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Sunset Dive

Sunset Dive

Alvin recovery swimmer Jim McGill from the crew of the R/V Atlantis dives from the vehicle at sunset during a 28-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. Led by Chief…

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Cracking the Code

Cracking the Code

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch carries tubes containing cultures of Aureococcus anophagefferens, which has been responsible for brown tides along heavily populated coastlines of the eastern U.S. and South…

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Reconstructing a Tsunami

This simulation, produced by ocean modelers Changsheng Chen and Robert Beardsley using the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM), shows how the tsunami created by sudden uplift of the seafloor…

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A Flexible Floatilla

A Flexible Floatilla

Research vessels like the R/V Knorr need to be flexible. Depending on the objectives of each expedition, the ship might be outfitted with any number of moving parts that must…

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What Did One Pilot Whale Say to the Other?

What Did One Pilot Whale Say to the Other?

During the summer of 2010, WHOI biologists and engineers, working jointly with the Spanish nonprofit Alnitak in the Alboran Sea between Spain and Morocco, attached non-intrusive digital recording tags (DTAGs)…

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Elemental Alvin

Elemental Alvin

The overhaul and upgrade of the deep submergence vehicle Alvin reached a milestone last week with  completion of the disassembly phase of the nearly 18 month-long process. The largest remaining…

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Sea Ice Isn’t Terra Firma

Sea Ice Isn't Terra Firma

In March 2010, WHOI researchers journeyed to the sea ice off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, to test whether an untethered underwater vehicle called REMUS could be sent into an…

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Moonlight on the Long Core

Moonlight on the Long Core

Looking down the barrel of the WHOI Long Core reveals a full moon trailing behind R/V Knorr in January 2010. The ship was in transit from Tampa to Bridgetown, Barbados,…

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Diwali Night at WHOI

Diwali Night at WHOI

A group of women wearing traditional Indian saris and the colorful forehead decoration known as bindi take a moment during WHOI’s Diwali Night celebration to pose for a photo. Diwali…

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Witness to Destruction in New Zealand

Witness to Destruction in New Zealand

WHOI geologist and earthquake expert Jian Lin arrived on New Zealand’s South Island two days after the deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck that region on Feb. 22. Lin traveled to…

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An A for Alvin

An A for Alvin

The deep submersible Alvin is recovered to the massive steel A-frame on the stern of its support ship R/V Atlantis. This was the first dive of a December cruise to…

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Let There Be Laser Light

Let There Be Laser Light

The ocean is teeming with life—most of which you can’t see. Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, has helped invent a new instrument to view microscopic…

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After the Spill, the Dispersant

After the Spill, the Dispersant

Marine chemist Elizabeth Kujawinski (standing), researcher Melissa Kido Soule (seated), and colleagues recently found that a main component of a chemical dispersant used during the Deepwater Horizon spill to break…

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Happy Birthday Nat!

Happy Birthday Nat!

In 1948, Nat Corwin (above) made his first cruise on a WHOI vessel, sailing aboard the original Atlantis to the Mediterranean. He later sailed as chief scientist aboard Atlantis II…

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90 Hours Below

90 Hours Below

In September 2010 off the coast of Oregon, the Jason team, with help from the captain and crew of the NOAA research vessel R/V Thomas G. Thompson, recovered the ROV…

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Made to Last

Made to Last

Jim Dunn of WHOI’s Mooring Operations, Engineering, and Field Support Group holds a NOMAD buoy mooring line during a research cruise in the Pacific Ocean in July 2010. The bulky…

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Nice To Meet You

Nice To Meet You

Pilot Mike Skowronski (foreground) conducts a post-dive check of Alvin‘s starboard manipulator arm. Some 75 space shuttle pilots have flown missions, but since 1965, the job of driving Alvin has…

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A Matter of Crust

A Matter of Crust

WHOI scientists and students take a break while hiking to see the Ocean Crust Transition exposed in the Swiss and Italian Alps during the 2010 Geodynamics Study Tour. The field…

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NOMADs in Port

NOMADs in Port

At the port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, workers prepare to bring two yellow NOMAD buoys aboard the R/V Roger Revelle in July, 2010. The buoys were too large to be trucked…

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Bacteria that Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Bacteria that Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Chemist Mak Saito and colleagues recently reported that a marine bacterium recycles and reuses a scarce nutrient, iron. Crocosphaera watsonii disassembles iron-containing enzymes used by night and builds the iron…

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Landing the Catch

Landing the Catch

Over the continental slope, east of Veatch Canyon and south of Nantucket Island, WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe (left) and summer student Jon Fincke helped retrieve the “HammarHead” towed vehicle. Named…

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Sun Today, Snow Tomorrow

Sun Today, Snow Tomorrow

WHOI research vessels like the R/V Knorr have to go where the science is. Sometimes that means late June in Barbados, where scientists Jim Broda and Al Gagnon (shown here)…

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