At the polar station

Two months ago, the photographer Lucas Jackson was invited to the Applied Physics Laboratory - a temporary camp of plywood, laid directly on the arctic ice. Far to the north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the camp sheltered at some of British, Canadian and American naval forces, as well as employees of the Applied Physics Laboratory. Jackson spent two days in the camp, watching a variety of tests under the water under the ice and using various communication and audio technology. Photographer protect your camera from the cold by using special chemicals ...
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1. The moon over the Arctic Circle near the Applied Physics Laboratory in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.





2. equipment for the trip to the Arctic in the living room table photographer Lucas Jackson in New York.



3. The pilot is a route to the Applied Physics Laboratory using a GPS-navigator.



4. Road and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System near the mountain in northern Alaska.



5. Steam over sea water and cracks in the ice near the laboratory in Prudhoe Bay.



6. Buildings in the Applied Physics Laboratory in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska



7. Sunset over Arctic ice near the Applied Physics Laboratory



8 helicopter with a mobile heating plant for the laboratory.



9. A lone figure of a man among snowmobile plywood huts and tents on the territory of the lab



10. Applied Physics Laboratory Specialist Hector Castillo



11. Man with ice auger towards heating plant



12. Patterns left by the wind on the surface of the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay



13. A detailed picture of ice crystals in the laboratory.



14. Sunset over the North Pole



15. Helicopter over the North Pole on the way to the Applied Physics Laboratory during the exercise March 18th. Using digital tactical messaging system "Siren" and simple underwater telephones, underwater laboratory representatives camp were able to help the submarine "New Hampshire" to find a relatively ice-free spot to rise to the surface and evacuate a sailor with appendicitis



16. written by a man at sunset on the territory of the lab - Romance, Mlyn!



17. Employees of the laboratory in anticipation of dinner in a tent in the camp



18. Cables sonar equipment into the hole made in the Arctic ice camp north of Prudhoe Bay. New digital tactical messaging system "Siren" of the company «Raytheon Co» can change the way of communication between the commanders of submarines worldwide, allowing them to warn each other of the enemy ships on the surface or a new operation, not rising at the same time to periscope level, or 18 meters where it can detect



19. Working with the radio confirm his whereabouts after the delivery of provisions to the remote heating plant



20. The helicopter delivered the equipment and provisions to the remote heating plant



21. Graduates of the Research School US Navy Lt. Brandon Schmidt (right) and Lt. George Suh equipment checked by a computer



22. The Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Hale on the Arctic Circle, north of Prudhoe Bay



23. Ice on camera photographer Lucas Jackson.



24. The plane takes off from the ice strip near the station Applied Physics Laboratory



25. The submarine type "Seawolf" "Connecticut" begins to rise, break a few centimeters of ice during exercises



26. A laboratory worker with a shotgun against polar bears near the site of the submarine lifting "Connecticut»



27. Navy Seaman in the brigade support "Connecticut," has just come to the surface



28. A laboratory worker Keith Magness chainsaw cuts through the ice to get to the hatch of the submarine "Connecticut»



29 US sailors have sonar screens in the control room of the submarine "New Hampshire" type "Virginia" during exercises under the ice of the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska



30. The sign on the status of the torpedo tube on the hatch of the submarine "Virginia" during the pilot exercise.



31. The monitor fiber optic periscope in the control room of the submarine "New Hampshire" shows tourists on polar ice.



32. The Delegation of the Congress and the Secretary of the Navy inspected the submarine type "Seawolf" rise to the surface through the ice of the Arctic Ocean.



33. Traces of the wind on the formation of ice in the Arctic Ocean near Prudhoe Bay.



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