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WHOI instructor Hovey Clifford (right) shows summer student fellows Maya Becker (Columbia University) and Jacob Forsyth (Bowdoin College) how to rinse down a sample of sediment collected with a grab…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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;…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…