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Say “Ah”
At Crab Spa, a diffuse-flow hydrothermal vent site on the East Pacific Rise, Alvin’s manipulator arm holds a sensor developed by Nadine Le Bris that measures temperature, pH, and sulfide…
Read MoreA Wing and a Sonar
In 1960, WHOI researchers on the research vessel Crawford devised a novel way of measuring seafloor slope. They took sonar depth measurements from two fixed points about 50 feet apart:…
Read MoreNew Students, New Tasks
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students (left to right) Scott Haven, Adam Trainer, Nicholas Macfarlane, Daniel Amrhein and Melissa Moulton retrieve a water sampler during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise aboard…
Read MoreR&R for Jason
Whenever possible, the Jason Group at WHOI schedules maintenance of the hard-working remotely operated vehicle. Here, WHOI contractor Scott Hansen works on the vehicle’s thruster motors. ROV Jason recently completed…
Read MoreAlvin Gets a Bath
Alvin pilots kick off their traditional “skins party,” during a Dive and Discover expedition to the Galápagos Rift in May 2005. After the last dive of every expedition the pilots…
Read MoreA Midwestern Hemisphere
One of two new hemispheres for the research sub Alvin cools at Wisconsin-based forge, Ladish, in June 2008. Once forged, the hemispheres, which began as 35,000 pounds of titanium ingots,…
Read MoreSend in Sentry
In September 2009, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry explored the ocean bottom off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., for underwater methane seeps. Go to WHOI’s Dive and Discover…
Read MoreAlvin Returns Home
2010 Haiti Earthquake
Explore the tectonic forces behind the 2010 Haiti earthquake and how stress built upand shiftedalong the Enriquillo fault zone.
Read MoreAlvin to Investigate Gulf Spill
In April 2010, the deep submersible Alvin (shown here with its support ship, R/V Atlantis in the background) carried out a month-long expedition to to the Galapagos Spreading Center in…
Read MoreWhat’s In a Name
In October 2007, U. S. and Filipino scientists searched the deep water of the Celebes Sea in Southeast Asia, for new species. When they discovered this extraordinary worm—which they called…
Read MoreThe Icebot
A video documents expedition to use robots under Arctic ice.
Read MoreTagging a Basking Shark
Watch how researchers tag sharks.
Read MoreHands-on Design
In 2011 the Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin will receive a major upgrade, including a new titanium personnel sphere. This full scale mock-up of the new sphere will help engineers…
Read MoreThe Weddell Waddle
Scientists working in Antarctica on sea ice in the Weddell Sea are frequently visited by penguins. These were checking up on WHOI Associate Scientist Hanu Singh and his team—Clay Kunz,…
Read MoreAlvin Takes a Bow
A crane lifts the submersible Alvin off the WHOI dock to load it onto R/V Atlantis for a research cruise to the Gulf of Mexico. The crane isn’t bending—it’s appearance…
Read MoreThankful
Students graduating from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering march to the 2010 commencement ceremony on the WHOI Quissett Campus, while PhD recipient Jeff Standish pumps…
Read MoreWHOI Engineer Turns Author
Hear excerpts from David Fisichella’s memoir Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea.
Read MoreREMUS Returns from the Deep
Aboard the R/V Tioga, WHOI engineer Craig Marquette (middle) and physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz (left) and Anthony Kirincich work to recover a Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit (REMUS) vehicle during a…
Read MoreLayers of Lobsters
Anna-Mai Christmas, an undergraduate at the University of the Virgin Islands, worked with WHOI biologist Scott Gallager to study the behavior of week-old lobster larvae exposed to layers of water…
Read MoreTaking the Oil’s Measure
In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, WHOI scientists and engineers contributed a broad range of expertise and equipment to investigations of the oil and its impact on…
Read MoreFun With Krill
WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Wu-Jung Lee talk a little krill in the congested lab aboard the R/V Endeavor during a September 2010 cruise. Krill are…
Read MoreWatching the Fraser River Flow
At Hell’s Gate in British Columbia, the Fraser River flows with roughly twice the water volume of the Niagara Falls. A team of scientists and students from WHOI and the…
Read MoreQuite a Ride
Oceanographers working in the North Atlantic in autumn always face the prospect stormy weather, but those on a recent cruise on the research vessel Atlantis got more than their share.…
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