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Timothy Eglinton deployed a sediment trap off the New England coast to investigate how carbon is transported from continental margins to the deep ocean.Tom Austin with New York REMUS TIV inspection vehicle.Jim Broda (front) and Jack Cook working on long core animation.
Christmas morning on Atlantis cruise AT15-14.Cape Royds from the sea ice.Aaron Kayes of the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) holds the line and Frank Raspante of Hydroid, Inc., lends a hand to steady the REMUS-6000.
Jeff Sherman and Brian Guest working on the Spray Glider.Some groups travel with a complete portable shelter called a “tomato.”Jian Lin and colleagues examine geological evidence of past earthquakes near the Mediterranean coast of Algeria.Nereus HROV undergoing dock testing.
Close up view of retrieved long core sediment core.Barnacle attached to a floating piece of pumice.Driving slowly back to McMurdo Station in an oversized transport vehicle, everyone was tired.WHOI scientist Richard Camilli shakes hands with pilot Konstantinos
Dune and beach profiling on Nantucket.ALVIN swimmers Patrick Neumann (on sub) and Ken Feldman (in water).An Adélie bends low to check on its eggs.Using five years of data on right whale sightings (red indicates more frequent sightings), researchers have proposed seasonal changes to shipping lanes to reduce ship-whale collisions.Working in open water in Antarctica's Ross Sea, Assistant Scientist Mak Saito deploys a water sampler from the R/V Nathaniel Palmer.
Long Core system being deployed off the R/V Knorr.Postdoctoral Fellow Jed Goldstone (left) teaches Summer Student Fellows Thiago Parente (center) and Katie Barott to sample killifish.Michael Holcomb, Byron Pedler, and Ben Van Mooy recovering experimental plates under the WHOI pier.
Penguins on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.View down the bow of R/V Atlantis.Terry Hammar and Al Gagnon labeling cores recovered with the Long Core.
A mud core sample in the hands of Biology Postdoc Luciano FernandesWHOI engineer Tom Hurst.
Working in lab on Long Core test cruise.Ari Shapiro listens to narwhal vocalizations.Long Core system Konrad Hughen is a paleoclimatologist in the WHOI Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry.
Rosacea, siphonophoreGraduate students Jinbo Wang (left) and Evgeny Logvinov.Dan Fornari and Tracey Gregg inspect a portion of a lava pillar that was generated during a 1991 eruption on the East Pacific Rise.Manatees have round heads, squinty eyes, and bodies up to 13 feet in length.
Knight Fellows visit to WHOI 2007.Woods Hole village, March 31, 2007, Saturday night around 11 p.m.Bryn Warren and Luciano Fernandes process mud samples for Red Tide Cysts in Oceanus wet lab.
The Arctic HaloclinePete Liarikos, Bosun on the Knorr, rises into an Icelandic coast guard helicopter during cruise KN189-04.R/V Knorr science crew arriving back from Long Core sea trials cruise.Ronnie Whims, AB on Oceanus, plays guitar on deck near a Craib corer.Jeff Lord servicing a WHOI ASIMET/Tsunami Buoy for the Chilean Navy
The Knorr at dock in Reykjavik harbor just before starting cruise KN189-04.R/V Cape Hatteras in the Gulf of Maine in 2004 during the 2007 World Series.Gary Austin, assembling soft tether release on the LFASE (Low Frequency Acoustic Seismic Experiment) deployment.
Amanda Uster (left) and Beth Christensen (right) opening a retrieved core on R/V Knorr.Terry Hammar working underneath the 'dog dish' component of the Long Core system.John Kemp leading efforts to deploy 62 moorings for the experiment.DRV Sea Cliff
Clap traps awaiting deployment during Vertigo cruise in 2005.Ocean Observatories Initiative press conference at WHOI.
Ben Allen firing the canon upon the arrival of the R/V Knorr.A global system of ocean circulation—often called the Great Ocean Conveyor.2007 Summer Student Fellows Tess Brandon and Kelsey Winsor deploy a box corer off the stern of R/V Tioga.Researchers traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands to collect seaweed that host algae that cause ciguatera fish poisoning.Icy wake of Oden
Mooring deployment operation, R/V Kilo Moana, Vertigo Hawaii CruiseSummer Student Fellow Tess Brandon and Engineering Assistant Amy Kukulya working with a REMUS at the dock.Sunita Williams pressured styrofoam cup.2007 Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer in lab.Joint Program student Christie Wood and Postdoctoral Investigator Alfredo Aretxabaleta prepare to recover the CTD rosette.
Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), Glover's Reef, Belize.Chief Scientist John Goff (blue t-shirt and jeans) and other science staff are deploying a Vibracorer off the R/V Knorr.Scott Cramer showing the Ocean Science Journalism Fellows the MRF facility.Rob Reves-Sohn preparing a Mexican meal for the cruise crew.Jim Valdes and Amy Bower with SALP system framework.
This is the first sunset of the R/V Knorr cruise on transit from Woods Hole towards the New Jersey continental shelf.Puma waited on the surface, nestled safely in a slushy patch of ice.Heeling tanks on Oden.
Summer Student Fellow Amy Kidd and CICOR Postdoctoral Scholar Jeremiah Hackett study the genetics of toxic algae in the culture lab.Sun finally shines up in the Arctic.Summer Student Fellows launch a CTD off R/V Tioga in July 2006.Ken Buesseler with an NBST.Jaguar recovery onto Oden.
A sunny day provides a rare opportunity in the Arctic to measure optical properties in situ while sensors on an orbiting satellite image the same location.Mike Jakuba of Johns Hopkins University guided the robotic underwater vehicle Jaguar back on board.Amy Bower showing Perkins School students around the Pilot House of Knorr.The WHOI mooring group deploys a University of Miami mooring from R/V Knorr.
WHOI volunteer Sheldon Holzer showing a student a REMUS vehicle at the WHOI exhibit center.Working on the deck of the research vessel Atlantis, pilots and technicians from the Alvin Group scrub down the submersible between dives.Researchers and crew aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould recover a new Large Area Plankton Imaging System (LAPIS) after a test in Antarctic waters in March 2006.John Collins and Susan Humphris with the BB OBS instrument.Research Engineer Bob Elder tests refurbished pigtail wiring before reinstalling electrical components during a rebuild of the remotely operated vehicle Jason.
Alvin pilot Phil Forte and biologist Tim Shank diving in Alvin.On a gray day in August 2006, WHOI research associate Phil Alatalo (right) and Captain Bill Kopplin motored out to the R/V Annika Marie at Barrow, Alaska.The group spent a month in the eastern Manus Basin, near Papua New Guinea in 2006, collecting hydrothermal vent fluids to analyze their composition.Aboard the Bulgarian R/V Akademik, research specialist Alan Gagnon (in the hat) and Bulgarian scientists inspect Niskin bottles during a Black Sea cruise with Assistant Scientist Marco Coolen. WHOI Marine mammal biologist and veterinarian Michael Moore has developed numerous techniques for working with whales from small open boats, including mechanisms for delivering medicines to whales.
R/V Knorr departing the WHOI dock for the Long Core test cruise, 8/28/07.The White Tern (Gygis alba) nests on coral islands throughout the tropics.Buoy recovery operations on R/V Knorr.a group of workers from the Facilities department moved the Pilot Whale skeleton, which had been hanging in Redfield lobby, up to its new home in the hallway at MRF.Looking down from the ship, scientists and crew look for Puma.
BL Owens waving goodbye to the SEA schooner Corwith Cramer.Ice chunks off the side of Oden.Dave Morton throwing overboard a sonobuoy hydrophone receiver.Students take part in studies of the formation and active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Brian Kidd, Will Ostrom and Glen Gawarkiewicz recover the ScanfishStickers posted at the Narwhal HotelScience staff kicking a hacky sack on Oden.Mark Baumgartner and Melissa Patrician working to deploy a CTD off Tioga.The largest oceanographic field experiment in WHOI history.
Assembly of the ceramic housing for the new HROV.Craig Marquette (left) and Glen Gawarkiewicz prepare for hydrography operations north of Cape Hatteras.Peter Tyack and Mark Johnson with the D-Tag.Rocks recovered by Camper in the Arctic ocean.Polar Continental Shelf Project warehouse full of equipment.
