Some Unusual Photographs in the Arctic Ocean

Abstract

Streak photographs of marine animals recorded with a shutterless camera and moving film have furnished information about life deep in the Arctic Ocean. This unexpected occurrence illustrates one of the desirable features of photographic instrumentation. The photographs were obtained with a nephelometer used at the Arctic drifting ice station, T-3, during 1966 and 1967. The animal has been identified as the marine amphipod. Parathemisto abyssorum, Boek. EdWArd M. Tborndike •. is senior research associate at 111. Lamon. Geological Ob",rva· tory of Columbia Univenity and a professor of Physics at Queen. College of the City Uni· versity of NV. He has a BS from Wesleyan University •. an MA from Columbia Univer· sity. and jJ PhD from the California Institute of Technology. His Interen hi in the mea· surement of light scatte.,ing and transmiS!ion in the sea, and the determination of bottom current velocity.