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Steadying Hands

November 16, 2007

Able Seaman Clindor Cacho holds tight to the hook end of a winch on the research vessel Oceanus. Researchers and crew have sailed on the vessel several times this year…

Spreading the Jelly

November 15, 2007

This “colonial” jelly a siphonophore of the Rosacea genus was spied in April 2006 by divers in the blue waters of the Sargasso Sea during a Census of Marine Zooplankton…

Know with the Flow

November 14, 2007

Students Jinbo Wang (left) and Evgeny Logvinov help conduct a Rossby wave experiment in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as part of a graduate course. Red dye was injected into…

Pillars of a Community

November 13, 2007

WHOI seafloor geologist Dan Fornari and then-graduate student Tracey Gregg inspect a portion of a lava pillar that was generated during a 1991 eruption on the East Pacific Rise (EPR).…

Despite their lumbering appearance, manatees are graceful swimmers and to many, a vanishing symbol of wild Florida. Researchers from WHOI and several science and conservation institutions hope digital tags, or…

Day of Knight

November 11, 2007

A group of journalists from the Knight Science Journalism program assemble on the aft deck of the research vessel Oceanus for a tour in October 2007 with WHOI science writer…

I Love the Night Life

November 10, 2007

The lights are on, but (almost) nobody’s home on a Saturday night in Woods Hole in March 2007. From left to right stand the Candle House and Visitor Center of…

Unusual Commute to Work

November 9, 2007

Researchers and technicians from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boarded and refurbished the “Middle Atlantic” buoy of the National Data Buoy Center network during an April 2007 expedition. WHOI…

Reef Watch

November 8, 2007

A clownfish swims amid the corals of the Red Sea, where WHOI researchers are planning to team with colleagues from Saudi Arabia to examine a reef system that has mostly…

Coral Destruction

November 6, 2007

Cold Insulation

When sea ice forms, it releases salt into surface waters. These waters become denser and sink to form the Arctic halocline a layer of cold water that acts as barrier…

WHOI Pier Over Time

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Ascension Day

November 5, 2007

A crewmember from the research vessel Knorr rises into a helicopter operated by the Icelandic coast guard during a recent cruise in the North Atlantic. When the coast guard came…

Getting in Tune

November 3, 2007

Able seaman Ronnie Whims, part of the crew of the research vessel Oceanus, plucks out a tune on his guitar while resting on the ship’s port-side deck near a Craib…

Staying On Top of His Work

November 2, 2007

Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel Ronald…

Soaring

October 31, 2007

WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and oceanographer Jerry Dean recover the Seasoar towed vehicle (with a mounted video plankton recorder) in February 1997 from the research vessel Oceanus. The…

Teeming with Opportunity

October 30, 2007

WHOI scientists captured this view of a coral reef in the Red Sea during a spring 2007 visit to Saudi Arabia. Researchers from the Middle East kingdom have asked WHOI…

Go Sox

October 29, 2007

Working and living at sea is never easy, but it is even harder when your favorite team is in the World Series and you aren’t due home for two weeks.…

A Firm Grip

October 28, 2007

Marine technician Gary Austin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory assembles a soft tether release on the Low Frequency Acoustic Seismic Experiment (LFASE) in August 1989. Researchers…

Cut Ups

October 27, 2007

Adelphi University researchers Amanda Uster and Beth Christensen (right) open a sediment core retrieved from the continental shelf off New Jersey during an August 2007 expedition on the research vessel…

Dog Days

October 26, 2007

WHOI research associate Terry Hammar works to attach some lead weights to a release mechanism beneath the ‘dog dish’ in preparation for testing the new “long core” system on the…