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The True Bosun

The True Bosun

What happens on the deck and over the side of a research vessel happens under the watchful eyes of the bosun. Ever since R/V Atlantis sailed on its maiden voyage…

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Women’s History Month at WHOI

Women's History Month at WHOI

Students Unlike Kathy Burns‘ class of 1975, the 2010 graduates of the MIT-WHOI Joint program reflect current trends in the demographics of graduate students at the Institution, with women accounting…

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Women’s History Month at WHOI

Women's History Month at WHOI

Students After the MIT-WHOI Joint Program was formed in 1968, it took 2 years for the first female students to arrive. Kathy Burns came to Woods Hole in 1970 and…

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Profiles in Currents

Profiles in Currents

Kjetil Vaage (blue hat), from the University of Bergen, Norway and a former student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, helps prepare a moored profiler for deployment north of Fram Strait…

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Noble Undertaking

Noble Undertaking

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Cara Manning collects a water sample for noble gas analysis aboard the R/V Tioga in December 2012. Cara and her advisor, Rachel Stanley, installed a portable noble…

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A Strong Stomach

A Strong Stomach

WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield (left) aboard WHOI’s first research ship Atlantis, was fond of telling this story about the second day of his first Atlantis cruise: “[T]here was a pretty…

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The River Styx?

The River Styx?

WHOI researchers Paul Henderson (left) and Matt Charette prepare to enter a cenote, or natural sinkhole, near Puerto Morelos, Mexico. The limestone bedrock in this region is very porous, with…

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Women’s History Month at WHOI

Women's History Month at WHOI

Mentors & Mentees MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jill McDermott learned about hydrothermal vent chemistry from one of the masters—she was one of Karen Von Damm’s last students. McDermott recalled…

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Women’s History Month at WHOI

Women's History Month at WHOI

Mentors & Mentees Former University of New Hampshire professor Karen Von Damm (shown here after an Alvin dive) graduated from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in 1984, a time when few…

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Which Way is Up?

Which Way is Up?

Most oceanographic survey instruments look down at the seafloor. On a recent trip to the Southern Ocean, though, members of Hanu Singh’s lab equipped one of their SeaBED vehicles to…

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Eat My Dust

Eat My Dust

Vic Miller pulls an exhaust duct into place to vacuum up the resin dust left after he and fellow mechanic Joe Harvey sanded a large piece of syntactic foam. The…

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Studying Distant Rivers Locally

Studying Distant Rivers Locally

People living near rivers can become “citizen scientists” to aid research focusing on Earth’s river systems in a time of changing climate. Leaders of the Global Rivers Observatory Project—WHOI chemist…

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A Turn at the Winch

A Turn at the Winch

WHOI research specialist Daniel Torres, dressed for cold even in August, watches wire pay out from a winch to deploy a mooring in the ocean off Norway. Torres was aboard…

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After the Storm

After the Storm

Notice the cleanly plowed pier next to WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis after the February blizzard that crippled much of New England. “The Facilities & Services team at WHOI are often…

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Crystal Clear

Crystal Clear

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Tom DeCarlo holds a vial containing aragonite, a crystal form of calcium carbonate, the mineral that reef-building corals use to build their skeletons. To make aragonite,…

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A Whale Rises

A Whale Rises

On a 2012 research cruise in Antarctica, WHOI postdoctoral scientist Peter Kimball helped use the robotic vehicle Jaguar to map the underside of the ice. But the trip was memorable…

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Great Ocean Conveyor

A schematic of the ocean circulation system, often called the Great Ocean Conveyor, that transports heat throughout the world oceans. Red arrows indicate warm surface currents. Blue arrows indicate deep…

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Now You See Them…

Now You See Them...

WHOI post-doctoral scholar Ben Harden waits to capture a dramatic moment at sea: A mooring anchor, released off the stern of the British research ship James Clark Ross, sinks to…

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Enduring Nemo

Enduring Nemo

When the Blizzard Nemo blew through New England on February 9, 2013, much of Cape Cod, including the town of Falmouth and parts of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lost power…

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Fancy Seeing You Here

Fancy Seeing You Here

On any given day, WHOI’s research vessels are more likely to be in different oceans than in the same port. But this was one of those rare days. On June…

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Seismic Whale Detector

Seismic Whale Detector

This “sunburst” pattern shows the calls of one or more fin whales, recorded over a 5-hour period by an underwater microphone that had been deployed to detect landslides, volcanoes, and…

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Barnacles in Bulk

Barnacles in Bulk

The same organisms that have plagued mariners for thousands of years have also been a problem for oceanographers deploying moored instruments. Here, barnacles, algae, and other organisms cover the bottom…

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Perfect Fit

Perfect Fit

In December, two sections of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, were joined together in the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Wash. The ship is being constructed in 13…

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Ocean in Miniature

Ocean in Miniature

WHOI engineer Bob Tavares headed up to the roof of the Clark South building recently to check on an Argo SOLO-I float deployed in the 10-meter test well. The Argo…

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