Jesse Austin-Breneman, a summer student fellow from MIT.Gus Day (bottom) and Marvel Stalcup (glasses) working on the R/V Crawford.Rhian Waller watched the transformation of tiny, shapeless offspring of Antarctic deep-sea corals as they grew tentacles within 24 hours of brooding.Coral core drilling
Scientists made plaster of Paris casts of fiddler crab burrows in Great Sippewissett Marsh, which did not receive oil from a 1969 spill, and in nearby Wild Harbor, which did.A sea urchin recovered from Alvin dive at7-13.Joint Program student Alex Apotsos (front), Student Fellow Levi Gorrell, and Mike Forte (with hat) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Atlantis II launching, 09/08/1962.Fogbows usually appear whenever overcast skies disappear.
Claudia Cenedese and Rachel Bueno de Mesquita in the WHOI Geophysics Fluids Dynamics Lab.Mike Carlowicz's sun glasses reflecting Chris Linder taking his photo.Methane seeping from the seafloor sustains microbes that serve as the base of the food chain for communities of animals, like these tubeworms.WHOI UOP group conducting at-sea repair on an ASIMET buoy.
Silhouette of Biology Joint Program student Carly Strasser waving so long before boarding Alvin.Arriving safely in Resolute, the many crates and bins of science gear are stacked up in the yard outside a research warehouse.Alvin's new Green LED light (penetrates water better), and red lasers.Under the observing eye of Senior Scientist Bob Weller, Engineering Assistant Sean Whelan removes sensor instruments from the CLIMODE buoy.
Kris Newhall and John Toole toting the ITP on a sled through the snow.Tioga Captain Ken Houtler teaching Summer Student Fellow DeAnna McCadney how to use a sextant.Fiddler crabGraduate student Regina Campbell-Malone with a whale jawbone.Rhiann Waller holding a bundle of tubeworms.
Paul Dunlap at work in his Redfield lab on bioluminescent bacteria.Working on ice just off the ship Oden.This specimen, Bulimina sp., measures about 400 x 250 micrometers (0.02 x 0.01 inch.)Travis Goetzinger sweeps the frost off of the wings of the Twin Otter in preparation for takeoff.An eruption that covered 9 square miles of seafloor with lava at the East Pacific Rise trapped three ocean-bottom seismometers.
R/V Oceanus departure to cruise to and back from Bermuda.
WHOI Machinist Dave Hamblin making polypropylene racks that will hold ceramic spheres in Nereus (HROV).Dick Edwards and Dick Leahy working with core onboard Atlantis, circa 1959.
Finger like bones on a harbor seal skeleton, taken in Darlene Ketten's lab.Multi-tasking onboard R/V Knorr.John Kemp and Kris Newhall assemble a mooring.
P.O. Department Chair Bob Weller onboard the F/V Nobska
WHOI Long Core handling equipment being tested on a mock-up of the R/V Knorr’s stern section.Weller working the STRATUS mooring recovery off Chile.
Torres del Paine, taken during a port call in Chile at Torres del Paine National Park in ChileAn 80 foot long ‘Jumbo’ piston core is launched from the deck of the USCG icebreaker HealyRTOSS mooring being deployed off Grenada, May 2007.
Supraglacial lakes may concentrate water so that it causes the ice to fracture and water to be injected directly to the bed, where the ice meets the ground.Kris Newhall and John Kemp examine and repair floats on board the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent.Jeff Lord assembling NTAS 7 mooring for deployment operations.
The WHOTS III buoy off Hawaii with the R/V Revelle in background.Geodynamics field trip to Iceland, June 2006.Apex floats in the lab aboard R/V Oceanus, headed out to CLIMODE.GumbyMoor buoy is being built in the shop by Michael McCarthy and Neil McPhee
Greg Dietzen, 2007 recipient of the Rear Admiral Richard F. Pittenger, USN (Ret) Fellowship.Rick Krishfield tests the Arctic Winch.Lead Welder Geoffery Ekblaw working on the assembly of the HROV (Nereus) frame in the welding shop.Eglinton and the rest of the science party on the Mackenzie River delta expedition.
Jeff Donnelly gives coring demonstration at Woodneck beach to the 2006 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows.micrograph of a colony of Trichodesmium sp.
glaciated ridges in iceland
Jeff Lord directing the deployment of the WHOTS II buoy.Engineers and scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution developed the Arctic Winch to reach up and take critical measurements of surface waters in polar oceans.Sea squirts are tunicates, a type of sea life with a firm, rubbery outer covering called a
WHOI's GGC being deployed from USCG HealyDust storms sweep iron-rich particles (mineral aerosols) from the continents into the atmosphere.A set of floats lowered by the ship's crane.Aerial view of R/V's Aries, Atlantis, Crawford, and Bear at WHOI dock.Sediments accumulate over time in layers on the seafloor, and they contain fossil shells of surface-dwelling microscopic marine animals.
