2010 Joint United States-Canadian Program to Explore the 

Limits of the Extended Continental Shelf Aboard U.S. Coast 

Guard Cutter Healy—Cruise HLY1002

August 2–September 6, 2010

Dutch Harbor to Barrow, Alaska

By Brian D. Edwards, Jonathan R. Childs, Peter J. Triezenberg, William W. Danforth, and Helen Gibbons

Open-File Report 2013–1067

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Department of the Interior

SALLY JEWELL, Secretary

U.S. Geological Survey

Suzette M. Kimball, Acting Director

U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2013

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Contents

Abstract ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1

Introduction.................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Previous Surveys........................................................................................................................................................... 8

Scientific Party............................................................................................................................................................... 9

Underway Geophysical Data Acquisition and Processing ............................................................................................10

Multibeam Swath Bathymetry ...................................................................................................................................10

Acquisition.............................................................................................................................................................10

Processing ............................................................................................................................................................11

CTD/XBT...................................................................................................................................................................12

CHIRP Subbottom Profiler ........................................................................................................................................12

Acquisition.............................................................................................................................................................12

Processing ............................................................................................................................................................12

Sea Gravimeter Data ................................................................................................................................................12

Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP)...............................................................................................................13

Geological Sampling.....................................................................................................................................................13

Ship Operations............................................................................................................................................................17

Data and Metadata .......................................................................................................................................................22

Public Outreach ............................................................................................................................................................23

Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................................23

References Cited..........................................................................................................................................................24

Appendices...................................................................................................................................................................26

Appendix A. Cruise-level Metadata...........................................................................................................................26

Appendix B. Data Synopsis (Chayes, Bolmer and Roberts) .....................................................................................26

Appendix C. Digital Data Formats.............................................................................................................................26

Appendix D. Geophysical Watchstander E-logs........................................................................................................26

Appendix E. Coring Operations Deck Logs...............................................................................................................26

Appendix F. Water Sampling and Ocean Acidification Measurements .....................................................................26

Appendix G . Protected Species Observer Report....................................................................................................26

Appendix H. Polar Bear Interaction Plan...................................................................................................................26

Figures

Figure 1. Photo showing U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker 

Louis S. St-Laurent (Louis) breaking through ice in the Arctic Beaufort Sea ................................................................. 3

Figure 2. Figure illustrating the quality of Healy swath multibeam data coverage in 2008 ............................................ 4

Figure 3. Map showing tracklines for Healy (red) and Louis (yellow), and when both vessels 

were in convoy (purple) ................................................................................................................................................. 6

Figure 4. Map showing trackline locations for Healy (red) and Louis (yellow)............................................................... 7

Figure 5. Photograph showing piston coring system on aft deck of Healy. ................................................................. 14

Figure 6. Multibeam bathymetric model showing hydrate mound with core sites indicated by red dots...................... 15

Figure 7. Photograph showing gas hydrate recovery in core catcher of piston core 1P-1.......................................... 15
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Tables

Table 1.HLY1002 scientific party................................................................................................................................... 9

Table 2.Mis-ties (in milligals) at line crossings for two gravity meters (BGM-221, BGM-222) during four 

Healy Arctic cruises, 2008 to 2011 .............................................................................................................................. 13

Table 3.Details of coring locations, recovery, and subsamples taken. ........................................................................ 16

Table 4.Chronology of ship operations during conduct of HLY1002 and LSSL2012................................................... 17

Table 5.Time periods during which the Healy bathymetry and CHIRP subbottom data are embargoed 

until further notice. ....................................................................................................................................................... 22

Conversion Factors

Inch/Pound to SI

Multiply By To obtain

Mass

pound, avoirdupois (lb) 0.4536 kilogram (kg) 

Length

mile, nautical (nmi) 1.852 kilometer (km)

SI to Inch/Pound

Multiply By To obtain

Length

meter (m) 3.281 foot (ft) 

kilometer (km) 0.6214 mile (mi)

kilometer (km) 0.5400 mile, nautical (nmi) 

meter (m) 1.094 yard (yd) 

Area

square kilometer (km2) 247.1 acre

Flow rate

meter per second (m/s) 3.281 foot per second (ft/s) 

 Acceleration

milligal (mGal) 100 meter per second per second (m/s2)
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2010 Joint United States-Canadian Program to Explore the 

Limits of the Extended Continental Shelf Aboard U.S. 

Coast Guard Cutter Healy—Cruise HLY1002

August 2—September 6, 2010

Dutch Harbor to Barrow, Alaska

By Brian D. Edwards, Jonathan R. Childs, Peter J. Triezenberg, William W. Danforth, and Helen Gibbons

Abstract 

In August and September 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Natural 

Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, conducted bathymetric and geophysical surveys in the 

Beaufort Sea and eastern Arctic Ocean aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy. The principal 

objective of this mission to the high Arctic was to acquire data in support of a delineation of the outer 

limits of the U.S. and Canadian Extended Continental Shelf in the Arctic Ocean, in accordance with the 

provisions of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. 

The Healy was accompanied by the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. The 

scientific parties on board the two vessels consisted principally of staff from the U.S. Geological Survey 

(Healy), and the Geological Survey of Canada and the Canadian Hydrographic Service (Louis). The 

crew also included marine-mammal observers, Native-community observers, ice observers, and 

biologists conducting research of opportunity in the Arctic Ocean.

Despite interruptions necessitated by three medical emergencies, the joint survey proved largely 

successful. The Healy collected 7,201 trackline-kilometers of swath (multibeam) bathymetry (47,663 

square kilometers) and CHIRP subbottom data, with accompanying marine gravity measurements, and 

expendable bathythermograph data. The Louis acquired 3,673 trackline-kilometers of multichannel 

seismic (airgun) deep-penetration reflection data along 25 continuous profiles, as well as 34 sonobuoy 

refraction stations and 9,500 trackline-kilometers of single-beam bathymetry. The coordinated efforts of 

the two vessels resulted in seismic-reflection-profile data that were of much higher quality and 

continuity than if the data had been acquired with a single vessel alone. The equipment-failure rate of 

the seismic equipment aboard the Louis was greatly reduced when the Healy led as the ice breaker. 

When ice conditions proved too severe to deploy the seismic system, the Louis led the Healy, resulting 

in much improved quality of the swath bathymetric and CHIRP subbottom data in comparison with data 

collected either by the Healy in the lead or the Healy working alone. 
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During periods when the Healy was operating alone (principally when the Louis was diverted for 

emergency medical evacuations or ship repairs), the Healy was able to deploy a piston-core-sampler (10 

meters maximum potential recovery depending on configuration). The coring operations resulted in 

recovery of cores at five locations ranging from 2.4 to 5.7 meters in length from water depths ranging 

from 1,157 to 3,700 meters. One of these cores sited on the Alaskan margin recovered the first reported 

occurrence of methane hydrate from the Arctic Ocean.

Ancillary science objectives, including ice observations and deployment of ice-monitoring buoys 

and water-column sampling to measure acidification of Arctic waters were successfully conducted. The 

water-column sampling included using 10 full-ocean-depth, water-sampling casts with accompanying 

conductivity-temperature-depth measurements.

Except for the data deemed proprietary, data from the cruise have been archived and are 

available for download at the National Geophysical Data Center and at cooperating organizations. 

Outreach staff and guest teachers aboard the two vessels provided near-real-time connection 

between the research activities and the public through online blogs, web pages, and other media. 

Introduction

In August and September 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with 

Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), conducted bathymetric and 

geophysical surveys in the Arctic Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin aboard the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)

Cutter Healy under the command of Capt. William (Bill) J. Rall. The principal objective of this mission

(USCG identifier HLY1002; USGS Field Activity ID: H-3-10-AR) to the high Arctic was to acquire 

data in support of a delineation of the outer limits of the Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) beyond the 

200-nmi-wide Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Arctic Ocean in accordance with the provisions 

of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (see 

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm).

The Healy was accompanied by the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent

(survey identifier LSSL2012; fig. 1). The scientific parties on board the two vessels consisted 

principally of staff from the USGS (Healy), and the GSC and the Canadian Hydrographic Service 

(Louis). The crew included marine-mammal observers, Native-community observers, ice observers, and 

oceanographers conducting research of opportunity in the Arctic Ocean. 
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Figure 1. Photo showing U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. StLaurent (Louis) breaking through ice in the Arctic Beaufort Sea.

The Healy departed Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on August 2, 2010; the Louis departed Kugluktuk, 

Nunavut, Canada, on August 6, 2010. Upon arrival in the operation area on August 8 (dates and times 

are in Coordinated Universal Time [UTC] “-7” unless noted otherwise), the Healy spent 2 days 

conducting a single-vessel multibeam bathymetric survey near longitude 141°W, a zone of mutual 

interest to the U.S. and Canada. During this time, the Louis’ scientific party deployed and tested airgun 

seismic-reflection gear in open water. The two vessels rendezvoused on August 11, and proceeded west 

to commence the seismic survey in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). However, after only a 

few hours, a crewmember on board the Louis was injured. The Louis suspended the seismic survey and 

transited to Tuktoyuktuk, Canada, for the medical evacuation (medevac). During this 2-day medevac by

the Louis, the Healy conducted coring operations along the Beaufort margin and recovered one gravity 

core and two piston cores (see section, “Geological Sampling” for details). The two vessels rejoined on 

August 13 and conducted seismic surveys in the U.S. EEZ. When clear of the ice pack on August 16, 

the Healy left the Louis and transited to Barrow, Alaska, to pick up a replacement engineer and engine 

room parts for the Louis; the Healy rejoined the Louis on August 17, and the vessels continued joint 

operations within the U.S. EEZ. Throughout the joint operations, the Healy typically led the Louis

during seismic-reflection profiling, while the Louis led the Healy when heavy ice conditions precluded 

deployment of the seismic-reflection system, incidentally resulting in significant improvement of the 

multibeam data quality (fig. 2). 
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Figure 2. Figure illustrating the quality of Healy swath multibeam data coverage in 2008. Red trackline along the 

swath centerbeam identifies Healy breaking ice in front of Louis. White trackline along the centerbeam identifies 

Louis breaking ice in front of Healy. Note the marked improvement in swath continuity and width when Healy was 

the trailing vessel.
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Early in the morning on August 24, the Louis was forced to stop data collection owing to a 

damaged bearing on her port drive shaft assembly. After determining the nature of the damage and the 

Louis’ safety, the Healy steamed alone to the site of the 2009 seamount discovery (Mayer and 

Armstrong, 2009), conducted a survey, and, unable to dredge because of ice conditions, recovered a 

piston core from a sediment pond on the upper flank of the seamount. The vessels rejoined midday on 

August 26, and continued joint operations until a medical emergency aboard the Louis on August 29 

necessitated a second medevac. For 2 days, the ships convoyed south through heavy ice with the Healy

typically leading the way. On August 30, shortly after clearing the heavy ice, an injury to a Healy crew 

member required transport to the Louis. The Louis then proceeded alone to Tuktoyuktuk, Canada, with 

both injured personnel. Between August 30 and September 2, the Healy conducted coring operations off 

the Canadian continental margin. The ships met again on September 3 and conducted joint seismic 

survey operations until early evening on September 4 when the two ships parted. The Healy returned to 

Barrow, Alaska, on September 6, and the Louis returned to Kugluktuk, Canada, on September 15 (fig. 

3). Detailed trackline navigation for the two ships is presented in figure 4. Mosher and others (2011) 

compiled a cruise report for the Louis leg of the mission. 

USGS activities in mapping the ECS are coordinated through the U.S. Extended Continental 

Shelf Task Force, which is composed of representatives from the USGS, the U.S. Department of State, 

the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and several other governmental 

agencies. Further information on the task force and its activities is posted at 

http://www.continentalshelf.gov/. 
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Figure 3. Map showing tracklines for Healy (red) and Louis (yellow), and when both vessels were in convoy 

(purple). Stars indicate the location of coring sites; circles indicate the location of conductivity-temperature-depth

rosette casts (with station identification number) done from Healy. 
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Figure 4. Map showing trackline locations for Healy (red) and Louis (yellow). Clicking on the figure will bring up a 

full resolution view of the tracklines revealing the relative position of each vessel. The tracks for both ships are 

annotated every hour - Healy tracks are annotated with month/day and Louis tracks are annotated with day-of-theyear (the conventions used to record dates on the respective vessels). U.S. and Canadian EEZ boundaries are 

shown for reference. NOTE: the swath bathymetry and subbottom profile data acquired during HLY1002 within the 

Canadian 200-nautical-mile-wide EEZ are proprietary and public release is not authorized at this time. See section,

“Data and Metadata” for further details.
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Previous Surveys

This joint U.S.-Canadian program, started in 2008, was built on earlier work by both countries. 

The USGS (with Canadian participation) conducted geophysical surveys in 1988, 1991, and 1992 in the 

Arctic aboard the USCG icebreaker Polar Star (Grantz and others, 2004). 

Seismic reflection and refraction data were acquired in the Arctic from the Healy in 2005 (cruise 

HLY0503; Coakley and others, 2005) and 2006 (cruise HLY0602). These surveys were funded by the 

National Science Foundation, and were not associated with or funded through the U.S. Extended 

Continental Shelf Task Force. Further details are available at Coakley and others (2005) and posted at 

the following URLs: 

http://icefloe.net/healy-2005-cruise-reports

http://icefloe.net/healy-2006-cruise-reports

In 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008, the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean 

Mapping and the NOAA Joint Hydrographic Center conducted a series of bathymetric surveys with the 

Healy funded by the U.S. ECS program (Mayer, 2003, 2004; Mayer and Armstrong, 2007, 2008). 

In 2007, the GSC and the Canadian Hydrographic Service conducted geophysical and 

bathymetric surveys aboard the Louis in the Arctic in single-vessel mode. As of March, 2013, the data 

from this survey are proprietary.

The joint U.S.-Canadian Arctic program was initiated in 2008 (Hutchinson and others, 2009; 

Jackson and DesRoches, 2010; Childs and others, 2012) and continued in 2009 (Mayer and Armstrong, 

2009; Mosher and others, 2009). After the 2010 expedition reported here, a fourth and final joint survey 

was conducted in 2011 (Mayer and Armstrong, 2011; Mosher, 2012). 
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Scientific Party

Members of the 2010 HLY1002 scientific party are listed in table 1 with each individual’s 

institutional association and position on the cruise. 

Table 1. HLY1002 scientific party. 

HLY1002 science party

Name Institution Position

Brian D. Edwards USGS Chief Scientist

Kwasi Addae MRAG Protected Species Observer

Sarah Ashworth MRAG Protected Species Observer

Tom Bolmer WHOI/LDEO/ NSF Data Specialist

Michel Bourdeau Captain, Canadian Coast Guard Canadian command liaison

Dale Chayes LDEO/NSF Science Systems

Jonathan Childs USGS USGS liaison (aboard Louis)

Erin Clark Canadian Ice Service - Environment Canada Ice Services Specialist

Pablo Clemente-Colon NIC/NOAA Scientist

Pete dal Ferro USGS Engineering Technician

William Danforth USGS Scientist

Christopher Dufore USGS Scientist

Helen Gibbons USGS Scientist

Donny Graham ESU Internet Technician

Ralph Kaleak BASC Native Community Liaison

Sherwood Liu USF Scientist

Joshua Miller NIC/USCG Ice Analyst/Buoy Technician

Thomas O'Brien USGS Scientist

Caryn Panowicz NIC Ice analyst (aboard Louis)

Mark Patsavas USF Scientist

Justin Pudenz MRAG Protected Species Observer

Steve Roberts NCAR/LDEO/ NSF Computer engineer

William Schmoker PolarTREC Arctic Research Consortium Teacher outreach

Caroline Singler NOAA/Teacher- at-Sea Teacher outreach

Andrew Stevenson USGS Scientist

David Street Canadian Hydrographic Service Hydrogropher

Peter Triezenberg USGS Scientist

Jenny White USGS Engineering Technician

Acronym Institution

BASC Barrow Arctic Science Consortium

ESU Electronic Systems Support Unit Seattle

LDEO Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

MRAG MRAG Americas

NCAR NOAA National Center for Atmospheric Research

NIC NOAA National Ice Center

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

NSF National Science Foundation

USCG U.S. Coast Guard

USF University of South Florida

USGS U.S. Geological Survey

WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Underway Geophysical Data Acquisition and Processing

Complete details of all geophysical, oceanographic, and meteorologic sensors aboard the Healy

are presented in appendix C, the onboard data synopsis is by technical staff members Dale Chayes, 

Steve Roberts, and Tom Bolmer. 

During the cruise, data acquisition was synchronized to Greenwich Mean Time (equivalent to 

Coordinated Universal Time [UTC]). During two-ship operations, both vessels synchronized their 

clocks to UTC minus 7 hours (Pacific Daylight Time). Prior to the rendezvous with the Louis and 

following the final separation from the Louis, the Healy’s ship clocks were set to UTC minus 8 hours 

(Alaska Daylight Time).

