
  • CCMA scientist Ed Johnson on Kachemak Bay with Grewingk Glacier in the background
  • Homer High School students, Michael McNulty and Erika Gavenus, learn about sieving sediment samples for benthic infauna
  • Homer High School students, Erika Gavenus and Michael McNulty, observe a polychaete worm that was collected from sediment in upper Kachemak Bay
  • CCMA scientist, Ian Hartwell, prepares a sediment sample that will be used to determine toxicity to amphipods
  • Scientist Mark Janes of NUKA Research, deploys a secchi disk used to measure water clarity
  • A crab and tube worm casing found in a benthic grab sample
  • High School Student, Erika Gavenus, stands ready to record water quality data as CCMA scientist Ian Hartwell prepares a Niskin bottle used to collect water samples below the surface
  • Fog rolls in over the south shore of Kachemak Bay obscuring the Kenai Mountains in the background
  • Homer High School student Michael McNulty holds a starfish inadvertently captured with our sediment sampler
  • Unidentified benthic infauna
  • Evening light at Homer boat harbor with the Kenai Mountains in the background
  • Wind blown fog spills over Point Pogibshi north of Port Graham
  • Capt John Crosbie and scientist Tim Robertson a principal with NUKA Research in the wheel house of the F/V Columbia on their way to Port Graham
  • Capt. John Crosbie maneuvers the F/V Columbia into Port Graham, Alaska
  • Glenn Seaman, Native Alaskan Liaison for NOAA, confers with Capt. John Crosbie as CCMA scientist Ian Hartwell looks on
  • Port Graham resident and holder of traditional knowledge confers with CCMA scientist Ian Hartwell
  • Port Graham resident and holder of traditional knowledge observes benthic infauna isolated from sediment collected from Port Graham as scientist Glenn Seaman looks on
  • After removing sediment with a sieve a variety of benthic infauna can be observed including polychaetes, flatworms and brittle stars
  • Snow capped Ilimna volcano seen from Port Graham, Alaska over fifty miles away
  • CCMA scientist Kimani Kimbrough prepares a cooler filled with samples to be shipped to the lab
  • CCMA scientist Ian Hartwell prepares airbills to ship samples to the lab
  • Looking south from west end of Homer Spit
  • From the mainland looking east over Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska
  • Monument to lost seamen in the Seafarer's Memorial on Homer Spit
  • Seafarer’ Memorial, “The Sea” by Ryan Bundy 1996
  • Memorial to those lost at sea, Homer Spit
  • The fishing vessel (F/V) Columbia tied up in Homer harbor
  • CCMA scientist Ed Johnson observes sea kelp holdfast