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Hands On

May 21, 2013

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.…

OceanCubes

May 20, 2013

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…

A Buoy Goes to Sea

May 19, 2013

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…

Top of the World

May 18, 2013

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…

All Hands on Dock

May 17, 2013

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…

The Art of Science

May 16, 2013

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.…

Astronaut Meets Argonauts

May 15, 2013

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…

Moving Day

May 14, 2013

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…

Heavy Lifting

May 13, 2013

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…

First Computer at Sea

May 12, 2013

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…

Smooth as Silk

May 11, 2013

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…

Cold Water Bath

May 10, 2013

Jeff Pietro (left) and and WHOI scientist Fiamma Straneo prepare a mooring for deployment in a Greenland fjord in July 2012. Straneo and glaciologist Sarah Das led the trip, which…

Fukushima and the Ocean

May 9, 2013

WHOI researcher Steve Pike packed some of the 3 metric tons of seawater collected during a 2011 cruise to study the spread, fate, and impacts of radionuclides released from the…

Radiation Health Risks

May 8, 2013

Heavy Load

A shipyard rigger (left) joins Ronnie Whims (center) and Patrick Hennessy of the R/V Atlantis to observe a test of the ship’s new A-frame (not visible). Atlantis is the support ship…

Too Big for its Stomach?

May 7, 2013

Liz Drenkard, a student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies how nutrition affects corals’ responses to ocean acidification. Here, she photographed coral polyps under a microscope, one of them enjoying…

A Fine Touch

May 6, 2013

Technician Jefferson Grau daubs blue dye around the inside of holes on a viewport mounting rim that will be part of the newly rebuilt Alvin submarine. The dye will allow…

One Long Core

May 5, 2013

Researchers and crew aboard the WHOI research vessel Knorr tested a new long corer system for the first time in 2007. The WHOI long corer, developed by Jim Broda and…

Are They What They Eat?

May 4, 2013

A three-week-old coral polyp (left), and its delicate skeleton (right) help MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Liz Drenkard study the way corals respond to increasing ocean acidification, which can impede their…

Got Your Back

May 3, 2013

A pilot whale sports a temporary electronic tag during a 2012 expedition in the Straight of Gibraltar. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Nicholas Macfarlane, working with postdoctoral fellow Frants Jensen, placed the…