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Soaring
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…
Read MoreTeeming with Opportunity
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…
Read MoreGo Sox
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.…
Read MoreA Firm Grip
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…
Read MoreCut Ups
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…
Read MoreDog Days
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…
Read MoreUsing ITPs to Explore Change in the Arctic
Interview with WHOI senior scientist John Toole.
Read MorePutting ITPs In and Getting Data Out
Engineer Rick Krishfield discusses the challenges of getting ice-tethered profilers in the field and then retrieving the data.
Read MoreIce Capades
Wath the entire process of installing an ice-tethered profiler in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.
Read MoreInstalling and Recovering an Ice-Tethered Profiler
He Doesn’t Do Windows
WHOI engineering assistant Sean Whelan cleans the longwave and shortwave radiometer domes on top of a Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station buoy during an April 2006 expedition off Barbados. The buoys measure…
Read MoreLearning from a Master
WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp got his hands (and knees) dirty in the summer of 2006 while leading the logistical effort to deploy 62 moorings for the Shallow Water…
Read MoreNext of Kin
On December 11, 1968, the Deep Submergence Vehicle Sea Cliff (DSV-4) was christened and launched at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation for the U.S. Navy. The personnel sphere…
Read MoreFirst Mud
[From foreground to background] WHOI researchers Bill Curry and Jim Broda, as well as Rolf Ambjornsen of the Norwegian marine services company Odim, help retrieve the first sediment ever collected…
Read MoreClap Trap
A set of “clap traps” await deployment on the fantail of the research vessel Roger Revelle in the summer of 2005. Clap traps are moored instruments designed to collect particles…
Read MoreA Closer Look
2007 Summer Student Fellow Carolina Gutierrez assists Tom Siemens (Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center of the University of New England) with a necropsy on a seal. Dozens of animals, most often…
Read MoreFar Afield
WHOI Trustee Peter Aron gets a close-up view of a penguin during a cruise with the WHOI Associates to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, Tasmania, and New Zealand in November 2005. The…
Read MoreWHOI on the Big Stage
WHOI’s Acting President and Director James Luyten joins other state and federal dignitaries in announcing a $97.7 million contract to support the development, installation, and initial operation of the coastal…
Read MoreCannon Salute
Senior Engineer Ben Allen fires a canon to herald the return of research vessel Knorr as it cruised into Woods Hole after the successful first test of the ship’s new…
Read MoreCirculatory System of the Ocean
A global system of ocean circulationoften called the “great ocean conveyor” transports vast amounts of heat and salt around the planet via warmer surface currents (red) and colder deep currents…
Read MoreThis Seaweed’s Not for Sushi
[From left] Biologists Don Anderson (WHOI), Deana Erdner (University of Texas and former member of Anderson’s lab) and Robert Dickey (U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory) traveled…
Read MoreCover Your Back
While the icebreaker Oden was smashing ice and trying to push it away from the bow, the ship’s officers also kept an eye on Oden’s aft, 107.7 meters (353 feet)…
Read MoreThe Clapper
A crew member on the research vessel Kilo Moana assists in the deployment of a “clap-trap” mooring during the summer 2004 Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) project off…
Read MoreGet a Grip
Working at the WHOI dock, summer student fellow Tess Brandon (Cornell University) and WHOI engineering assistant Amy Kukulya prepare a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle for a research trip out to…
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