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The Wind Cube
WHOI scientist Anthony Kirincich (right) and Matthew Filippelli from AWS Truepower, Inc., install a Wind Cube device atop WHOI’s 76-foot Air-Sea Interaction Tower two miles off Martha’s Vineyard. […]
Read MoreWind Report
WHOI physical oceanographer Anthony Kirincich (right) shows local NPR reporter Brian Morris data from an instrument that uses lasers to measure wind speeds. The instrument, called a Wind Cube, […]
Read MoreClimbing High
WHOI physical oceanographer Anthony Kirincich climbs a ladder up the Air-Sea Interaction Tower at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MCVO). WHOI operates the MCVO, which collects and provides […]
Read MoreSoundscapes at Sea
WHOI biologists Aran Mooney and Laela Sayigh are leading a multi-year effort to study the “soundscape” of Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound—the proposed site of one of the country’s […]
Read MoreTremors of the deep sea
We can all imagine the devastation hurricanes bring ashore. Well it turns out that hurricanes could be just as devastating to denizens of the deep ocean.
Read MoreOceanography, Up Close
WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (center), MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Stephan Gallagher (right), and MIT undergraduate Elisabeth Boles examine a sample of seawater full of tiny plants and animals […]
Read MoreWhere Air and Sea Meet
A diver works under the Air-Sea Interaction Tower, part of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, while R/V Tioga waits a short distance away. Installed three kilometers offshore, the tower […]
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