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| 1. An aerial photo of Woods Hole taken September 10, 2001, shows Knorr (near side of pier) and Atlantis in port and the drawbridge up. (Doug Weisman) |
| 2. Viewed through a forest of vector-measuring current meter vanes in the Upper Ocean Processes electronics laboratory, Rob Handy solders cables for a meteorological buoy. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 3. Alvin is lifted aboard R/V Atlantis following a six-month overhaul. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 4. WHOI Senior Engineering Assistant Butch Grant works on a seafloor node for the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory. The node contains a core set of underwater sensors, as well as the power and telemetry systems required to interface to a wide variety of instruments. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 5. WHOI Research Assistant Christie Haupert (center) works with Paul Henderson, left, from The School for Marine and Science Technology (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) and WHOI Oceanographer Emeritus George Hampson to collect data for research on the impact of nutrient rich ground water in Ashumet Pond, located in Falmouth, Massachussetts. (Tom Kelindist) |
| 6. WHOI Assistant Scientist Katrina Edwards collects water samples from Salt Pond in Falmouth, MA, in search of bacteria that make their own compasses. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 7. Inside ROV Jason's control van, all eyes are on the video monitors displaying mid-ocean ridge black smoker chimneys. Expedition Leader Andy Bowen pilots the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Jason from R/V Knorr during 2001 operations in the Indian Ocean. (Amy Nevala for Dive and Discover) |
| 8. Larry Costello of the Mooring Operations Group sets up a buoy designed to help quantify the deposition of mineral dust blown from desert areas to the ocean. A major objective of the project is to better understand the effects of the iron content of mineral dust on biological production in the ocean. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 9. WHOI Assistant Scientist Matthew Charette conducts ground water tests in Waquoit Bay to study how anthropogenic sources of nitrogen have adversely impacted the water quality of coastal ponds on Cape Cod. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 10. Scientists and students are at work in WHOI Assistant Scientist Ken Halaynch's laboratory. The primary focus of the Halanych lab is to research the evolution of marine invertebrate animals. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 11. Captain A.D. Colburn studies the radar screen on the bridge of R/V Knorr during studies of Red Sea overflow in the Gulf of Aden. (David Fisichella) |
| 12. WHOI Associate Scientist Amy Bower prepares RAFOS floats aboard R/V Knorr during studies of Red Sea overflow in the Gulf of Aden. Drifting RAFOS floats record sound signals received from stationary acoustic beacons. At the ends of their preprogrammed missions, the floats drop their ballast weights, rise to the surface, and beam data delineating their current-driven journeys to orbiting satellites. (David Fisichella) |
| 13. Senior Scientist Don Anderson and Postdoctoral Investigator Aishoa Li observe clay flocculation of a red tide culture. They are working on methods for using clay dispersed over a harmful algal bloom to remove red tide cells from the water column. The aggregation of cells and clay at the surface of the beaker will eventually fall to the bottom. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 14. Scientists and crew aboard NSF's icebreaking research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer prepare to launch BIOMAPER-II (BIO-optical Multi-frequency Acoustical Physical Environmental Recorder) just after the late-afternoon Antarctic sunset on July 30, 2001. Peter Wiebe, second from right, was the Chief Scientist for the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics work. (Tom Bolmer) |
| 15. Anne Edwards sections a sediment core for precise paleoceanography studies in the Seafloor Samples Laboratory. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 16. Engineering Assistants Scott Worrilow (standing) and Ryan Schrawder test a new moored profiler on the WHOI pier. The profiler travels up and down a wire that may be moored for up to a year or more so the profiler can record a long time series of temperature, salinity, and current measurements. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 17. WHOI personnel form a human chain off the Woods Hole pier as part of a course called "Sea Survival for Oceanographic Scientists". This technique helps move a group that is abandoning a ship safely to a life raft. (Dave Gray) |
| 18. John Romiza operates a forklift on the WHOI pier. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 19. Citing assistance with a number of highly visible projects and a productive long-term relationship, Captain Russ Webster (left) and RADM George Naccara of the U.S. Coast Guard presented the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) with the Coast Guard's Public Service Commendation April 24, 2001, during dockside ceremonies at the Group Woods Hole facility. WHOI Director Robert Gagosian, second from right, and Associate Director for Marine Operations Richard Pittenger accepted the award on behalf of the Institution. |
| 20. Associate Scientist Dana Yoerger of the Deep Submergence Laboratory talks with the Honorable Thomas Birmingham, President of the Massachusetts State Senate, and State Senator Therese Murray about ABE (Autonomous Benthic Explorer) during their visit to WHOI in August of 2001. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 21. MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students Rose Came, left, and Kristy Dahl use microscopes to examine the skeletons of tiny organisms called nannoplankton. The plankton were collected by the students in waters off Woods Hole as part of a paleoceanography course lab. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 22. Toru Idai, visiting from the Mutsu Institution for Oceanography in Japan, works in the WHOI rigging shop. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 23. Research Specialist Jim Broda guides a deep-sea dredge and the rocks it has collected onto the U.S. Coast Guard cutter and icebreaker Michael Healy. Starting July 31, Healy, spent two months in the Arctic Ocean for studies of the Gakkel Ridge -- the slowest spreading ridge on earth. WHOI Senior Scientist Henry Dick was one of the principal investigators on this first Healy research voyage. (Henry Dick) |
| 24. Arctic explorers from the cutter/icebreaker Michael Healy take a break for a soccer game during their Gakkel Ridge cruise. (Deborah Hassler) |
| 25. Senior Scientist Daniel Fornari holds a trap containing crabs that were caught near a hydrothermal vent in the Indian Ocean at a depth of about 2,430 meters. He is wincing because of the smelly fish inside, used for bait in the trap. (Amy Nevala for Dive and Discover) |
| 26. Working from the NSF icebreaker/research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer researchers thread their way through pack ice during Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics operations off Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere's winter of 2001. (Tom Bolmer) |
27. As part of of an experiment for the Coupled Boundary Layers/Air-Sea Transfer (C-BLAST) Defense Research Initiative, an extra cable was attached to a subseafloor node built for the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory.
Here, researchers and crew members aboard the R/V Nobska lower the node containing the extra cable. Data compiled from the node will contribute to a long-term study designed to improve understanding of air-sea interaction and coupled atmospheric and oceanic boundary layer dynamics at low wind speeds. (Marga McElroy) |
| 28. Research Associate Victoria Starczak works in the field with Murray Crous of South Africa, a student winner in the Worldwide Young Researchers for the Environment (WYRE) competition. This year WHOI hosted the international research camp for WYRE, which aims to encourage the next generation of natural scientists and engineers and to strengthen the dedication of young people around the world to the environment by offering them an international platform for exchange and discussion through research competitions and camps. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 29. Senior Scientist Steve Elgar rides a wave runner while researching coastal sandbars in Truro, MA. (Tom Kleindist) |
| 30. R/V Oceanus spent August 2001 working in northern waters near Iceland and Greenland for studies of deep convection and of basin-wide circulation in the Irminger Sea southwest of Iceland. The North Atlantic provided some interesting weather! (Chris Linder) |
