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Science in Bloom

Science 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…

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Whale Calls

Whale 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…

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1000 Dives Young

1000 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…

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Two for Sea

Two 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…

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Foam Meets Sphere

Foam 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…

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Weighty Matter

Weighty 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…

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A Penetrating Task

A 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…

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Sound Management

Sound 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,…

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Art in Science

Art 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…

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Business After Hours

Business 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…

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Home and Away

Home 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…

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Every Detail Important

Every 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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Buckets o’ Clams

Buckets o' Clams

WHOI scientists Dan McCorkle (pictured) and Anne Cohen, with colleagues James Widman and Lisa Milke from the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, grew larval surfclams (Spisula solidissima) under different levels…

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Hands On

Hands On

WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara, who is working with a team to upgrade the deep-sea submersible Alvin, uses a three-dimensional software design program to plan the arrangement of the vehicle’s pressure housings.…

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OceanCubes

OceanCubes

A team from WHOI led by Associate Scientist Scott Gallager and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) recently announced plans to install the first OceanCubes observatory in the…

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A Buoy Goes to Sea

A Buoy Goes to Sea

A brand-new surface mooring buoy is lifted by crane onto R/V Oceanus, on its way to a 2011 test deployment in the ocean south of Cape Cod. The prototype buoy…

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Top of the World

Top of the World

Summer at WHOI means college students on campus for the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship. In August 2012, Columbia University’s Sebastian Vivancos, a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental…

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All Hands on Dock

All Hands on Dock

It’s a longstanding tradition at WHOI that when a ship arrives or departs Woods Hole, folks come out to hail the ship and crew and lend a hand. On a…

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The Art of Science

The Art of Science

Last year, Falmouth High School art teacher Corine Adams (right) assigned junior Sarah Monteiro and her fellow students to make marine animal-inspired ceramics, which this spring were displayed at WHOI.…

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Astronaut Meets Argonauts

Astronaut Meets Argonauts

Up and down, East and West, and inner and outer space all met at WHOI May 6, 2013, when Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (left, in dark jacket) visited Woods Hole…

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Moving Day

Moving Day

Yesterday, May 13, the submersible Alvin achieved a major milestone in its extensive overhaul when it returned to the stern of its support ship, R/V Atlantis for the first time…

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Heavy Lifting

Heavy Lifting

A team of technicians, engineers, and pilots installs a block of syntactic foam around the personnel sphere of the upgraded Alvin submarine. Syntactic foam is composed of a matrix of…

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First Computer at Sea

First Computer at Sea

In 1961, WHOI scientist emeritus Carl Bowin was tasked with putting the first computer on a WHOI research ship. He initially rented computers because it was too expensive to buy…

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Smooth as Silk

Smooth as Silk

WHOI mechanic Vic Miller applies a final coat of paint to a large piece of syntactic foam that will be installed on the human-occupied submersible Alvin. The foam, which is…

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