20 January 2010: "Healy" received the Coast Guard Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation award for meritorious service from 6 August to 16 September 2009, while conducting the Joint U.S.–Canada United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Extended Continental Shelf Mapping Expedition. In collaboration with , "Healy" pushed further north than planned and avoided $2.4 million in future expedition mapping costs. "Healy" also acquired over of valuable geological samples by conducting dredging operations at depths of up to . The rare samples were essential in establishing the origin of the targeted extended continental shelf.