The Healy is equipped with a Kongsberg EM122 echosounder and a Knudsen 320 B/R bottom 

sounder, both hull mounted. Two Bell BGM-3 gravimeters were installed for the cruise in the vessel’s 

IC Gyro compartment. The quality of these datasets varied widely, depending on ice conditions and ship 

operations. 

Data acquisition was monitored continuously throughout the cruise by scientific and technical 

watchstanders. The scientific watchstanders worked 8-hour watches (00:00–08:00, 08:00–16:00, and 

16:00–24:00, local ship time) and were responsible for monitoring all underway equipment. During 

each watch, the watchstanders would adjust acquisition parameters for the Kongsberg and Knudsen 

systems, ensure that data files were being updated, note anomalies or changes in operations in the e-log, 

and inform the ship technical staff when an instrument malfunctioned. 

Although minor malfunctions occasionally interrupted data acquisition, these data gaps typically 

occurred for no more than a few minutes. No major instrument failures of the multibeam or subbottom 

profilers occurred during the cruise. 

Multibeam Swath Bathymetry

Acquisition

Multibeam echosounder data were collected onboard the Healy using a Kongsberg EM122 

echosounder that is permanently installed on the hull. Data were acquired on a PC workstation running 

the SIS software acquisition package supplied by Kongsberg. Each sensor offset, such as the location of 

the navigation antennas and the actual location of the motion reference unit, were measured from a 

common reference point. These values were entered to the data acquisition system prior to survey 

operations, and ensured that the sensor data streams were properly applied to the multibeam data during 

acquisition. Raw data were saved to disk in Kongsberg’s “raw.all” format (Kongsberg, 2010).

Primary navigation and motion data (heave, pitch, roll, heading) were measured with an 

Applanix POS/MV-320 system, and these data were integrated with the multibeam data acquisition, 

ensuring that the ship’s motion was compensated for and applied to the data in real time. Navigational 

data from the POS/MV-320 were incorporated in the multibeam data acquisition as well, and stored in 

the raw data files. Sound velocity at the keel (for the beamformer) was calculated from seawater 

temperature and conductivity as measured by an installed SeaBird SBE-45 Thermosalinograph. To 

ensure proper beam ray tracing through the water column during data acquisition, sound-velocity 

profiles were constructed from two sources: (1) data acquired by profiling systems deployed during the 

cruise, and (2) historical data. The deployed systems included expendable bathythermograph (XBT), 

conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD), and expendable conductivity-temperature-depth (XCTD) 

profiling systems; historical data were obtained from the Levitus database (see 

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LEVITUS94/.dataset_documentation.html/). Data were
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corrected for variations of sound velocity in the water column and for the draft of the multibeam 

transmit-receive arrays in real time by the sonar data-acquisition program, and were then saved to the 

raw data files.

Processing

The raw data files were brought into the CARIS HIPS and SIPS 7.0 software (see 

http://www.caris.com/products/hips-sips/ ) using the CARIS conversion wizard, which converts all 

data packets in the raw Kongsberg multibeam files to the internal CARIS format. Before the conversion 

was run, a vessel file named Healy2010_EM122.hvf was created with roll, pitch, heave, gyro, 

navigation and swath 1 activated within the file. This file is necessary for two reasons: (1) all converted 

files are stored in a named hierarchy that includes the vessel file name, and (2) the file identifies to 

CARIS the sensors that are to be parsed from the raw input file for visual inspection after conversion. 

As mentioned in section, “Acquisition,” the SIS data acquisition program applied the heave, pitch, and 

roll data during acquisition; therefore, during the data conversion, the values for heave, pitch, roll, 

heading, and navigation were carried over into the converted CARIS files but not applied by the 

conversion process. 

The converted data were stored on disk in a project folder (HealyAugust2010) that contains a 

subfolder named after the vessel file (Healy2010_EM122). That subfolder was further subdivided into 

Julian days, with each Julian-day folder containing all the line files for that day. For example, the Healy

1002 CARIS database has this structure: HealyAugust2010/Healy2010_EM122/2010-219/line files.

The raw data were stored in filenames of the form LLLL_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_Healy.all, 

where LLLL is the line number, YYYYMMDD is the calendar date and HHMMSS is the time in UTC. 

The raw data were then transferred from the data server and converted to CARIS-readable format. Each 

30-minute interval of the Julian day was saved with a unique file_id in the corresponding project and 

vessel folders.

The Universal North Polar Stereographic Projection system was used for the project map 

projection. A central meridian of -160°, latitude of true-scale 75°N., and the WGS84 ellipsoid were 

selected for the projection parameters to correspond with parameters used by other projects in the Arctic 

Law of the Sea program. The file mapdef.dat, was replaced with a file that resides in a HIPS/System 

directory to ensure that the Universal North Polar Stereographic Projection would plot correctly. 

Swath editing first was performed manually to each line, and obviously erroneous soundings 

were removed from the data files. Auxiliary-sensor-data were not cleaned during processing because 

those corrections were applied during acquisition. Sound-velocity corrections were not applied during 

processing because these corrections were applied during the data-acquisition stage as well. Because 

tide loading is a mandatory step in the CARIS processing workflow, a file zerotide.tid was created for 

this survey with a zero tide value for the entire cruise, as no tidal data were available for the Arctic. 

Navigation and tide corrections were applied to each observed and edited sounding as the last step in the 

processing workflow. 

A CARIS BASE surface (grid) then was generated as a first view to visually inspect the data 

quality and to further remove bad soundings if needed. A horizontal resolution of 100 m per grid node 

was used when creating the grid. 

