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Crab Cycle

Crab 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…

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Corals and Climate

Corals 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

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…

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Overseeing the Observatory

Overseeing 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…

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Securing the Base

Securing 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…

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Life on Ice

Life 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…

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Sounding the Bottom

Sounding 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…

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Science Scaffolding

Science 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…

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Magnetic History

Magnetic 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…

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Robotic Reef

Robotic 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…

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A Weighty Moment

A 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.…

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Bongo Solo

Bongo 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…

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Road to Recovery

Road 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…

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Into the Sunset

Into 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…

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Going Home

Going 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…

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Sub With a View

Sub 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…

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Reaching For Answers

Reaching 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…

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Apply Carefully

Apply 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…

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Special Deliveries

Special 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…

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50 Years Strong

50 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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New Chief

New Chief

WHOI geologist Adam Soule reviews images shot by a deep-sea time-lapse camera, nicknamed “ElevatorCam,” provided by the Multidisciplinary Instrumentation in Support of Oceanography (MISO) Facility during the Alvin Science Verification…

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