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Class Field Trip

Class Field Trip

Students from a course entitled “Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming” offered by Woods Hole Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension hiked out to the tidal flats to tour a shellfish aquaculture operation…

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Close-up

Close-up

In September 2013 WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler traveled with a group of Japanese colleagues to the northeastern coast of Japan within one kilometer (one-half mile) of the damaged nuclear…

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Ice Breaker

Ice Breaker

WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak and guest student Kelsey Gosselin had to clear ice from a frozen pond in Rowley, Mass., last month to get access to the water and mud…

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It Takes a Crew

It Takes a Crew

On December 5, WHOI commemorated the career of the research vessel Knorr, which will be retired from the U.S. oceanographic fleet this month. During the event, the ship’s current captain, Kent…

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Core Principle

Core Principle

You’re looking down the barrel of the Long Core on the starboard rail of the research vessel Knorr. This one-of-a-kind instrument was developed at WHOI to extract plugs of sediment…

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Deep Maggie

Deep Maggie

A WHOI-MISO Towed Digital Camera frame containing a deep-towed magnetometer system— otherwise known as the TowCam “Deep Maggie”— takes a breather on the WHOI dock in August  before being loaded…

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Chimney Sweep

Chimney Sweep

This bucket of recovered samples included slices of hydrothermal vent chimneys brought up from the undersea East Pacific Rise (EPR) by the remotely operated vehicle Jason. Chimneys are formed when chemical-rich…

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Early Ocean Arrival

Early Ocean Arrival

Earth is sometimes known as the Blue Planet for the fact that the global ocean covers more than 70 percent of its surface. Until recently, however, scientists didn’t know when…

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Quick Release

Quick Release

Kris Newhall rigs a quick-release hook used by the crane aboard R/V Knorr to lift the surface buoy of a global surface mooring over the side. The mooring was deployed…

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Tuning In To SharkCam

Tuning In To SharkCam

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya steadies the REMUS SharkCam in in a test tank while acoustics engineer Keenan Ball monitors sensor and propulsion noise. Just weeks after the SharkCam made a…

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Direct Line to the Seafloor

Direct Line to the Seafloor

WHOI researchers Jim Broda, left, and Al Gagnon wave to well-wishers as the research vessel Knorr departed in October on one of the final cruises of its 44-year career. The…

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Ready to Jump Ship

Ready to Jump Ship

Profiler moorings aboard the R/V Knorr await deployment to the Pioneer Array, a part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Located along the interface between coastal waters and the Atlantic Ocean,…

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First View

ROV Jason captured the first live view of a deep, salty, oxygen-free basin—revealing a sharp boundary scientists called “the beach” between worlds.

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Jason, Deconstructed

Jason, Deconstructed

The remotely operated vehicle Jason (left), which also includes its partner vehicle Medea (right), is a relatively uncommon sight around Woods Hole because the system is in such high demand.…

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The Old Ways

The Old Ways

On a recent cruise on board the University of Washington’s R/V Thomas G. Thompson, WHOI research associate Marshall Swartz and crewmembers Brian Clampitt and Paul Benecki (left to right) worked…

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More Than A Mooring

More Than A Mooring

Group Operations Leader John Kemp uses a hook to recover a top float mooring in September 2014 in the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean. In the 12th year of the Beaufort…

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Together By TREET

Together By TREET

As part of the TREET (Transforming Remotely Conducted Research Through Ethnography, Education & Rapidly Evolving Technologies) program, senior scientist Chris German and recent Harvard graduate, Alexandra Stote, connected with a classroom at Duke…

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Signs of the Past

Signs of the Past

A REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle dove through the clear, blue waters of the Mediterranean in September 2011 on a mission to find and survey Bronze Age shipwrecks off the coast of…

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Raise a Cup

Raise a Cup

Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, visited WHOI Nov. 6 for face-to-face discussions with scientists and engineers conducting research and building technology with potential to enhance Naval capabilities and…

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Trapped Oil

Trapped Oil

Some 200 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged Macondo well during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, but scientists estimate that half of…

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Operation Free Turtle

Operation Free Turtle

People who come across sea turtles or other marine animals in distress should immediately contact a local disentanglement hotline. But what happens if you are hundreds of miles from a…

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Under the Hood

Under the Hood

Jason gets a checkup from assistant engineer Korey Verhein during one of the vehicle’s rare appearance in Woods Hole this fall. The remotely operated vehicle and its partner, Medea have been used…

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Listening In

Listening In

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate Max Kaplan positions a DMON acoustic recording device on Helen Reef, the southernmost island of Palau, in the far western Pacific. The DMON records sounds produced…

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