Each grid was examined (using the swath editor, if necessary) to identify and remove erroneous 

soundings that may have been missed on the first editing pass. Once these soundings were removed 

from the data files, the grid was recomputed to reflect the editing. Data gaps (“holes”) in the grid were 

then filled by a mean-value interpolation using the average of neighboring pixels. 
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The final step in the processing work flow was to convert the grid into Fledermaus dtm/geo files 

for three-dimensional presentation of the collected data.

CTD/XBT

XBT casts were conducted at regular intervals throughout the cruise to establish sound-velocity 

profiles required to correct the multibeam bathymetry. Additionally, CTD casts, during which water 

samples also were collected, were made as time and operational schedules permitted. The CTD and 

XBT data acquisition is detailed in tables A.2 and A.3 of appendix B. 

CHIRP Subbottom Profiler

Acquisition

The Knudsen BR-320 bottom sounder and subbottom profiler functioned well in the ice, 

maintaining a lock on the bottom even under heavy ice conditions. The primary effect of heavy ice was 

to introduce gaps in the profile data. 

In addition to creating high-resolution subbottom reflection profiles using a frequencymodulated (“chirp”) source signal, the Knudsen system tracks the bottom return, and generates a digital 

single-beam depth record. Unlike the Kongsberg system, however, which uses a dynamic soundvelocity-profile model to transform travel time to true depth, the Knudsen system uses a constantvelocity factor of 1,500 m/s. Therefore, digital depths from the Knudsen differ from and are less 

accurate than the Kongsberg centerbeam depths. The Healy also was equipped with an ODEC Bathy2000 fathometer, which was not used during HLY1002. 

Processing

See http://sioseis.ucsd.edu/notes.html for a discussion of Knudsen CHIRP systems and signal 

processing implemented on the Healy. 

Sea Gravimeter Data

Two Bell BGR-3 gravimeters (BGM-221 and BGM-222) were installed on the Healy for the 

entire 2010 survey. Details of the installation and operation of these instruments are presented in 

appendix D of Mayer and Armstrong (2008).

The two gravimeters operated continuously during the period from the Healy’s initial departure 

from Seattle, Washington, on May 16, 2010, until her return on October 12, 2010. Drift measurements 

for the two instruments were estimated over approximately 280 days, during which time the BGM-221 

drifted imperceptibly (0.12 milligal) and the BGM-222 drifted slightly more (12.3 milligal).

The gravity field crossing errors in milligals, compared with those on other Healy cruises for the 

two gravimeters, are listed in table 2. 
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Table 2. Mis-ties (in milligals) at line crossings for two gravity meters (BGM-221, BGM-222) during four Healy

Arctic cruises, 2008 to 2011. 

HLY-08-221 HLY-09-221 HLY-10-221 HLY-11-221 HLY-08-222 HLY-09-222 HLY-10-222 HLY-11-222

HLY-08-221

0.07 0.07 0.12 0.16 0.19 -0.03 0.34 0.17

HLY-09-221

0.08 0.08 -0.08 -0.04 0.05 -0.17 0.18 0.02

HLY-10-221 -0.12 0.08 0.01 0.01 -0.03 -0.21 0.13 -0.02

HLY-11-221 -0.16 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.12 -0.06 0.28 0.11

HLY-08-222 -0.19 -0.05 0.03 -0.12 0.05 0.05 0.29 0.07

HLY-09-222

0.03 0.17 0.21 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.46 0.25

HLY-10-222 -0.34 -0.18 -0.13 -0.28 -0.29 -0.46 0.11 0.11

HLY-11-222 -0.17 -0.02 0.02 -0.11 -0.07 -0.25 0.04 0.04

Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP)

Both of the hull-mounted ADCPs (75 kilohertz and 150 kilohertz) operated continuously 

throughout the cruise. No interests in the ADCP measurements have been identified, on or off the ship, 

and, accordingly, these data were subjected to no further examination, processing, or quality control. 

The data are freely available for download and analysis by contacting the authors.

Geological Sampling

Throughout the 2010 cruise, the Healy occasionally operated alone— principally when the Louis

was otherwise engaged in medevac transits or repairs. At these times, gravity and piston coring 

operations were conducted. As shown in figure 3 and detailed in table 3, coring occurred at five 

locations; the piston core system is shown in figure 5. One significant finding from these cores occurred 

at site 1P-1, where gas hydrate was recovered at a subbottom depth of 5.7 m. This is the first report of a 

methane hydrate sample recovered from the Arctic Basin-Ocean (Edwards and others, 2011). 
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Figure 5. Photograph showing piston coring system on aft deck of Healy. 

The original coring target for site 1P-1 was a seafloor high on the continental slope northeast of 

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, that had been identified from USGS multichannel seismic-reflection data acquired 

in 1977 (Grantz and others, 1982). Multibeam data collected during HLY1002, however, revealed a 

conical mound in the area of the original target (fig. 6), and the final coring site was shifted to the flank 

of that mound (water depth 2,538 m). The gas hydrate had a nodular and vein-filling morphology (fig. 

7). Although the hydrate was not preserved, residual gas recovered from the core liner contained more 

than 95 percent methane by volume when corrected for atmospheric contamination (Hart and others, 

2011). Other analyses and descriptions of these cores were presented by Edwards and others (2011) and 

Wan and others (2011). 
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Figure 6. Multibeam bathymetric model showing hydrate mound with core sites indicated by red dots.

Figure 7. Photograph showing gas hydrate recovery in core catcher of piston core 1P-1.
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Table 3. Details of coring locations, recovery, and subsamples taken.

SESAR_ISGN Sample ID Latitude N. Longitude

W. 