Bi-annual WHOI Teachers Workshop in March 2007.The research team towed a low-frequency broadband imaging sonar near fish schools.Joan Bernhard and Dan McCorkleHanumant Singh with the new Chris Reddy, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, examines and collects oil-covered rocks at Nyes Neck in West Falmouth, Mass.
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Casey SaengerKris Newhall and John Kemp on deck witht ITP deployment A-frame support.adcp retrievalWHOI graduate student Clare M. Williams working with a rock sample.
Using the VPR, scientists found surprising abundances of cyanobacterium, such as Trichodesmium thiebautii.In the chilly South Atlantic aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown, WHOI graduate student Naomi Levine and colleagues worked around the clock for weeks.This squid, called Histioteuthis sp., is about six inches long, and lives in the midwater depths, nearly 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) down.17,500-year-old shells from a clam found in North Atlantic seafloor sediment.WHOI oceanographer Jim Ledwell has been selected as the winner of the 2007 Alexander Agassiz Medal, awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
The severity of wintertime climate over North America and Europe is strongly linked to the most prominent atmospheric pattern in the Northern Hemisphere, a seesaw exchange of air massed called the “northern annular mode.”WHOI paleoceanographer Konrad Hughen (left) and WHOI Research Associate Daniel Montlucon.WHOI scientists created a computer simulation of the historic 2005 toxic algae bloom in New England.The Ocean Observatory Initiative would provide $309 million for new ocean observing systems and infrastructure.Jennifer Culbertson's plaster casts of Fiddler crab holes.
The four major species of copepods in the Beaufort Sea all have different sizes, different life cycles, and different prey.One species of marine alga, Emiliania huxleyi.Three members of the WHOI team: Christopher German, Jian Lin, and Dana Yoerger.
The village of Kangiqsujuaq in northern Quebec (population less than 500) is nestled on a deep bay off Hudson Strait.John Kemp leaping across ice gap carrying drill bits for ITP deployment.Nicole Nichols and Chris Murphy in Singh's labJason Junior peering into stateroom U.View from the Huinay Scientific Field Station in the Comau fjord, Northern Patagonian fjords, Chile.
John kemp and Kris Newhall with a large chunk of ice pulled from the pack.Particles sinking from sunlit surface waters through the ocean’s dimly lit twilight zone are swept sideways by currents. Euchaeta norvegica eating a Calanus finmarchicus.Atlantis was, for all practical purposes, high and dry in 6 to 7 feet of water.
DSV Alvin headed back into its hangar, under the watchful eye of Expedition Leader and Alvin pilot Patrick Hickey.Bigelow Laboratory lit up at dusk.Location map of the Gakkel Ridge.John Lund in lab with Glider.R/V Knorr returning from KN188-2
PO Engineering Assistant Brian Hogue in the paint booth spraying instrumentation componenents.Bruce A. Keafer, pictured with retrieved sediment.horses in icelandR/V Oceanus sunset during cruise OC433.
Alvin pilot Val Wilson, circa 1966.Jeremy Kaspar, a student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, keeps a watchful eye on the icy ocean from onboard USCG Healy.Testing Norm Farr's optical modem at the WHOI dock.Corwith Cramer loading up MIT/WHOI Joint Program students
Attempting to piston core the consolidated shelf sediments in the Chukchi Sea caused the core casing to bend.Elephant Island glacier in the Southern OceanOne of the latest Anne Cohen coral slices.At Puget Sound Ropes in Anacortes, WA, the first few meters of a new synthetic rope are flaked into a shipping container.WHOI welder Geoff Ekblaw custom fabricates oceanographic instrumentation from engineering drawings.
A close encounter with a humpback whaleSummer Student Fellow with Jack Whitehead in lab.Officials posing with the recovered hydrogen bomb, 1966.R/V Louis St. Laurent - Beaufort Gyre, 08/02/2004.
