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World Traveler
This 1965 photo shows the stern of R/V Atlantis II, with its name spelled out in the Japanese phonetic alphabet katakana, during a stop by the ship in Tokyo. The…
Read MoreSeagoing Science Fellow
In September 2011, Bob Weller prepared to depart the WHOI dock on R/V Oceanus, on a cruise to deploy a crucial test buoy as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative.…
Read MoreOne Fine Fellow
Senior Scientist Lloyd Keigwin, whose research focuses on climate and oceanographic change based on studies of deep-sea sediments, is among 14 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement…
Read MoreWhale Heads and Tales
Scientists need to get inside the heads of whales to learn how they sense sound. Even before they study a whale’s ears, scientists examine its anatomy to get a sense…
Read MoreTraveling Light
WHOI research technician Steve Pike is shown packing water samples on board the R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa in June 2011 off the northeast coast of Japan. Pike was part of an international…
Read MoreSetting the Right Course
Captain Arthur Dickson Colburn examined a gyrocompass repeater mounted on the deck of the original research vessel Atlantis in the 1950s. The repeater was connected to the main compass inside the…
Read MoreA Helping Hand
Radio journalist Ed Ronco (seated) tries his hand at controlling the Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle’s manipulator arm while Andy Bowen (standing, right), director of the National Deep Submergence Facility,…
Read MoreFancy Meeting You Here
On February 5, R/V Oceanus stopped on the Pacific side of the Panamal Canal for fuel while transiting from Woods Hole to the West Coast to begin its new life…
Read MoreLine Across the Denmark Strait
A team from R/V Knorr prepares to deploy a mooring in the Denmark Strait in August 2011. The instruments on the mooring will help measure water flowing through the strait…
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Sands of Deception
Chinstrap penguins from the world’s largest colony of the birds stand on the black sand of Deception Island, a volcanic island off West Antarctica. WHOI scientist Scott Doney traveled there…
Read MoreA Rare Sight
The research vessel Knorr is rarely seen at its home port of Woods Hole, but one January evening found it tied up at the dock during a routine maintenance stop.…
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Measuring the Invisible
Research Associate Crystal Breier inserts a prepared sample into a lead-lined gamma well detector. The specialized instrument amplifies and measures energy released by the decay of radioactive isotopes, in this…
Read MoreBringing in the Catch
Aboard R/V Oceanus off Cape Hatteras, N.C., Bosun Clindor Cacho (facing), engineers Scott Worrilow (back left) and Brian Hogue (foreground), research specialist Steve Mangannini (back right) and crew member Chris…
Read MoreTracking Harmful Algae
WHOI researcher Bruce Keafer shows a group of science writers in the 2011 Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP). Scientists are using the instrument to detect…
Read MoreWhales Get the Bends
Scuba divers can get sick ascending too quickly from a deep dive. But can whales? To find out, biologist Michael Moore and colleagues at WHOI looked closely at a lesion in the…
Read MoreMore than Skin Deep
WHOI’s Aran Mooney (left) and Julie Arruda (middle) and Iliana Ruiz-Cooley (right) from NOAA’s Protected Resource Division in San Diego prepare a Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) for a a CT scan at…
Read MorePatience Rewarded
On November 7, 2011, WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe was on board the National Science Foundation research vessel Laurence M. Gould as the ship approached the dock at the Palmer Station…
Read MoreWhat Makes You Sick?
The Sea’s Bounty
A collection of copepods fills a specimen dish to be identified and counted. Scientists on board the research vessel Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa collected the sample off the northeast coast of Japan in…
Read MoreLaunching the Video Plankton Recorder
The Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) is an underwater video microscope system that that takes images of plankton and particulate matter as small as 50 microns and up to a few…
Read MoreOut of Antarctica
Livingston Island in the South Shetlands rises sharply in front of the L.M. Gould’s bow in December 2011 after the ship departs Palmer Station, the U.S. research station on the…
Read MoreSurvival Suits You
The science crew on board any UNOLS (University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System) research vessel spends part of the first day of every cruise in safety briefings and drills. One activity involves…
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