Water Depth 

(m)

Equipment Day Time

(UTC) 

Recovery 

(cm) 

Subsamples

ECS003000 1GB-1 71.31767° 143.99828° 2530 GB 8/11/2010 21:30 240 CC, MFx

ECS003001 1P-1 71.31747° 143.99970° 2538 P 8/12/2010 3:15 571 CA,CC,MFx, MFs

ECS003002 1TC-1 71.31747° 143.99970° 2538 TC 8/12/2010 3:15 83 CC,CA,MFx

ECS003003 2P-1 70.95910° 144.05238° 1157 P 8/12/2010 11:19 302 CC,CA,MFx

ECS003004 2TC-1 70.95910° 144.05238° 1157 TC 8/12/2010 11:19 79 CC,CA,MFx

ECS003005 3P-1 81.57966° 134.47790° 3070 P 8/25/2010 10:46 546 CC,CA(2),MFx, Tx

ECS003006 3TC-1 81.57966° 134.47790° 3070 TC 8/25/2010 10:46 NR CA(2)

ECS003007 4P-1 75.58413° 140.09293° 3700 P 8/31/2010 12:54 337 CA,MFx

ECS003008 4TC-1 75.58413° 140.09293° 3700 TC 8/31/2010 12:54 NR CA

ECS003009 5P-1 76.54377° 128.62745° 2081 P 9/2/2010 18:36 496 WSs,MFx,CA

ECS003010 5TC-1 76.54377° 128.62745° 2081 TC 9/2/2010 18:36 106 MFx,CA

Equipment

GB Gravity Core (Big) 2,400 lb weightstand

P Piston core (2,400 lb weightstand)

TC Trigger core (part of piston core system)

Subsamples

CA Core Catcher

CC Core Cutter

MFs microfauna surface sample

MFx scrape of external pipe for microfauna

Tx Texture sample

WSs scrapings from weightstand head

NR No recovery in main liner

SESAR_ISGN identifiers are assigned through the System for Earth SAmple Registration (SESAR): http://www.geosamples.org/ 
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Ship Operations

A summary chronology of joint mission activities is presented in table 4.

Table 4. Chronology of ship operations during conduct of HLY1002 and LSSL2012. [In column 1: 1, Healy was operating as a single vessel; 2, joint operations with Healy leading; 3, joint operations with Louis leading. DOY, Day of Year; EEZ, 

Exclusive Economic Zone; SOL, start of line; EOL, end of line; WP, way point; CTD, conductivity-temperature-depth; SVP, sound-velocity profile.]

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DOY

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DOY

UTC 

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UTC 

Delta

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N.

Longitude

W.

1 M 2-Aug 214 15:00 214 23:00 -8 Healy Healy departs Dutch Harbor

1 W 4-Aug 216 16:00 216 21:00 -5 Louis Louis crew exchange complete, Kugluktuk

1 Tu 5-Aug 217 217 -5 Louis Louis at anchor, Kugluktuk

1 F 6-Aug 218 12:00 218 17:00 -5 Louis Louis underway

1 F 6-Aug 218 23:00 219 5:00 -6 Louis Retard clocks one hour

1 Sa 7-Aug 219 16:23 220 0:23 -8 Healy

Cross -141W; commence hydrographic survey of U.S.-Canada 

zone of mutual interest 70.55317° 141.00000°

1 Su 8-Aug 220 13:13 220 20:13 -7 Louis SOL 1 deploy seismic gear open-water survey Canadian EEZ 71.18500° 135.71333°

1 Su 8-Aug 220 18:00 221 1:00 -7 Healy Advance clocks one hour

1 Su 8-Aug 220 23:00 221 6:00 -7 Louis Retard clocks one hour

1 Tu

10-

Aug 222 8:35 222 15:35 -7 Louis EOL 5 recover seismic gear open-water survey Canadian EEZ 71.31417° 136.99250°

1 Tu

10-

Aug 222 17:30 223 0:30 -7 both

Rendezvous; Capt. Meeting (2 hours); transfer personnel; 

proceed in convoy toward U.S. EEZ

1 W

10-

Aug 222 22:54 223 5:54 -7 Healy

Cross -141W; finish hydrographic survey of U.S.-Canada zone of 

mutual interest; continue convoy 70.89583° 141.00000°
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Longitude

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1 W

11-

Aug 223 6:15 223 13:15 -7 Louis

Accident in Louis engine room necessitates transit to 

Tuktoyuktuk and medevac by helicopter

1 W

11-

Aug 223 6:30 223 13:30 -7 Healy Proceeds alone within U.S. EEZ for sampling program

1 W

11-

Aug 223 13:30 223 20:30 -7 Healy U.S. Incidental Harassment Authorization received by email

1 W

11-

Aug 223 14:30 223 21:30 -7 Healy 1GB-1 gravity core on bottom (depth =2,530 m) 71.31750° 143.99833°

1 W

11-

Aug 223 15:00 223 22:00 -7 Louis

Marine Scientific Research Authorization received from U.S. 

Dept. of State for Louis to conduct science operations in U.S. 

