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Serving aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds holds a sample of plankton that is submerged in a preservation fluid.

U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds uses a fluorometer aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker to test the water samples for chlorophyll.

Working aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds collects water samples from a conductivity, temperature and depth device to measure the nutrient, chlorophyll and salinity content.

In January 2021, U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds, found herself in an unusual situation for a Coast Guard member: serving as an officer of the deck aboard a NOAA ship.

The U.S. Navy Band plays the Service Medley at the conclusion of the NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker commissioning ceremony

NOAA's newest research ship, Reuben Lasker, concluded its first scientific mission Nov. 9 after nearly four months surveying whale populations along the West Coast.

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker underway in Alaska in September 2014 during the vessel's first scientific mission.
Five NOAA ships are studying marine ecosystems in the Northern Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and Gulf of Alaska.

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker underway.

A remotely operated vehicle is hauled aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker.