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Reeling In

Reeling In

WHOI senior engineering assistant Jim Ryder (left) and senior research assistant Dave Dubois recover an ocean-bottom seismometer onto R/V Marcus Langseth in early 2012. The instrument was part of a…

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Bergs at Dawn

Bergs at Dawn

Heading south after a full week spent crossing from Australia to Antarctica, Peter Kimball awoke to the sight of icebergs all around the ship, and took this photo just after…

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Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader

Before a 2009 research expedition that departed from Grand Cayman Island, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Jill McDermott spent a day swimming and snorkeling, when she spotted these turtles, the smallest…

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Here Comes SID

Here Comes SID

Postdoctoral fellow Bill Orsi and microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb assemble the SID-ISMS (Submerged Incubation Device-In Situ Microbial Sampler) in preparation for their cruise to the Mediterranean Sea in late 2010. They…

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Exploring Acidification

Exploring Acidification

Liz Drenkard, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program student assists participants of the Cambridge Science Festival in an activity that illustrates how ocean acidification affects the availability of the molecular “building blocks” corals…

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Spare Part

Spare Part

R/V Tioga first mate Ian Hanley (left) and senior engineering assistant Jim Dunn prepare a hydrophone buoy for deployment on the stern of Tioga in March. The buoy is part…

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A Penetrating Task

A Penetrating Task

Research associate Alexi Shalapyonok, mechanic Brian Durante, and engineer Hugh Popenoe prepare to seal a pressure chamber they are using to test a penetrator that will become part of the…

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Arts and Sciences

Arts and Sciences

The Synergy project at the Museum of Science in Boston until June 2 highlights works of art created by artists paired with ocean scientists. Anastasia Azure collaborated with WHOI oceanographer Larry…

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Tank Testing

Tank Testing

Doug Mendes (left) and Brian Pepin inspect one of Alvin‘s eight ballast tanks during the continuing overhaul and upgrade of the human-occupied vehicle. They were looking for any signs of…

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Home in the Cold

Home in the Cold

WHOI researchers called the edge of a Greenland glacier home for seven weeks during a 2008 expedition funded by the WHOI Arctic Research Initiative. Maya Bhatia and colleagues revealed in Nature…

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Underwater Lab

Underwater Lab

Scientist Konstantinos Kormas from the University of Thessaly, technician Ellen Roosen (foreground), and SSSG tech Allison Heater recover a Deep SID instrument during a Dive & Discover cruise in the…

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Work in Progress

Work in Progress

Sean Kelly (left), Justin Fujii (foreground), and Hannah Baker performed a series of tests with the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry on the WHOI dock in February. Engineers and technicians…

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Clean Sweep

Clean Sweep

It took about 400 gallons of primer and paint to spiffy up two WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis and Knorr,  during several weeks of ship maintenance in 2012 in Charleston, South…

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Tag, You’re It

Tag, You're It

WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore recently traveled to New Zealand to study the sperm whales off the coast of the Kaikoura Peninsula. The team he assembled…

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All Aboard

All Aboard

Postdoctoral scholar Liz Douglass (left) and chief scientist Ruth Curry recover a CTD  rosette during a cruise aboard RV Knorr in the North Atlantic in 2011. The cruise was part…

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Welcome Home

Welcome Home

Kurt Uetz, project manager for the upgrade of the deep submergence vehicle Alvin, snaps a picture of the sub’s brand-new personnel sphere as it arrives in Woods Hole in June…

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Lulu of a Test

Lulu of a Test

Until the early 1980s, the 105-foot catamaran Lulu served as the support vessel for the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Here, engineers use a pedestal crane on the WHOI pier to…

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Southbound Again

Southbound Again

R/V Knorr passed the Steamship Authority freight vessel Sankaty in Woods Hole Channel on its way to the port of Cape Town, South Africa, in February 2013. Although it was…

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Synergistic Effects

Synergistic Effects

Scientist Ellie Bors (left) and artist Laurie Kaplowitz stand in a gallery at the Museum of Science in Boston before a triptych of wall-length paintings they collaborated to create. The…

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Measure Twice, Cut Once

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Joe Harvey carefully measures a large piece of syntactic foam before cutting it. The foam, which is made of tiny glass bubbles embedded in epoxy, provides buoyancy for the human…

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All Hands

All Hands

On April 10, 1963, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher was undergoing sea trials 200 miles east of Cape Cod when it sent a message indicating that it was experiencing…

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Protist Pro

Protist Pro

WHOI microbiologist Virginia Edgcomb works on the Submersible Incubation Device (SID), a robotic instrument designed to collect, incubate, and preserve samples of microbes in the ocean. Scientist Craig Taylor and…

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REMUS SharkCam: The Hunter and the Hunted

shark cam

In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the…

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Eyes on Coral

Eyes on Coral

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Elizabeth Drenkard examines skeletons grown by 3-week old corals in a culture experiment conducted at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Drenkard is working with WHOI…

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