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Sea-Space Connection
In 1986 when the shuttle orbiter Atlantis flew its second mission, WHOI Director John H. Steele was among those invited to witness the nighttime launch, because the shuttle was named…
Read MoreMorning in the Bering Sea
During the International Polar year (2007-2009), biologist Carin Ashjian led a cruise to Bering Sea with a research team studying how climate change is affecting the Arctic’s ocean ecosystem, from…
Read MoreBear Below!
WHOI’s Acoustic Communications group provided support for the Navy’s 2011 Arctic Submarine Laboratory “ICEX” exercises north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Engineer Peter Koski deployed acoustic recorders in 24-inch Pelican cases…
Read MoreClassroom at Sea
This spring, first-year MIT/WHOI Joint Program students enrolled in an introductory course in biological oceanography had the opportunity to participate in a field exercise on R/V Tioga. During the cruise,…
Read MoreMeasuring Plankton
The Video Plankton Recorder (VPR), an underwater video microscope system capable of taking images of plankton and particulate matter as small as 50 microns, is shown here on the deck…
Read MoreAll the Pretty Jellyfish
By Cherie Winner, Kate Madin :: Originally published online June 2, 2011
Read MoreThe Big One
WHOI research assistant Justin Ossolinski snorkels over a massive coral in Vietnam—the largest of its kind in the country, according to WHOI climate scientist Konrad Hughen‘s colleagues at the Institute…
Read MoreStanding Ready
Erik Cordes of Temple University (second from left), Tim Shank (WHOI, to right), and principal investigator Chuck Fisher (Penn State University, far right) discuss the day’s dive during a December…
Read MoreReady for Duty
On April 23, 2011, R/V Atlantis came out of dry-dock in Jacksonville, Florida, with a fresh coat of paint and a full schedule of science cruises. This picture was taken…
Read MoreNorth Pole Spring
WHOI engineers Jeff Pietro (left) and Kris Newhall attached a cylindrical profiler instrument to a wire hanging into the Arctic Ocean recently near the North Pole. Pietro, Newhall and senior…
Read MoreCasting a Short Shadow
An Adélie penguin ponders the long shadows of tall visitors to its colony on Ross Island in the Antarctic. The picture was taken by Chris Linder, a research associate in…
Read MoreLost and Found
“Wet tests” are performed in port with the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus prior to a 2009 expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise—an ultraslow spreading…
Read MoreUp Close with a Jumbo Squid
Aran Mooney (left to right), Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, and Darlene Ketten confer with Julie Arruda over a Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) from Baja Mexico. Ruiz-Cooley came to WHOI recently from the…
Read MorePacking for a Glacial Visit
What do you take if you’re planning for 100 days camped at the foot of a glacier? A Kindle full of books, a guitar, and, if you’re lucky, a very…
Read MoreLoading a Node
Chris Holm of Oregon State University and WHOI engineers John Lund and Jeff Pietro (left to right) help load a Multi-function Node (MFN) onto the R/V Wecoma in preparation for…
Read MoreSpotlight on Seafood
A fishing boat passes by Nosbka Point on its way into Woods Hole. The subject of seafood supply is the topic this week of the Morss Colloquium at Woods Hole…
Read MoreLife in the Fast Lane
Observed by postdoctoral scholar Shawn Arellano (back left), Joint Program students Oscar Sosa and Jeanette Wheeler watch as fellow student Sara Bosshart adds fluorescein dye to WHOI’s racetrack flume to…
Read MoreCores for Climate History
Ellen Roosen (left) and Dan McCorkle retrieve a sediment core during a 2006 cruise aboardf R/V Oceanus. The core contains fossil shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera–“forams” for short. Some…
Read MoreBarnacle Build-Up
An adult snail (large brown shell) and Northern rock barnacles of various ages crust a rock in the intertidal zone of Buzzards Bay. A large white barnacle is attached to…
Read MoreAirborne Oceanographer
Last winter, WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo rode a helicopter above Sermilik Fjord (visible through the window) in eastern Greenland. From the air, she was able to search for patches…
Read MoreMeasuring Mercury
As part of a study of mercury cycling in Waquoit Bay, WHOI biogeochemists William Martin (left) and Carl Lamborg deployed the benthic chamber shown here. This instrument collects samples that allow…
Read MoreChecking the Day’s Catch
In December 2010 a multi-institution research team explored the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico with the submersible Alvin, to study deep-sea life. The expedition, funded as a National Science…
Read MoreFraming a Field
Fom left, Senior carpenter Rowland Cummings, engineer Paul Fucile, and post doctoral investigator Masako Tominaga view a custom Helmholtz Coil frame Cummings built, before winding wire on it. By passing…
Read MoreAssembling an Observatory
WHOI machinist Tim Kling uses a precision water-jet cutter to fabricate an internal frame member of a buoy destined to be part of an upcomig at-sea test of components of…
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