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Danube Delta Cores

Danube Delta Cores

Did a flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out nearby Neolithic settlements? “We don’t see evidence for a catastrophic flood as…

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Icy Communications

Icy Communications

WHOI engineer Peter Koski from the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department sets up a remote recording station on a small ice floe in the Fram Strait, between Greenland and…

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Finding HABs with ESP

Finding HABs with ESP

Research associate Bruce Keafer inspects a new instrument known as the environmental sample processor (ESP) in the lab run by WHOI senior scientist Don Anderson. The robotic instrument will be…

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A Line in the Ocean

A Line in the Ocean

Line W is an array of five moorings that has been monitoring changes in two currents that play important roles in regulating Earth’s climate: the Gulf Stream (orange area) and…

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While the Tide is Out

While the Tide is Out

Researchers take advantage of low tide to carry an instrument tower across the Skagit tidal flats north of Seattle in the summer of 2009. The team, which was led by…

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Looking Ahead to 2011

Looking Ahead to 2011

Happy New Year from everyone at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.(Photo by Rick Galat, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Tracking Warm Water Up North

Tracking Warm Water Up North

Greenlander Arqaluk Jørgensen and WHOI researchers Fiamma Straneo (middle) and Dave Sutherland (right) prepare for a day trip into Sermilik Fjord in East Greenland in 2008. They found subtropical water…

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An Inside Job

An Inside Job

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution possesses the only imaging facility in the world entirely dedicated to marine research: the Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility (CSI), led by biologist Darlene Ketten.  Using the…

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Home After a Long Day?s Work

Home After a Long Day?s Work

The research vessel Tioga returns home to Woods Hole in September 2010 after a day of research in Buzzards Bay. Scientists on the vessel spent the day collecting shallow coastal…

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Heave Ho!

Heave Ho!

Kurt Polzin (center, in white shirt and no cap) pulls his weight on the Sea Education Association’s SSV Westward in 1990, during one of the first MIT-WHOI Joint Program “new…

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In Search of Underwater Clouds

In Search of Underwater Clouds

WHOI scientist John “Chip” Breier prepares the SUPR (Suspended Particulate Rosette) sampler and other instruments for deployment in the North Atlantic in October 2010. He designed the SUPR sampler, the…

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A Christmas Wreath of Crabs

A Christmas Wreath of Crabs

Square land crabs (Gecarcinus quadratus) form a defensive ring in a collection bucket at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama. Research by Joanna Gyory, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI…

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Three Men and a Float

Three Men and a Float

In May 2010 R/V Knorr sailed off the coast of Brazil near the mouth of the Amazon River, so that scientists could study how the river’s plume of nutrient-laden fresh…

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A Tall Buoy

A Tall Buoy

Members of the WHOI Buoy Group load a spar buoy onto the research vessel Atlantis for use in the CLIMODE experiment to investigate the formation and evolution of a mass…

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Searching for a Switch

Searching for a Switch

To reconstruct climate changes over millennia, scientists like WHOI’s Delia Oppo and former colleague Jerry McManus use conceptual models, like the one depicted here, that simulate the workings of the ocean…

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Open Wide

Open Wide

A manta ray, Manta birostris, opens its mouth wide to engulf zooplankton and other tidbits in the water. The dark marks visible inside the mouth are its gill slits. Manta…

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Long Core

By Tom Lanagan :: Originally published online August 1, 2010

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Antarctic Adventure

Antarctic Adventure

A research team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) hikes along a lava ridge in Antarctica during an expedition to study how the volcanic landscape formed and has changed. From…

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House Call

House Call

Members of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group conduct at-sea repairs on an ASIMET buoy in the Gulf Stream that was probably damaged by a ship. Sensors on the buoy…

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Wicked Wuzzle

Wicked Wuzzle

In the late 1960s, after synthetic mooring lines proved unable to hold up to the wear and tear of waves and currents, the WHOI Buoy Group switched to using wire…

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It Was Clean When We Put It In

It Was Clean When We Put It In

Engineering assistant Daniel Bogorff works to clean a fouled (and furry-looking) Ultramoor Data Capsule Magazine that had just been recovered from its mooring station on Line W between Woods Hole…

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A Fistful of Tubeworms

A Fistful of Tubeworms

Erik Cordes retrieves specimens of tubeworms from the submersible Alvin‘s sample basket during the current expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, which ends today. Cordes, an ecologist from Temple University,…

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Winching Ahead

Winching Ahead

To expand research into icy waters, in 2003 WHOI engineers designed the Arctic Winch, which can reach up to get critical measurements near the icy surface, but stay out of…

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