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Knorr and Lulu Head to Sea

January 24, 2011

A towline connects the crane of the R/V Knorr (right) to Lulu, a 105-foot catamaran that served as the Alvin submersible’s first tender, as the two ships prepared to take…

George Tupper (left) and Terry McKee (right) of WHOI’s Physical Oceanograpthy Department are assisted by Matt Wilkerson of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as they prepare a rosette for deployment off…

Alvin’s New Quarters

January 22, 2011

At a public event in Woods Hole in October 2010, visitors get a close look at a mock-up of the new personnel sphere the research submarine Alvin will receive during…

Tiny Berths for Tiny Shipmates

January 21, 2011

Rows of petri dishes could mean bacteria being cultured. Instead, these are shipboard accommodations for copepods, little ocean animals related to shrimp but just a fraction of an inch long.…

Now Hear This

January 20, 2011

As part of a research efffort to find out if, and how, squid hear, biologist T. Aran Mooney sets a squid into a tank where its neural reactions will be…

Krill Hunters

January 19, 2011

WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (green shirt) and summer student fellow Jon Fincke reach to recover the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR), a towed underwater microscope that collects images of plankton. On…

Balls on a Wire

January 18, 2011

Oceanographers learn about the temperature, salinity, and movement of water deep below the surface by setting sophisticated instruments on mooring lines that reach from the seafloor to a buoy at…

Buoy Overboard

January 17, 2011

WHOI mooring technicians and engineers prepare to deploy a surface buoy in the Gulf Stream in November 2005. The buoy was anchored to the seafloor and outfitted with instruments both…

Alvin by the Bay

January 16, 2011

Rick Chandler (left), submersible engineer and operations group administrator, shows a mock-up of the renovated Alvin personnel sphere to a visitor at the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) booth at…

Which Came First, the Chicken or the Shark?

January 14, 2011

Shark egg cases, sometimes called “Mermaids’ purses,” can wash up on beaches, dried and stiff. Researchers found this one at the bottom of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. In May…

A Delicate Balance

January 13, 2011

Ringed seals, like the one pictured here, are the smallest and most common seals found in the Arctic. Their diets consist mainly of shrimp, krill and other small crustaceans and…

Gone Fishing

January 12, 2011

With his colleagues Jim Irish (in blue jacket) and Dezhang Chu (at right), WHOI scientist Tim Stanton adapted a low-frequency commercial sonar system, originally designed to survey seafloor geology, to identify fish…

Green Glow of Life

January 11, 2011

One suggested way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is to pump it into the deep ocean, where proponents believe it would remain as a slurry-like hydrate. WHOI geobiologist Joan Bernhard…

Unwanted Harvest

January 10, 2011

Low tide reveals gobs of the alga Ulva hanging from a sampling station on the Skagit tidal flats north of Seattle. In 2009 a team of researchers led by WHOI…

The Dynamic Duo

January 9, 2011

The manned submersible Alvin (left) made headlines during its recent Dive and Discover mission in the Gulf of Mexico, but the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry (right) is what had the scientific…

Ready for a Rest

January 8, 2011

Jerry Dean (foreground) and colleague carry a Vector Averaging Current Meter that had just been recovered from the Sargasso Sea, where it was attached to a mooring line as part…

Profiling Plankton

January 7, 2011

WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (foreground) and colleagues from the University of Rhode Island prepare to deploy the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) during a September 2010 expedition to the Gulf of…

Go South, Young Woman

January 6, 2011

Research at WHOI isn’t focused exclusively on the ocean. In 2007, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Andrea Burke got the chance to travel to Antarctica. She joined an expedition led by…

Danube Delta Cores

January 5, 2011

Did a flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out nearby Neolithic settlements? “We don’t see evidence for a catastrophic flood as…

Icy Communications

January 4, 2011

WHOI engineer Peter Koski from the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department sets up a remote recording station on a small ice floe in the Fram Strait, between Greenland and…

Finding HABs with ESP

January 3, 2011

Research associate Bruce Keafer inspects a new instrument known as the environmental sample processor (ESP) in the lab run by WHOI senior scientist Don Anderson. The robotic instrument will be…

A Line in the Ocean

January 2, 2011

Line W is an array of five moorings that has been monitoring changes in two currents that play important roles in regulating Earth’s climate: the Gulf Stream (orange area) and…

While the Tide is Out

January 1, 2011

Researchers take advantage of low tide to carry an instrument tower across the Skagit tidal flats north of Seattle in the summer of 2009. The team, which was led by…