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Under Wraps
Scott Worrilow, former supervisor of the Sub-surface Mooring Operations Group, wraps a protective canvas “diaper” around the junction between two lengths of wire rope during the final Line W cruise in…
Read MoreCrab Cycle
When Joanna Gyory, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program student, visited the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama, one rainfall determined her thesis project. Just days after the year’s first rain, thousands of…
Read MoreCorals and Climate
Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (left) and marine chemist Konrad Hughen drill cores from a colony of the coral Porites lobata in the Federated States of Micronesia. In the foreground, sections…
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Hooking the Catch
WHOI guest student Alessandro Silvano attaches a tag line to the frame of a CTD sensor during the final Line W cruise aboard the RV Knorr in May. For the…
Read MoreOverseeing the Observatory
Physical oceanographer Al Plueddemann stands in the shadow of a surface buoy aboard the R/V Knorr in April 2014. The buoy serves as flotation for a surface mooring in the…
Read MoreAbout AIVL
Originally published online August 1, 2010
Read MoreSecuring the Base
WHOI engineer John Kemp (left) and a member of the R/V Knorr crew prepare the base of a coastal high power surface mooring (CHPSM) for deployment on the continental slope 80 miles…
Read MoreLife on Ice
Just as a rainstorm in the desert can cause the landscape to explode with wildflowers, the annual sea ice melt can cause phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean to bloom. The…
Read MoreSounding the Bottom
One of the most powerful tools oceanographers use to map the bottom of the ocean is multibeam sonar, which uses sound waves to reveal the outline and surface characteristics of…
Read MoreScience Scaffolding
Dongsha Atoll is a remote coral reef ecosystem in the South China Sea that is about two meters below sea level. With no solid ground from which to work, researchers…
Read MoreMagnetic History
Clindor Cacho, a crewmember on R/V Knorr handles a tag line to steady the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry while recovering the vehicle in 2013 near Barbados. Sentry carried a…
Read MoreRobotic Reef
Katie Shamberger, assistant professor at Texas A&M University, checks the Remote Access Sampler (RAS) on Dongsha Atoll, a coral reef ecosystem in the South China Sea. The RAS is a…
Read MoreA Weighty Moment
WHOI engineer Don Peters, right, and Pat Hickey, former head of the Alvin Operations Group, watched as the newly upgraded submersible was weighed in the WHOI Highbay in January 2013.…
Read MoreBongo Solo
Bongo nets are a staple of biological oceanographers who study zooplankton. Named for their paired construction, the bongo net actually consists of two nets, one with a courser weave to…
Read MoreRoad to Recovery
Crew members of R/V Atlantis prepare to head out in the Avon, a tender boat, to meet the human occupied submersible Alvin after a day-long dive to the seafloor. When…
Read MoreInto the Sunset
In May 2013, R/V Knorr sailed through a spectacular sunset on the western Atlantic Ocean near the equator. On the trip, Knorr took a group of scientists from WHOI and…
Read MoreGoing Home
Human occupied vehicle Alvin rests on the surface after a dive to the seafloor as its support ship, R/V Atlantis, stands by to tow it in and bring it back…
Read MoreSub With a View
Alvin pilot Mike Skowronski (center) and pilot-in-training Jefferson Grau (left) peer out onto the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico during the recent Alvin Science Verification Cruise. One of the…
Read MoreReaching For Answers
ROV Jason reaches its manipulator arm into a diffuse hydrothermal flow known as Shrimp Gulley on the Mid Cayman Rise. In January 2012, WHOI geologist Chris German led a team…
Read MoreApply Carefully
WHOI Engineer Rod Catanach positions a block of syntactic foam above the titanium personnel sphere of the Alvin submersible during its recent overhaul and upgrade, which included the addition of…
Read MoreSpecial Deliveries
WHOI research assistant Steve Pike unpacks some of the first water samples collected as part of a citizen-science initiative started by chemist Ken Buesseler to track the spread of radiation…
Read More50 Years Strong
On February 11, WHOI received an award of excellence from the Marine Technology Society (MTS) during the Underwater Intervention conference in New Orleans for 50 years of operating Alvin. The…
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