 July 1, 2009Floating Without Imploding What can float like a butterfly and withstand 16,500 pounds per square inch of pressure, but shatters like a Christmas tree ornament if you drop it? Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 15, 2009Let There Be Light in the Dark Depths Nothing is ever trivial or easy when it comes to building a vehicle to operate effectively in the deepest parts of the ocean, and that includes lights and cameras. Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 11, 2009Armed and Dexterous To perform tasks in the deepest depths, engineers had to design a one-of-a-kind manipulator arm for the new deep submergence vehicle Nereus. Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 5, 20092,000 Batteries Under the Sea Mission: Create one of the larger battery packages ever put in a deep-sea vehicle and ensure it is safe and reliable. Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 4, 2009Miles Under the Sea, Hanging on by Hair-Thin Fiber "You'd have to think you were out of your mind to try and tether a vehicle weighing several tons to a surface ship using a tiny fiber with breaking strength of only 8 pounds." Source: Oceanus Magazine  September 24, 2007A Warm Eddy Swirling in the Cold Labrador Sea A scientist who hasn't let her visual impairment slow her down encourages others to reach their aspirations, too. Source: Oceanus Magazine  Engineer Amy Kukulya—A Video Profile from PBS KidsAmy Kukulya is an oceanographic engineer at Woods Hole and helps build and operate torpedo-shaped robots to map terrain under water. Watch a Design Squad episode highlighting her work. » Visit Web site  July 19, 2007Summer Under Arctic Ice The idea to use robotic underwater vehicles to explore beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean first came to Rob Reves-Sohn while bathing his baby daughter. Ten years later, the WHOI geophysicist is leading a research cruise attempting to reach the Arctic Ocean floor with robotic vehicles. Source: Oceanus Magazine  July 12, 2007Following Whales Up a Creek WHOI marine mammal biologist Michael Moore aided in the first successful delivery of antibiotics to wild free-swimming whales using a delivery device he is developing, during a large-scale effort to rescue two endangered humpback whales marooned in the Sacramento River Delta, California in May, 2007. Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 29, 2007Christopher Reddy, Marine Chemist Oil spills are terrible for the environment, but they also provide an excellent opportunity to study how the ocean and its ecosystems respond to extreme events. Most people see a spill and focus only on its toxic effects. But marine chemist Chris Reddy and colleagues see it as a huge injection of carbon-based food for microbes in the coastal environment.  June 29, 2007Don Anderson, Holding Back Red Tide The ocean is teeming with plants, and most of them are good for marine animals and the planet as a whole. But as with anything in life, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Biologist Don Anderson studies an insidious and sometimes fatal form of overindulgence: harmful algal blooms.  June 6, 2007Michael Moore While he works with many species of whales, Senior Scientist Michael Moore has devoted much of his career to understanding and saving the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, who are too often the victims of human activities.  June 6, 2007Chris German: Searching for Hydrothermal Vents Around the World A profile of Chris German, senior scientist and chief scientist of the National Deep Submergence Facility.  August 16, 2006A Journey to the Ocean's Twilight Zone A torrent of particles rains down through the ocean's dimly lit regions, providing food for organisms below and sequestering some heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A WHOI biogeochemist investigates what makes it into the ocean's twilight zone and what makes it out. Source: Oceanus Magazine  May 15, 2006Worlds Apart, But United by the Oceans A conversation with geophysicist Jian Lin Source: Oceanus Magazine  December 15, 2005Tracking an Ocean of Ice Atop Greenland Greenland glaciers appear to be flowing toward the ocean and melting at their edges—far more rapidly and unexpectedly than scientists had anticipated. Source: Oceanus Magazine  September 9, 2005Building an Automated Underwater Microscope WHOI biologist Heidi Sosik discusses plankton and a new way of looking at it, the Imaging FlowCytobot Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 7, 2005Fathoming the Ocean Without Ever Going to Sea "The general circulation of the ocean is a massive and majestic phenomenon," says WHOI physical oceanographer Joe Pedlosky. In 2005, Pedlosky was awarded the prestigious Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his theories explaining the inner workings of the ocean and the atmosphere. Not bad for an oceanographer who has never gone on a research cruise. Source: Oceanus Magazine  May 22, 2005Stace Beaulieu Stace, a state spelling bee champion turned scientist, once lost an eighth grade competition after tripping on the word “haddock.”  January 31, 2000Hans Schouten Hans Schouten was born in Holland and attended school there, eventually earning a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utrecht. His field of interest is the magnetic features of the Earth and what they can tell us about geology.  April 1, 1999Marie Tharp Marie Tharp, a scientist from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, was awarded WHOI's Women Pioneer in Oceanography Award in 1999. Last updated: November 9, 2009 | |||||||||||||
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