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Cameron Partners with WHOI
Originally published online May 26, 2013
Read MoreA Capitol Sub
In March 2012, explorer and filmmaker James Cameron piloted his custom-designed and -built submersible DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to the deepest spot in the ocean—Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. He recently…
Read MoreHalo Below
A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Martha’s…
Read MoreRescue Squad
The scientific research team led by senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy and Raytheon Polar Services Corp. support staff pose on the pack ice in front of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer…
Read MorePressure Test
More than 100 employees took part in various aspects of the two-year project to overhaul and upgrade the submersible Alvin. They included engineer Griffith Outlaw, seen here preparing a component…
Read MoreThe Thinker
In May 2013, Alexi Shalapyonok, Rob Olson, and Matthew Gould (left to right) readied a tool called a FlowCytobot for deployment at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory in Vineyard Sound.…
Read MoreOceans of Protein
WHOI marine chemist Mak Saito has adapted an approach used in biomedical research to study marine organisms: proteomics. He has developed new techniques to detect and measure the proteins that…
Read MoreWorld Ocean Day 2013
Every year on June 8, we celebrate World Oceans Day, a day to reflect on the importance of the global ocean in daily life and in the life of our…
Read MoreClass of 2013
On June 5, WHOI hosted a reception to honor the 2013 class of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Ten of the 32 graduates this year were able to attend: (back row,…
Read MoreA Big Lift
Alvin Expedition Leader Bruce Strickrott has seen a few strange creatures at the bottom of the sea: octopi, tubeworms, Yeti crabs. He’s even had a newly discovered species of hagfish…
Read MoreSummer Resident
Adélie penguins are one of the three brush-tail penguin species that live exclusively on and around Antarctica. Individuals return to the same breeding colony every year to mate and hatch…
Read MoreHeroes at Sea
In November, 2011, while in the Mediterranean Sea on a Dive & Discover research mission, R/V Atlantis rescued 93 men from a foundering fishing boat. The ship’s crew and ROV…
Read MoreScience in Bloom
The Synergy Project paired scientists and artists to create science-inspired works of art. WHOI biologist Elizabeth Halliday (right) collaborated with Janine Wong, a graphic designer and book artist, to create…
Read MoreWhale Calls
Biologist Mark Baumgartner recovers a robotic glider equipped with a WHOI-developed digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument after it found several endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine. Baumgartner wrote the…
Read More1000 Dives Young
In January 1980, the WHOI-operated submersible Alvin made its 1,000th dive to the seafloor during an expedition to the Galapagos Rift. To keep the submersible in prime condition, Alvin recently completed a…
Read MoreTwo for Sea
On Saturday, May 25, R/V Atlantis left Woods Hole for the Panama Canal and Astoria, Oregon, carrying the newly overhauled and upgraded submersible Alvin and accompanied by WHOI’s coastal research…
Read MoreFoam Meets Sphere
During the recent upgrade of the submersible Alvin, Bob McCabe (left) and Rod Catanach (center) carefully lowered a custom-built piece of syntactic foam onto the sub’s personnel sphere while Alvin Expedition…
Read MoreWeighty Matter
WHOI engineer Matthew Adams labels a mooring anchor that will be deployed later this year as part of the Ocean Observatory Initiative‘s Pioneer Array. The array is one of the…
Read MoreA Penetrating Task
Dexter Tan installed penetrators—the large metal lugs—to the hull of Alvin during the submersible’s recent overhaul and upgrade. The plastic tubes connected to the penetrators contain electrical and fiber-optic cables that…
Read MoreSound Management
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Max Kaplan finishes installing a DMON, a broadband digital acoustic recorder developed at WHOI, on a coral reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The device,…
Read MoreArt in Science
This year, after a visit with WHOI scientists, Falmouth High School senior Tyler Ragonese crafted a ceramic sea star that he attached to a bowl. This spring the finished product, and…
Read MoreBusiness After Hours
In March, members and guests of the Falmouth, Mass., Chamber of Commerce met at WHOI’s Ocean Science Discovery Center to network and learn about the Institution. The Center’s director Kathy…
Read MoreHome and Away
On May 13, 2013, the overhaul and upgrade of the submersible Alvin took a giant leap towards completion when the sub was transferred from the WHOI dock back to its…
Read MoreEvery Detail Important
Deep submergence vehicle pilot Bob Waters has years of experience with both the submersible Alvin and the remotely-operated vehicle Jason. During the Alvin upgrade and reassembly he maintained the main…
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