Photos: Antarctica research

21 May 2015

These photos show Iskander Ismailov, a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, on the journey to Antarctica. The international collaboration collected icefishes for their research as the research ship carried them from the southern tip of South America to Antarctica.

Iskander Ismailov, an assistant research professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, fishes with other members of an international research collaboration. The scientists will study the icefishes they collect from the water surround Antarctica.

Iskander Ismailov, an assistant research professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, films from the deck of a research vessel in the Southern Ocean.

A wider view of Iskander Ismailov, an assistant research professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, filming from the deck of a research vessel in the Southern Ocean.

Iskander Ismailov, an assistant research professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, on the deck of a research vessel in the Southern Ocean. Note the ice on the exposed surface of the ship.

Iskander Ismailov, an assistant research professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, setting up the cold research room. This room is kept at a low temperature to keep the environment as close as possible to a natural setting for the icefishes studied by Ismailov and the rest of the team.