Science equipment on the deck of R/V Oceanus, sailing out to CLIMODE experiment site.Henry Stommel, left, and Lou Howard (both on the MIT faculty at the time) hopped onto a turntable in the basement of Walsh Cottage to demonstrate the effect of rotation on seawater.The second is Jeff Lord recovering STRATUS VI buoy off Chile- NOAA Ship Ron Brown
MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student Diane Poehls Adams is breeding mussels in her lab.Salpa maxima (pelagic tunicate).Mooring retrievalRob Goldsborough working on the New York REMUSFritz Hess transfers by highline from USS Hazelwood to Atlantis II during the Thresher search.
WHOI Associate Scientist Matt Charrette (left) and Research Assistant Matt Allen.A breaching humpback whaleSediment trap recovery operationsPisten Bully towing the Thunder Sled across Ross Sea in the middle of Celebrating the return of the R/V Atlantis II from longest WHOI cruise to date, circa 10/1977.
WHOI Research Associate Mary CarmanR/V Oceanus stern fully loaded for CLIMODE, 11/2005. Euchaeta norvegica egg sac.Summer student fellow in flume with ABE model.
Core tops: Gathered around a fresh marine sediment core from 400 meters depth in the central Makassar Strait, Indonesia.MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Christian Miller water samplingEquipment and data are delivered into the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent's hold.Tim Verslycke works on a lobster in the lab.climode cruise rainbow
Leisure time onboard R/V Oceanus during cruise OC433NOBEL [Near Ocean Bottom Explosives Launcher] on the fantail of the R/V Atlantis II at the East Pacific Rise in 1996.MOCNESS deploymentMessman Kathryn Eident, looks at the moon in the distance from the deck of R/V Oceanus.LED Lighting System for Seabed
Alvin pilot Pat Hickey's 600th diveFresh from refinishing, the “Z-drive” propulsion units of the R/V Knorr are exposed in a Jacksonville shipyard.A tidewater glacier in Prinz Christian Sound on the southern tip of Greenland calves small bergy-bits as the USGC icebreaker Healy passes by.Broda's long core
John Lund and Bob Weller deploy an APEX float off R/V Oceanus during rough weather.Al Vine and colleagues rigged this tire ferry to keep foot traffic moving on Water Street in Woods Hole.Researchers and crew members struggle to deploy a spar buoy in rough seas.Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, where Iñupiat people rely on the annual migration of bowhead whales to coastal waters.Snow covered WHOI pet cemetery.
eploying a CTD with rosette water sampler off the R/V Atlantis II.skeleton of Pacific reef-building coral Acropora gemmiferaUSNS Mary Sears visits WHOI.A handful of fasteners held by a crewman.Matt Heintz demonstrating new HROV manipulator arm.
Researchers on R/V Oceanus deploy a sampling sled.The evolution of deep submergence vehicle Alvin.The International Space Station and DSV Alvin.Scientists deploy an undersea node off the R/V Tioga near the ASIT tower of the MVCO.
From onboard the Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent, Steward Judith Joncas peers out from a porthole.A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) feeding with sand lance jumping out of it's mouth.R/V Knorr backing up to an iceberg off the coast of Baffin IslandAndy Billings and Anthony Tarantino on Atlantis II with Alvin.The WHOI research vessel Knorr, high and dry at Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Florida
Tinted glasses and a darkened classroom helped fourth-graders experience how bright red fish exploit colors and lack of light to avoid predators.Cardiapoda, heteropod molluscSentry meets Alvin during testing off Bermuda.Summer Student Fellows onboard R/V Tioga.MIT/WHOI graduate students and faculty explored a bubbling, sulfur-encrusted hot spring in June of 2006
WHOI volunteer Rich Minor showing a star fish specimen to a young studentStainless steel 'core catchers' in production.will ostrom and joe alvernes scrape mussels from a rope.
Pam Polloni and Dick Backus in the Herbarium.R/V Knorr at the dock in NuukWhen Mark Spear stepped out of the submersible Alvin as WHOI's newest deep-sea pilot, fellow pilot Gavin Eppard greeted him with a traditional baptism on the deck of R/V AtlantisScientist Emeritus George Frisk's office poster.Summer Student Fellow Maya Yamato.
Evening instrumentation deployment off R/V Oceanus during cruise OC433.r/v oceanus cruise oc433 leaving woods hole

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