View astern as the ship left Lyttelton, New Zealand.

Mountains surrounding Lyttelton's harbor.

The Harbor Pilot that escorted the ship out to sea.

The beautiful albatrosses escorted the ship to the polar front.

Bits of iceberg were seen occasionally throughout the cruise.

Bergs came in all sorts of shapes, like this spire.

Helen Quinby was the microbial ecology lab's principal researcher onboard, and the ship's resident expert on microscopic organisms.

Dawn Castle, U. Del., worked to determine bacterial productivity in cooperation with our lab's bacterial size and abundance work.

This crane was used to raise and lower instrumentation over the side.

One of the devices used on board was this plankton net.

John Marra, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., next to the Trace Metal rosette which was used to collect the large volumes of water required to set up experiments. 

A system of incubators was set up on deck to house experiments.

The ship's labs were packed full of equipment. This small space was used for bacterial slide preparation and microscope work.

A view of the RV Roger Revelle in the Southern Ocean taken from the RV/IB N.B. Palmer on an earlier cruise.