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Bay Watch
The village of Kangiqsujuaq in northern Quebec (population roughly 500) is nestled on a deep bay at the tip of Peninsule D’Ungava off Hudson Strait. The town was a staging…
Read MoreLong Jump
Senior Engineering Assistant John Kemp leaps across a melt pond in the Arctic ice while carrying drill bits for use in deploying an ice-tethered profiler in the Beaufort Sea. This…
Read MoreSome Assembly Required
Engineer Nicole Nichols and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Chris Murphy take a pause from their work in Hanumant Singh‘s laboratory to pose with two of the group’s projects. Murphy and…
Read MoreA Day to Remember
Ninety-five years ago today, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an icebergand sank into 12,500 feet (3800 meters) of water in the North Atlantic southeast of Newfoundland. In July 1986, nine months…
Read MoreRising Above It All
WHOI researchers were treated to a spectacular view of 2000 meters of mountain meeting 500 m of sea water in the Comau Fjord of Northern Patagonia (Chile). Marine chemist Laura…
Read MoreBatter Up
WHOI engineering assistants John Kemp (swinging the pickaxe) and Kris Newhall (holding the chain) work to remove a large chunk of ice after it has been pulled out of an…
Read MoreSeafloor to Space Station
Two miles underwater and 200 miles above Earth, biologist Tim Shank in Alvin and astronaut Suni Williams on the ISS share a recorded phone call from January 26, 2007.
Read MoreWorking in the Twilight Zone
Particles sinking from sunlit surface waters through the ocean’s dimly lit twilight zone are often swept sideways by currents. Conventional moored or tethered traps designed to catch the particles for…
Read MoreTastes Great, Less Filling
One copepod Euchaeta norvegica gobbles up another Calanus finmarchicus (clear and sticking out of the top of Euchaeta) after being scooped out of New England waters. Both zooplankton were captured…
Read MorePeaks of Interest
MIT/WHOI graduate student Kristin Smith and marine chemist Chris Reddy examine data from a sample of oil that naturally seeped from the seafloor off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.…
Read MoreStaying on Track
The deep submergence vehicle Alvin slowly moves back into its hangar under the watchful eye of Expedition Leader and Alvin pilot Patrick Hickey. When not being raised or lowered into…
Read MoreNight Watch
Bigelow Laboratory stands as sentry over the WHOI dock as evening settles in. The building is named for oceanographer Henry Bryant Bigelow, first director of WHOI. It was the Institution’s…
Read MoreRace to the Pole – Below Ice
On this day in 1909, explorers Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and their Inuit guides Ootah, Egigingwah, Seegloo and Ooqueah claimed to be the first humans to reach the North Pole.…
Read MoreWeighing In
Research Associate John Lund of the WHOI Autonomous Systems Lab lowers a glider into a test tank to weigh it in water, part of the process of adjusting the ballast.…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr returns to its home port in Woods Hole on March 22, 2007 after six weeks at sea for the CLIMODE project. Launched in 1968 and…
Read MorePaint Job
Brian Hogue, a WHOI engineering assistant in the Physical Oceanography Department, paints “the cage” section of an ocean current monitoring instrument (the vector averaging current meter) in the paint booth…
Read MoreNew England Mud Time
WHOI Research Associate Bruce Keafer digs into a pile of muddy sediment from the bottom of the Gulf of Maine. Keafer and colleagues worked in that North Atlantic basin in…
Read MoreHorsing Around in Iceland
WHOI researchers and graduate students were greeted by hundreds of horses, wild and domestic, while trekking through the west coast of Iceland. The WHOI group made the field trip the…
Read MoreDay is Done
The Sun sets over the North Atlantic, as viewed through the hatch of the wet lab on the research vessel Oceanus in November 2006. (Photo by Frederick Woodruff, Energy Advisors,…
Read MoreASIMET Buoy Designs Over the Years
Three’s Company
Three Pacific white-sided dolphins sped alongside the research vessel Atlantis during an October 2006 transit along the Oregon coast. “A school of perhaps 200 of them surrounded us for a…
Read MoreRide ’em, Cowboy
Alvin pilot Valentine Wilson sits atop the research submarine, shown in its earliest incarnation in 1966 (the external shape and design have been altered a bit over the years). After…
Read MoreIce Chips
Jeremy Kaspar, a graduate student from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, keeps a watchful eye on the sea ice crowding the Chukchi Sea in September 2003. Working aboard the…
Read MoreBright Idea
Engineers Hugh Popenoe, Norm Farr, and Terry Hammar test a new optical modem system for the first time in the fall of 2006 on the dock in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.…
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