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Ready for Assembly

Ready for Assembly

Skilled fabricator/welders in the WHOI Mechanical Shop made these parts, which are ready to be assembled into a sturdy tripod that will hold an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). The…

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Hidden Treasure

Hidden Treasure

WHOI climate scientist Konrad Hughen and his team located a large Porites lobata coral with the help of local fishermen near the village of Falalis in Micronesia. Hughen’s ship had passed over the…

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Time for a Dip

Time for a Dip

Two REMUS 600s wait to take a dip off the WHOI dock. These versatile autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) feature a modular design that can be adapted to handle a variety…

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Young Sea Ice In Woods Hole

Young Sea Ice In Woods Hole

The R/V Sikuliaq stopped at WHOI’s dock on its way from Wisconsin, where it was built, to its home port of Seward, Alaska. Capable of breaking ice up to 2.5…

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River Detectives

River Detectives

Canada’s Fraser River transports more than water—it also transports clues that can help scientists understand the global carbon cycle. As the river winds from the Rocky Mountains and Coast Range…

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Alvin and the Wet Wi-Fi

Alvin and the Wet Wi-Fi

Sound has traditionally been the communications medium of choice in the ocean, but engineers at WHOI, including Norm Farr (pictured) developed an underwater “optical modem” that uses light to transmit…

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Chasing Great Whites

Chasing Great Whites

Engineer Amy Kukulya introduced the REMUS SharkCam at a public event in 2013 describing WHOI’s research on sharks and seals. he Discovery Channel commissioned the Oceanographic Systems Lab to develop…

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Pre-flight Check

Pre-flight Check

Physical oceanographer Amy Bower reviewed preparations on R/V Knorr recently before an 80-day in the sub-polar North Atlantic to research ocean currents in the region. Bower is interested in Earth’s…

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Yellowfin REMUS

Yellowfin REMUS

WHOI engineer Daniel Bogorff launches a REMUS 6000 off of the Institution’s dock in Woods Hole’s Great Harbor. Equipped with high-resolution bathymetric scanning technology and an extended-life battery pack, the…

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Chilly Changes

Chilly Changes

During a 2011 research cruise from Chile to the Southern Ocean aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould, scientists observed flocks of Gentoo penguins on small ice floes near the Antarctic…

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U Turn

U Turn

It’s a kayak without a passenger, but not without a mission. JetYak is an autonomous, 11-foot,  gas-powered kayak developed by WHOI oceanographer Peter Traykovski, Hanu Singh, and colleagues for preprogrammed missions…

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How AUVs Work

How AUVs Work

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) like WHOI’s REMUS, Sentry (pictured), and SeaBED are important tools used to explore the ocean. They are controlled by on-board computers and powered by internal batteries;…

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Road Trip

Road Trip

Bruce Sutphen (pictured) and other members of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER team worked at WHOI recently preparing the sub for transport to New York City over the weekend. On Monday, August…

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Right of Passage

Right of Passage

For decades, WHOI research vessels have taken advantage of a shortcut to Cape Cod Bay and waters further north by passing through the Cape Cod Canal. Here, the research vessel…

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Eyes of a Scientist

Eyes of a Scientist

Physical oceanographer Amy Bower, with her six-year-old guide dog, Abbie, introduced two speakers to students from the Perkins School for the Blind during their visit to the WHOI Exhibit Center earlier…

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Underway Again

Underway Again

On July 6, 2014, with the ganplank stowed, third mate Josh Woodrow (left) and able-bodied seaman Paul St. Onge, closed the bulwarks on R/V Knorr, as University of Miami mooring…

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Fish in a Barrel

Fish in a Barrel

WHOI scientist Hanu Singh watches as Amy Scott Murray (center) from the University of Aberdeen and Erica Fruh, from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle photograph a fish in…

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Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland

During a winter research cruise to the Labrador Sea in 1997, waves washing over the decks of the research vessel Knorr caused continual ice build-up. Scientists and crew on board…

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Sentry Swim Test

Sentry Swim Test

In April the AUV Sentry was tested in the water at the WHOI dock before being shipped to join R/V Atlantis and the submersible Alvin for research in the Gulf…

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Mapping Titanic

Bill Lange, Director of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Originally published online August 1, 2010

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Search for Life

Search for Life

The circulation of fluids up from the seafloor through hydrothermal vents provides chemical energy that sustains unique animals and habitats throughout the world’s oceans. The discovery of hydrothermal vent ecosystems…

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A Sharp Turn

A Sharp Turn

Scientists Amy Bower of WHOI and Susan Lozier of Duke University have used RAFOS floats to investigate the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), a deep current that hugs North America’s…

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Where the Wind Blows

Where the Wind Blows

The WHOI dock often hosts visiting research vessels from other institutions. In June 1985, Alcyone, research vessel of renowned ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, stopped over in Woods Hole, and the…

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