Coast Guard Cutter Healy conducts their Arctic West Summer 2018 science mission with the northern lights visible above the ship while in the Arctic Ocean, Nov. 12, 2018. US Coast Guard Photo
A Coast Guard icebreaker is cutting short a research mission to the Arctic after suffering a fire while underway on Aug. 18, the Coast Guard announced on Tuesday.
Icebreaker USCGC Healy (WABG-20) is now steaming to Washington state to repair damage to the main propulsion system and all Coast Guard Arctic...
Scientific operations have resumed on University of Alaska Fairbanks’ (UAF) research vessel Sikuliaq after special permission was granted for a small team of ..
The following is the Feb. 5, 2020 Government Accountability Office testimony before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security on the Coast Guard icebreaker programs.
From the report
What GAO Found
ln fiscal year 2012, the Coast Guard-the primary federal maritime agency in the Arctic-assessed its capability to perform its missions in the region and identified a number of capability gaps. These gaps, which still exist today, include communications,...
https://news.usni.org/2020/02/13/gao-testimony-on-coast-guard-icebreaker-programs
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) off McMurdo Sound near McMurdo Station, a United States Antarctic research center in 2018. US Air Force Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the next several years, the Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker will lead the annual Antarctic resupply mission as the service develops its new class of icebreaker.
Called the McMurdo Breakout, the Coast Guard’s heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), starts the journey to Antarctica every year at the end of October or early...
https://news.usni.org/2019/09/30/mcmurdo-station-expansion-relies-on-coast-guard-heavy-icebreaker
US Heavy Ice Breaker Polar Star (WAGB-10). US Coast Guard Photo
The U.S. Coast Guard’s polar icebreaking fleet will remain based in Seattle after delivery of its new class of heavy icebreakers.
The first of a planned fleet of three heavy icebreakers, called Polar Security Cutters, is expected to deliver in 2023. The Coast Guard’s only working heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), is based in Seattle. The Coast Guard also has one medium icebreaker, USCGC Healy (WAGB-20).
“I am pleased to...
https://news.usni.org/2019/06/17/seattle-to-be-coast-guard-heavy-icebreaker-fleet-homeport
Construction officially began yesterday in Houma, La., on the 199′ research vessel Resolution, a new research ship being built at Gulf Island Shipyards and bound for the University of Rhode Island. The Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) will support such scientific studies as the tracking of ocean currents, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate-induced changes in the oceans, fish migration, seafloor surveys, conservation of marine mammals and the food-web dynamics in the deep ocean.
RCRVs...
According to an article published by The Register-Guard, Oregon State University has received $108.12 million from the National Science Foundation to manage the construction of a third research ship.
OSU to spearhead the projectIn 2013, the science foundation selected OSU to lead the initial design for as many as three new ships. The National Science Board authorized up to $365 million for the project. OSU selected Gulf Island Shipyards of Houma, La., to construct the first vessel, which OSU...
http://mfame.guru/osu-to-lead-construction-of-third-research-ship/
Construction of a new Oregon State University-bound research ship that will advance the science of coastal environments, and support research on topics such as ocean acidification, hypoxia, and sea level rise, officially began yesterday in Louisiana.
During the summer of 2017, the NSF awarded OSU a grant of $121.88 million to launch the construction of the first vessel, representing the largest grant in the university’s history. This past summer, the grant was supplemented with an additional $88...