Chris Linder

Chris Linder

Chris is a research associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a professional freelance photographer. Chris works on the Polaris Project to capture the scientific and educational aspects of the field course though still images, audio, and video. For the past seven years he has documented scientific field work in the polar regions and his work is published in books, scientific journals, and museum exhibits around the world.

You can read more about Chris and see some images here.

Journals

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    Student Impact video

    This multimedia video shows just how life-changing the Polaris Project can be.

    • By Chris Linder
    • December 19, 2011
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    Science on Ice

    After five hard years of work, Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions, is now in print. Before I began documenting the Polaris Project, I was the principal investigator of my own National Science Foundation grant called Live from the Poles. Our mission was to educate the public about how polar science is actually done.

    • By Chris Linder
    • November 17, 2011
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    Dallas and Kate in the Denmark Strait

    I just got a nice note from 2010 Polaris student Kate Lewis who was writing from Reykjavik harbor. Kate graduated from WWU and has been working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute as a Summer Student Fellow. Kate wrote that she had just finished one trip to Iceland with Chris Linder and was waiting for [...]

    • By Andy Bunn
    • August 22, 2011

  • 2010 Photos

    After pointless and senseless delay we have updated the photos page with a subset of the 2010 photos by Max and Chris.

    • By Andy Bunn
    • January 27, 2011

  • Documenting science in action

    Thanks Andy for that great introduction. I’m very excited to join the team. I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself and talk about my role on the expedition. I am a science/nature photographer and researcher. I work part-time for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the Department of Physical Oceanography and the [...]

    • By Chris Linder
    • June 23, 2009