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A Dock Away From Home
Former WHOI engineer Greg Packard inspects a docking station designed and built by Hydroid, Inc. for the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. Two of these stations will be deployed to the…
Read MoreKnorr’s Final Mission
The R/V Knorr waits at home port in mid-October before departing on its final mission. After heading to the Mid-Atlantic Bight to support an installation of the Pioneer Array (one…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
This 1967 photo shows the research submersible Alvin in the water with two support swimmers, as crew watch from Lulu, the sub’s first tender ship. WHOI still operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence…
Read MoreHunt for Life
Postdoctoral investigator Maria Pachiadaki (left) and Shipboard Scientific Services Group(SSSG) technician Allison Heater deploy Deep-SID, a robotic biology laboratory designed for the deep ocean. The instrument collects water samples and mixes…
Read MoreTioga at Ten
WHOI’s coastal research vessel, R/V Tioga, gets some attention in port from crew member Ian Hanley (left) and Captain Ken Houtler. Equipped with water samplers, a current profiler, an echo-sounder,…
Read MoreUp From the Depths
WHOI-MIT graduate student Santiago Herrera examines a group of amphipods recovered from the Kermadec Trench in the spring of this year. Herrera and a team led by WHOI biologist Tim…
Read MoreReef Ray
A manta ray glides over a coral reef on Jarvis Island in the Central Equatorial Pacific. A team including MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Liz Drenkard and Alice Alpert, from WHOI…
Read MoreIn His Element
WHOI senior research specialist Jim Broda stands on deck of R/V Knorr in front of the Long Core system’s main winch just prior to Knorr‘s departure from WHOI on its…
Read MoreBaffled by the Bloom
Scientists and students on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather around a computer to learn how to to guide a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) package to the seafloor and back. …
Read MorePlankton Under Ice
In May and June 2014, a cruise co-led by WHOI scientist Bob Pickart aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy went to the Arctic to study large phytoplankton blooms forming…
Read MorePlankton Pump
Amy Maas, a postdoc in the labs of WHOI biologists Gareth Lawson and Ann Tarrant, joined fellow postdoc Mike Lowe in testing a plankton pump aboard the R/V Tioga in…
Read MoreTo Sea Once More
The research vessel Knorr left Woods Hole on Sunday for the final cruise of its career at WHOI. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled more than one million miles in support of research on…
Read MoreSlow and Low
A helicopter flies back from the edge of Sarqardliup Glacier in West Greenland, where glacialogist Sarah Das and physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo are studying rates of submarine melting and surface…
Read MoreHigh Seas Shanty
What would sailors do without a sea shantey or two? 3rd Assistant Engineer Vasile Tudoran entertained the science party and crew aboard the R/V Knorr with Romanian folk songs on Day…
Read MoreWHOI Goes to Washington
David Gallo, Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, addressed members of the U.S. House of Representatives at a reception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HOV…
Read MoreSpring Catch
Under the microscope are two female copepods of different species, caught on a spring 2014 cruise in the Chukchi Sea. The cruise, aboard the USCG icebreaker Healy, aimed to study…
Read MoreHow the Clam Garden Grows
In October 2013, Woods Hole Sea Grant–Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma (left) and a shellfish grower examined the growth of “blood arks” (Anadara ovalis), on Cape Cod, Mass.…
Read MoreSquid Nursery
The ocean is absorbing rising levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and becoming more acidic. How will that affect squid, a key animal in the marine food web? WHOI…
Read MoreNewsworthy Research
WHOI research associate Crystal Breier (second from left) showed a group of 2014 Ocean Science Journalism fellows the gamma well detector used to process samples of seawater for signs of…
Read MoreRainbow in the Morning, Gives Fair Warning
A morning rainbow appeared behind the research vessel Knorr’s stack during a 2013 expedition known as the DeepDOM cruise. An interdisciplinary team of scientists onboard studied the composition of dissolved organic…
Read MoreNavigating a Sea of Sound
The ocean is an increasingly noisy place. Sounds from shipping, oil and gas exploration, and other human activities are making it more difficult for marine mammals to hear. “Hearing is…
Read MoreGolden Opportunity
Onlookers on shore and at sea enjoyed a clear view of the Golden Gate Bridge during a recent R/V Atlantis transit. WHOI ships often make port calls in major cities,…
Read MoreBreaking Ice for Answers
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy pushes through sea ice in the Chukchi Sea during the Arctic Spring Cruise in May of 2014. Polar icebreakers are an important component to…
Read MoreTwilight’s Last Gleaming
A researcher takes a break to take in the sunset between CTD casts aboard the R/V Knorr this summer. Such casts, together with mooring deployments and RAFOS float launches, were a…
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