Lee Cooper of the University of Maryland is the chief scientist on the first of two science cruises that will take place aboard the USCGC Healy in the Bering Sea in 2009. Dr. Cooper organizes the science mission and coordinates the work of approximately 35 other scientists studying sea ice, walrus distributions, sea floor processes, biological communities, water chemistry, and marine mammal and bird observations. Dr. Cooper works at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. His research specialty is biogeochemistry and he presently studies biological changes in the northern Bering Sea. Dr. Cooper is working with a PolarTREC teacher to share Bering Sea research with the public and K-12 classrooms.