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Line Check
Engineer Chris Lumping inspects a “line pack” of synthetic rope, looking for any tangles that might prevent it from unwinding smoothly. The line pack will be part of an assembly…
Read MoreFinal Touches
One night on the WHOI dock in 2009, senior engineer Norm Farr and the optical communications team of engineers prepared the hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus to record and…
Read MoreFrequent and Careful Work
Every few years since its launch, WHOI’s deep-diving human-occupied submersible Alvin undergoes a complete and thorough overhaul. In this archival image taken during a mid-1970s overhaul, engineer William “Skip” Marquet …
Read MoreStill There
In the summer of 2013, guest student Ferdinand Oberle collected samples of oil on a beach along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Each year since the Deepwater Horizon…
Read MoreWork Cut Out
WHOI research assistant Paul Henderson readied some of more than 600 filters for shipment to Ecuador in September 2013. Henderson and Falmouth High School student Andrew Franks spent more than…
Read MoreA Decade of Change
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy steams through “pancake” sea ice in the western Arctic Ocean in October 2013. WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart is leading the cruise to complete…
Read MoreSquid Summer
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Mary Ann Lee, from Ohio Wesleyan University, carefully nets an adult squid in a holding tank. Lee spent summer 2013 at WHOI, working with biologist Aran…
Read MoreStill Sailing
The original remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason waits for a 1991 cruise aboard the submarine support vessel Betty Chouest as Steve Lerner (facing camera) and Sandipa Singh of the Deep…
Read MoreExhale
A dolphin provides Julie Rocho-Levine a voluntary breath sample using a custom-made device that measures oxygen and CO2 levels and respiratory rate. WHOI biologist Michael Moore and MIT-WHOI graduate student…
Read MoreOn Duty
Whit, a seeing-eye dog, keeps close watch over his charge, physical oceanographer Britt Raubenheimer (second from left), as scientists and students check current meters they placed in the “swash zone”…
Read MoreDolphin Assist
Data-logging tags help scientists track marine mammals underwater—but what impact do these tools have on the animals themselves?
Read MoreTiny. Ubiquitous. Vital. Delicate. Vulnerable.
The Fate of Fukushima
A technician takes a mud core sample aboard the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) research vessel Tansei Maru in May 2012. Following up on his initial research…
Read MoreBattery Test
In the Alvin High Bay, the yellow-knobbed battery cells that power the human-occupied submersible, Alvin, undergo testing. Drew McCabe, a biology major at Roger Williams University and son of WHOI…
Read MoreSands of Tme
Geology & Geophysics research associate Kalina Gospodinova organizes sediment samples that include remnants of an ancient red cedar “paleoforest” that once grew along present-day Coast Guard Beach on Cape Cod.…
Read MoreWiring Alvin
Seen through one of HOV Alvin’s five new view ports, engineer and pilot Sean Kelley installs the wiring harness that distributes the power, data, control signals, video, and audio through…
Read MoreA Tap on the Back
Julie van der Hoop prepares to tag a fin whale in Quebec’s Gulf of St. Lawrence as part of a collaborative project between the Mingan Island Cetacean Study and the…
Read MoreDouble Vision
The Dual Deepworker, an innovative small submersible, can dive to 2,000 feet carrying two people and providing each person a rare, 360-degree view of their surroundings. The sub was at…
Read MoreMath Matters
WHOI post-doc Kakani Katija Young explains some of the physics, math, and engineering she used to predict the buoyancy and stability for the re-built human-occupied vehicle Alvin. Young, named an…
Read MoreThe Light in the Water
WHOI biologist Sam Laney talks to a group of teachers at the dock beside Eel Pond, the harbor in Woods Hole, Mass. The event was a recent teacher workshop on…
Read MoreLove that Dirty Water
Meltwater carrying finely ground glacial till is visible from the air as researchers prepare to deploy instruments into a West Greeenland fjord by helicopter. WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo led…
Read MoreStronger Than it Looks
Postdoctoral investigator Maria Pachiadaki (left) and Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Allison Heater deploy Deep-SID, a sampling robot, during a cruise to the Mediterranean in 2011 aboard R/V Atlantis.…
Read MorePorteous and Vetlesen Awardees
Diana Franks and Dave Kulis, recipients of the 2013 WHOI Linda Morse-Porteous and Vetlesen award recipients, respectively. The Linda Morse-Porteous award has been given since 1991 to recognize a female…
Read MoreWinch Work
Researchers monitor the deployment of a SeaCycler, part of a Global Subsurface Hybrid Profiler Mooring installed at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific in the summer of 2013. The SeaCycler…
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