EEZ

1 W

11-

Aug 223 19:18 224 2:18 -7 Healy

1P-1 piston core and 1TC-1 trigger core on bottom (depth = 

2,538 m) 71.31750° 143.99967°

1 Th

12-

Aug 224 4:20 224 11:20 -7 Healy

2P-1 piston core and 2TC-1 trigger core on bottom (depth = 

1,157 m) 70.95917° 144.05233°

1 Th

12-

Aug 224 16:07 224 23:07 -7 Louis SOL 6 seismic in U.S. EEZ 71.65667° 148.18650°

2 F

13-

Aug 225 7:20 225 14:20 -7 Healy Healy joins Louis for SOL 7 72.26483° 145.40767°

1 Su

15-

Aug 227 10:30 227 17:30 -7 Healy

Healy departs Louis in light ice to run to Barrow for crew and 

parts; continuing along Line 7 for multibeam and CHIRP

1 M

16-

Aug 228 14:20 228 21:20 -7 Healy

Supplies arrive Healy from Barrow; Dean Kavanaugh aboard 

Healy; Healy departs Barrow to resume escort 72.95650° 148.41383°

2 Tu

17-

Aug 229 11:30 229 18:30 -7 Healy Healy joins Louis at ice edge along Line 11 73.40883° 150.87883°
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2 Tu

17-

Aug 229 13:45 229 20:45 -7 Healy

Dean Kavanaugh and fuel filters depart Healy via helicopter en

route to Louis

2 Tu

17-

Aug 229 22:50 230 5:50 -7 Louis Louis exits U.S. EEZ 74.18333° 150.39333°

2 F

20-

Aug 232 8:00 232 15:00 -7 Louis EOL 14, seismic gear recovered for transit 76.58917° 146.41700°

1 F

20-

Aug 232 9:00 232 16:00 -7 both Both ships all stop for CTD/SVP (3 hrs)

3 F

20-

Aug 232 11:45 232 18:45 -7 Louis Commence transit; Louis in lead

2 Sa

21-

Aug 233 4:42 233 11:42 -7 Louis SOL 15, seismic gear deployed 78.11383° 153.27267°

2 Su

22-

Aug 234 11:00 234 18:00 -7 Louis EOL 16, seismic gear recovered for transit 78.97467° 145.28783°

3 M

23-

Aug 235 15:00 235 22:00 -7 Louis Commence transit; Louis in lead

1 M

23-

Aug 235 21:30 236 4:30 -7 Louis Louis all stop to replace port shaft bearing

1 M

23-

Aug 235 22:50 236 5:50 -7 Healy

Healy departs escort with Louis and continues alone for seamount 

survey

1 W

25-

Aug 237 0:40 237 7:40 -7 Louis Louis underway to rendezvous Healy (down 27 hours)

1 W

25-

Aug 237 10:46 237 17:46 -7 Healy

3P-1 piston core and 3TC-1 trigger core on bottom (depth = 

3,070 m) 81.57133° 134.47783°

1 Th

26-

Aug 238 3:00 238 10:00 -7 both Rendezvous WP28 for W-E line 82.53000° 139.17833°

2 Th

26-

Aug 238 4:30 238 11:40 -7 Louis SOL 17, Healy in lead 82.54450° 138.93050°

1 F

27-

Aug 239 8:00 239 15:30 -7 both Louis retrieve seismic gear; all stop for CTD/SVP (5 hours) 81.78500° 128.30667°

1 F

27-

Aug 239 15:00 239 22:00 -7 Louis Louis retrieve seismic gear and repair; all stop (5 hours)

3 F 27- 239 20:00 240 3:30 -7 both Underway for bathymetric program, Louis in lead
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Aug

3 Sa

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Aug 240 6:11 240 13:11 -7 Healy Healy enters Canadian EEZ for MB bathymetry 81.38517° 122.99250°

3 Sa

28-

Aug 240 18:00 241 1:00 -7 both

WP 29 in Canadian EEZ; health issue reported for steward 

aboard Louis - diverting S for medevac; Louis in lead with Healy

following 80.98167° 119.07333°

1 Su

29-

Aug 241 241 -7 both Continue transit, vessels trade lead

1 M

30-

Aug 242 0:47 242 7:47 -7 Healy Healy departs Canadian EEZ 79.51883° 131.64900°

1 M

30-

Aug 242 242 -7 both Continue transit, vessels trade lead

1 M

30-

Aug 242 9:45 242 16:45 -7 both Vessels prepare to separate

1 M

30-

Aug 242 9:45 242 16:45 -7 Healy

Injury reported on Healy - crew member will require medical 

evacuation; vessels continue to convoy for U.S./Canada mainland

1 M

30-

Aug 242 11:15 242 18:15 -7 Healy

Injured Healy crew member transferred by launch to Louis for 

evacuation; Healy diverts for coring ops in E. Beaufort

1 M

30-

Aug 242 15:20 242 22:20 -7 Healy Skirts Canadian EEZ; maximum incursion < 1 nmi

1 M

30-

Aug 242 18:26 243 1:26 -7 Healy Skirts Canadian EEZ; maximum incursion < 1 nmi

1 Tu

31-

Aug 243 11:05 243 18:05 -7 Healy

4P-1 piston core and 4TC-1 trigger core on bottom (depth = 

3,700 m) 75.58417° 140.09283°

1 Tu

31-

Aug 243 18:30 244 1:30 -7 Louis

Medical evacuation of sick and injured crew members to 

Tuktoyuktuk by helicopter 70.25000° 133.75000°

1 Tu

31-

Aug 243 22:23 244 5:23 -7 Healy Healy enters Canadian EEZ for multibeam and sampling 74.72867° 137.41100°

1 W 1-Sep 244 1:00 244 8:00 -7 Louis Underway from Tuktoyuktuk to rejoin Healy
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1 W 1-Sep 244 21:00 245 4:00 -7 Louis Louis enters heavy ice on return transit

1 Th 2-Sep 245 11:36 245 18:36 -7 Healy

5P-1 piston core and 5TC-1 trigger core on bottom (depth = 2081 

m) 76.54383° 128.62750°

1 Th 2-Sep 245 18:15 246 1:15 -7 both Vessels rendezvous; Dept. of Homeland Security flyover 76.53517° 128.72750°

2 Th 2-Sep 245 19:00 246 2:00 -7 both Deploy seismic gear, Healy in lead

1 Sa 4-Sep 247 12:00 247 19:00 -7 Healy Healy breaks off joint program to head to Barrow

1 Sa 4-Sep 247 13:19 247 20:19 -7 Healy Healy departs Canadian EEZ 75.77900° 136.76417°

1 Sa 4-Sep 247 17:00 248 1:00 -8 Healy Change clocks to Alaskan daylight time zone

1 Mo 6-Sep 249 4:00 249 12:00 -8 Healy Arrive Barrow

1 W

14-

Sep 257 16:00 257 21:00 -5 Louis Arrive Kugluktuk for disembarkation
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Data and Metadata

