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To Stem Red Tides
WHOI researcher Dave Kulis and Pete Lyons, a guest student from Northeastern University (in boat), place a Lexan box into Salt Pond in Eastham, Mass. The box, crafted by Damon Gayer…
Read MoreBringing in the Catch
Marine biologist Hannes Baumann (far right) from State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook prepares to get a line on a Methot net from the stern of the research…
Read MoreA Fitting Tribute
Jim Valdes holds a float that was deployed on a recent sampling mission to Line W across the Gulf Stream and Deep Western Boundary Current. The float contains the ashes…
Read MoreA Visit from Senator Brown
U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) listens while Vice President for Marine Operations, Rob Munier (right) explains the depth and breadth of WHOI’s involvement in response to the Deep Water Horizon…
Read MoreLearn More About OOI
In May, a panel of nearly 150 leaders of large research infrastructure programs visited WHOI for the Annual Review Meeting of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). On Sept. 17 in…
Read MoreStretch Test
WHOI mooring specialists routinely test mooring components before deploying them in the ocean. In July, mooring engineers Jeff Pietro and Jim Ryder tested one component—an ultra-stretchy rubber hose, sometimes called…
Read MoreResearch Road Trip
By Bryan James, Ken Kostel :: Originally published online September 14, 2011
Read MoreCold Feet
Photographer Rachel Fletcher, currently on board the Knorr with WHOI’s Robert Pickart, recently took this picture of kittiwakes on an iceberg off the coast of Greenland. Pickart is leading the…
Read MoreBig Damage From Little Squirts
Invasive sea squirts establish themselves in tidal areas, crowd out native species in their path, and pose a threat to protected species of eelgrass. WHOI biologist Mary Carman (at right) explains…
Read MoreStar Light, Start Bright
William McLean, mate on the Sea Education Association’s SSV Corwith Cramer, teaches MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) students celestial navigation using a sextant during the annual Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Every year, admitted…
Read MoreIf Only It Would Last
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreA Good Day’s Work
Steve Lambert, John Kemp, Rick Krishfield, and Jeff Pietro (l-r) of WHOI pause after successfully deploying an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) in an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea in August…
Read MoreThrough the Mist
On a foggy August day off the coast of Greenland, photographer Rachel Fletcher took a ride in one of R/V Knorr‘s small boats (also known as an RHIB) to photograph…
Read MoreSoaring Over the Bounding Main
On numerous voyages, WHOI physical oceanographer Phil Richardson had marveled at albatrosses’ ability to soar into high winds and remain aloft seemingly forever without ever flapping their wings. A sailor…
Read MoreOcean Acidification’s Natural Laboratory
Research associate Kathryn A. Rose preserves coral samples at the University of Panama’s NAOS laboratory during a expedition to the Gulf of Panama’s Pearl Islands in June 2011. Rose’s work…
Read MoreLost and Found
In 2001, WHOI scientist Robert Beardsley (far right) and engineers, Sub-Surface Mooring Operations Group head Scott Worrilow (steadying float), Ryan Schrawder (blue hardhat) and Jim Ryder (blue jacket), placed six…
Read MoreReach for it
Performing a tricky maneuver in rising seas during Alvin‘s recovery to R/V Atlantis, swimmers Dave Walter and Allison Heater reach for the hoisting line from the ship’s A-frame; the two…
Read MoreShining Rivers
From the air, the Fraser River Delta and the Straight of Georgia near Vancouver, Canada, reflect the evening sun, with the Coast Range mountains in the background right. WHOI chemist…
Read MoreHearing from the Experts
In June, WHOI senior scientist Don Anderson (third from left), Director of the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region, and other expert witnesses testified before the the House Subcommittee…
Read MoreFirst Light
Researcher Emily Peacock took this image of an icy sunrise partway through a 65-day Antarctic research cruise aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, part of a program studying Climate Variability…
Read MoreThe Calm Before the Storm
Postdoctoral scholar Peter van Hengstum of the Coastal Systems Group prepares to deploy sediment traps in Oyster Pond near WHOI’s Quissett Campus. A group of researchers and students, led by…
Read MoreRainy Day Tour
Gusty winds and rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of visitors waiting to tour the R/V Knorr at the WHOI dock on August 7, 2011. More than 750 people came…
Read MoreSeaBED Away
WHOI Scientist Hanumant Singh (left) and graduate student Clayton Kunz steady a SeaBED autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as it is hoisted above the deck of the icebreaker Oden during the…
Read MoreThe Wake of Another Storm
The Water Street drawbridge was carried away by a high tide during the hurricane of 1938. It was more than a year before cars could use the street again, but…
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