170907-N-PO203-020 GREENLAND (Sept. 7, 2017) Ignatius Rigor, left, from the University of Washington, and Lt. Emily Motz, assigned to the National Ice Center, discuss the latest weather data in the high Arctic prior to a buoy deployment mission out of Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Two Air-Deployable Expendable Ice Buoys were deployed from a Royal Danish Air Force C-130 aircraft as part of the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP). IABP is a conglomeration of global participants that maintain a network of drifting buoys in the Arctic Ocean that provide meteorological and oceanographic data for real-time operational requirements and research purposes. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)