Extensive information regarding cruise HLY1002 (USGS Field Activity ID H-03-10-AR), 

including links to reports, articles, and blogs, is available at

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/h/h310ar/html/h-3-10-ar.meta.html

All raw data from the cruise are archived at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) 

through the Rolling Deck to Repository initiative. Complete file manifests and other metadata are 

available at:

http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/HLY1002

http://get.rvdata.us/services/cruise/HLY1002.xml

Raw and processed multibeam data and metadata, as well as raw CHIRP subbottom data in 

SEG-Y format are posted on the NGDC’s ECS data page at http://ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ecs/cruises.html. 

These data are also cross-posted at the Law of the Sea project’s Web site at the Center for Coastal and 

Ocean Mapping of the University of New Hampshire’s Law of the Sea repository at 

http://ccom.unh.edu/theme/law-sea/arctic-ocean. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Under terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between the USGS

and the GSC, the swath-bathymetry and subbottom profile data acquired during cruise HLY1002 within 

the Canadian 200-nmi-wide Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) are proprietary, and public release is not 

presently authorized. The trackline segments that fall within the Canadian EEZ are listed in table 5. 

Table 5. Time periods during which the Healy bathymetry and CHIRP subbottom data are embargoed until further 

notice. 

Day Date

(UTC)

Julian 

day

UTC (Hour:

Minute) 

Comment Latitude N. Longitude W.

Sa 28-Aug 240 13:11 Healy enters Canadian EEZ

for multibeam bathymetry.

81.38517° 122.99250°

M 30-Aug 242 7:47 Healy leaves Canadian EEZ. 79.51883° 131.64900°

Tu 31-Aug 244 5:23 Healy enters Canadian EEZ

for multibeam bathymetry and 

sampling.

74.72867° 137.41100°

Sa 4-Sep 247 20:19 Healy leaves Canadian EEZ. 75.77900° 136.76417°
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Public Outreach

Three members of the scientific party performed outreach duties, principally by writing 

expedition logs for different websites. Helen Gibbons (USGS) wrote for the ECS Project Web site 

(http://continentalshelf.gov/missions/10arctic/). Additional logs were written by two teachers on the 

scientific crew. William Schmoker, an Earth Science teacher at Centennial Middle School in Boulder, 

Colorado, joined the expedition through PolarTREC (http://www.polartrec.com/), a program that links 

teachers with researchers for hands-on field research in polar regions. Caroline Singler, an Earth Science 

and Aquatic Biology teacher at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 

joined the expedition through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Teacher 

at Sea program (http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/), which places teacher-participants on research cruises 

run by NOAA and its partner agencies, such as the USGS.

Caroline Singler’s log entries are available at http://csinglertas.blogspot.com/. In addition to 

teaching high school classes, Caroline coaches a National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) team, whose 

members followed her logs while she was at sea. Caroline’s Earth Science class began near the end of 

the cruise, on August 31, 2010, allowing her to send a welcome from the Arctic to her new students. She 

used her log entries and data from the cruise in school exercises and NOSB coaching during the school 

year.

Bill Schmoker’s log entries are posted at http://www.polartrec.com/member/bill-schmoker. 

Before the cruise, Bill was interviewed by a radio station and two newspapers in the Boulder area, 

alerting the community to the upcoming expedition and inviting them to follow his logs. Bill’s Earth 

Science class began on August 18, 2010, giving the students about 21⁄2 weeks to follow his log in nearreal time from the Arctic. Bill also coordinated an event called PolarConnect: With the help of 

PolarTREC, his assistant principal, and the Coast Guard, he called Centennial Middle School from the 

Healy on August 31, 2010, spoke to two groups of about 300 students each, and engaged the students in 

question-and-answer sessions about the Arctic and his experiences there. 

In addition to posting logs, the teachers assisted with watchstanding in the geophysics lab, 

processing sediment cores for storage, and collecting water subsamples for analysis aboard the Healy

and at onshore labs. Their participation in the expedition provided practical help to the researchers 

onboard and spread information about the cruise and the ECS Project to students, teachers, parents, and 

the public in their communities.

Acknowledgments

We thank the entire crew of the USCG Cutter Healy, in particular Commanding Officer Captain 

William (Bill) J. Rall, Operations Officer Lieutenant Commander Eric St. Pierre, and Executive Officer 

Commander John Reeves. We are grateful for the planning and logistical support provided by David 

Forcucci, USCG liaison in Seattle.

We appreciate the dedication and expertise provided by the Healy technical-support team of 

Dale Chayes, Steve Roberts, and Tom Bolmer, who compiled the cruise data synopsis in appendix B. 

Bernie Coakley (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) processed the gravity data and provided the crossover 

analysis listed in table 2. 

Florence Wong and Ray Sliter, USGS, reviewed the report.

This program was conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Task 

Force (http://www.continentalshelf.gov/). 
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Appendices

Appendixes can be accessed and downloaded at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1067.

Appendix A. Cruise-level Metadata

Appendix B. Data Synopsis (Chayes, Bolmer and Roberts)

Appendix C. Digital Data Formats

Appendix D. Geophysical Watchstander E-logs

Appendix E. Coring Operations Deck Logs

Appendix F. Water Sampling and Ocean Acidification Measurements 

Appendix G . Protected Species Observer Report

Appendix H. Polar Bear Interaction Plan