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First of Many Pieces

First of Many Pieces

On August 17, 2012, senior officials from WHOI joined the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) at a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the newest ocean research…

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Quick Fix

Quick Fix

Engineer Kyle Covert, who works on the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr, made modifications to a rock dredge during a month-long cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge this spring. Dredges act like…

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Ready to Go

Ready to Go

WHOI technician Steve Murphy prepares a mooring to be lifted off the deck of the British icebreaker James Clark Ross into the water in August. Murphy was part in one of…

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Smooth Sailing

Smooth Sailing

In August 2012, the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy sailed through unusually light sea ice across Hanna Shoal in the norhtern Chukchi Sea. The cruise was the first in the…

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Tasting Salt

Tasting Salt

WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni inspected one of several wave gliders on the deck of R/V Knorr recently. These three will be deployed later this month during the NASA-sponsored SPURS expedition…

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Refitting a Stalwart

Refitting a Stalwart

In 1989, the 20-year-old WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr went through maintenance and upgrades at a shipyard in Amelie, Louisiana. During the refit (shown here), the vessel was cut in half and…

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Target Practice

Target Practice

At sea, technicians and crew have to be ready for anything—from fixing broken scientific instruments to keeping the science party and other mariners safe under any circumstances. Here, Reggie Proctor…

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A Titanic Task

A Titanic Task

William Lange (right), director of the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory at WHOI, Dave Conlin (center), chief of the National Parks Service’s Submerged Resources Center, and James Delgado (left), director…

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If Found

If Found

In the second of two cruises to study the movement of dense water flowing through the Denmark Strait, WHOI oceanographer Bob Pickart returned to the East Greenland coast this summer…

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Emperor Penguins & Climate Change

Emperor Penguins & Climate Change

At nearly four feet tall, the emperor penguin is Antarctica’s largest sea bird—and one of the continent’s most iconic animals. Unlike other sea birds, emperor penguins breed and raise their…

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Dynamite Recovery

Dynamite Recovery

Jeff Pietro, Scott Worrilow, Chief Scientist Ruth Curry, and an R/V Atlantic Explorer crew member (left to right) recover a mooring line to the fantail of the ship in June.…

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Up the River

Up the River

Sylvia Cole, a postdoctoral investigator in the Physical Oceanography Department, deploys a temperature sensor in Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass., as an instructor in the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP). Sponsored…

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Core Question

Core Question

WHOI scientist Anne Cohen and Summer Student Fellow Chris Kelly study the core of a coral taken in Palau, a coral reef archipelago located in the far western tropical Pacific. For…

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Collect the Dots

Collect the Dots

Hydrothermal vents three miles down support a variety of life based on chemical energy. This image from a 2012 expedition to the Mid-Cayman Rise led by geochemist Chris German shows…

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A Changing Ocean

A Changing Ocean

In early August, WHOI marine chemist Sarah Cooley spoke at a public event on ocean acidification, which she calls “a side effect of industrialization.”  As the atmospheric concentration of carbon…

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Working Under Ice

Working Under Ice

To work under Arctic ice and in rough seas, researchers rely on bright, buoyant, and tough equipment. In fall 2011, crew and researchers aboard the United States Coast Guard icebreaker…

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Eyes in the Deep

Eyes in the Deep

Norman Vine, Jonathan Howland, Hugh Popenoe (left to right), and Scott Gallager (not pictured) use a test tank in Gallager’s lab at WHOI’s Environmental Systems Laboratory in May to calibrate the…

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Quick Hands, Light Work

Quick Hands, Light Work

WHOI biologist Amy Maas uses a quick, steady hand to pick out zooplankton called pteropods from a sloshing tray aboard a moving ship, not an easy task as they are only…

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Corals in a Warming Ocean

Corals in a Warming Ocean

Reef-building corals contain algae cells in their tissues that nourish them and give them their distinctive color. High water temperatures cause corals to release their algae and lose their color,…

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Synchronized Floating

Synchronized Floating

Instructor Joe Mokry (left) of Ocean Rescue Systems International teaches students in a boat safety course at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution strategies for staying alive should they ever have to…

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Hands-on Climate

Hands-on Climate

Participants at a WHOI-sponsored event on ocean acidification in August examined the skeleton of a two-week-old coral grown by MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Liz Drenkard (right) for her climate change research.…

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The Ocean’s Acid Test

The Ocean's Acid Test

In early August, WHOI marine biogeochemist Scott Doney spoke at a public event on ocean acidification, a problem arising from the burning of fossil fuels and the subsequent increase in…

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Furry Walls

Furry Walls

In January 2012, an international research group aboard R/V Atlantis completed an expedition to study the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents, at the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean. The group,…

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