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REMUS Underway (Ocean Systems Laboratory, WHOI)


Tagging of a Right Whale

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Tagging of a Northern Right Whale in the Bay of Fundy using a cantilever pole. (Research was conducted under permit # 981-1707, BOF2001 issued by NMFS under the authority of the MMPA and the EPA.) D-tags are used to record whale movements, depth, and sounds on dives. The tags are harmlessly suctioned on to the skin of whales for several days. Once they fall off and float to the surface, the tags are taken back to the lab to read the story of the whales' dives—from their swimming behavior to the kinds of vocalizations they use while foraging. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


WHOI has a long standing tradition of working with government organizations, bridging its basic science and engineering to military and environmental applications, as well as other contexts.

Historically, government-funded research at WHOI has lead to the following ground-breaking research and inventions, including:
  • Underwater explosive effects including depth charges
  • Bathythermograph invented and applied to submarine, ASW and US submariners instruction
  • Deep ocean acoustics, deep scattering layer, biologic noise, ocean dynamics, currents, tides, waves
The Business Development Office continues the tradition by helping establish and manage federally sponsored research projects with the US Navy, DoE, DoI, among others. We are seeking to increase our number of cross industry-government projects as well.

Project Examples

1.) The REMUS project has enabled the United States Navy to deploy autonomous underwater vehicles, developed at WHOI, that can augment their undersea capabilities to safely search underwater for objects of interest while reducing the need for costly large ship or risky manned operations. REMUS vehicles have been deployed throughout the world, including the Persian Gulf. For more, please see the Oceanographic Systems Laboratory's home page.

2.) The effect of sonar on marine mammals is a long standing issue that continues to invite much criticism in the public domain. WHOI is working with the United States Navy to learn exactly what kinds of effects man made noise has on marine mammals. Man made noise sources include sonar, ship traffic, and operations associated with oil exploration, commercial fishing, etc. The Marine Mammal Center at WHOI is actively researching these issues through interdisciplinary science and engineering, and through strategic collaborations with partners around the world. For more, please see the WHOI Marine Mammal Center's home page. 

Foreign Governments

Since Oceanography is a global field, WHOI has many strategic partnerships and collaborations with countries around the world.




Last updated: November 9, 2009
 


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