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An Underwater Eruption
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason lands on the seafloor to retrieve a heat flow monitor during a 2015 expedition to explore an eruption at the Havre volcano off the…
Read MoreDressed for the Deep
WHOI engineer Molly Curran puts the finishing touches on the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry by re-attaching its freshly-cleaned, bright yellow “skins.” The vehicle was completing a maintenance period before…
Read MoreCold water corals
Scientists collected thousands of samples of cold-water corals living on the seafloor during three expeditions between 2003 and 2005 to the New England Seamounts, a chain of extinct underwater volcanoes,…
Read MoreSmall, Sensitive Sensor
Richard Camilli, a chemist and engineer in the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, builds cutting-edge instruments for sensing molecules in seawater. His miniature mass spectrometer “Gemini” (shown here)…
Read MoreTropical Sunset
Thomas Anthony operates the crane aboard R/V Melville during the 2005 Lau Basin expedition in the South Pacific. Five expeditions to the territorial waters of the Kingdom of Tonga are…
Read MoreThe Cable Guy
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason has had a storied career: it has located hydrothermal vent fields, captured footage of the deepest explosive erupting volcano, and rescued seismic equipment encased…
Read MoreGobbling Deep-sea Robot
Even while conducting research out in the Pacific Ocean, far from family and friends, it’s still Thanksgiving for U.S. scientists and crew members, and they always look for ways to…
Read MoreEndless Summer
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreWelcome to New York
In May 1997, the recently launched research vessel R/V Atlantis made its way into New York City during its first year of service. Atlantis continues to be operated by WHOI…
Read MoreTreading Water
The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry awaits recovery during the MESH (Mapping, Exploration, Sampling at Havre) research cruise in the spring of 2015. Capable of diving and surveying the seafloor at depths…
Read MoreLooking for New Lava
Bosun Wayne Bailey oversees the deployment of the WHOI TowCam, a specially designed digital camera system that photographs the seafloor as it is towed a few meters above the ocean bottom…
Read MoreStill Sailing
The original remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason waits for a 1991 cruise aboard the submarine support vessel Betty Chouest as Steve Lerner (facing camera) and Sandipa Singh of the Deep…
Read MoreSeismic Whale Detector
This “sunburst” pattern shows the calls of one or more fin whales, recorded over a 5-hour period by an underwater microphone that had been deployed to detect landslides, volcanoes, and…
Read MoreOil and Water
Oil spills aren’t pretty, but this one is perfectly natural. WHOI scientist Chris Reddy and colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been studying areas off the Santa…
Read MoreIf Only It Would Last
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreA fish-eye lens view
In this fish-eye lens view, the icebreaker Oden is headed north into what will be thicker ice during a 2007 expedition to the Arctic Seafloor. At the top of the…
Read MoreA decidedly defensive stance
Seamounts are underwater mountains found throughout the global ocean. Many seamounts are extinct volcanoes that once erupted from seafloor vents, with lava flows building thousands of meters up from the…
Read MoreCooking up marine asphalt
Remnants of natural explosions of oil from the seafloor (asphalt volcanoes) are now being observed. Marine chemist and Coastal Institute director Chris Reddy and Dave Valentine of University of California,…
Read MoreBeneath the Arctic sun – far beneath
WHOI engineer John Kemp sends the sampling camera instrument Camper off on a solitary mission to the deep Arctic Ocean floor, from the Swedish icebreaker Oden. During the 2007 expedition…
Read MorePolar Slurpee
A plexi-glass reservoir holds orange microbial material slurped up by the vacuum sampler on the towed vehicle Camper, as well as tiny black shards of volcanic glass that covered large…
Read MoreYellow Alert
On May 6, 2007, WHOI researchers and technicians deployed the Real Time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) off the coast of Grenada. RTOSS is part of a project to develop new…
Read MoreYellow Submarine Volcano Watcher
Will Ostrom, Keith von der Heydt, and Neil McPhee (from left to right) prepare to lower and test the base of the Real-time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) buoy off the…
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