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Remembering a Legend
Bill Schevill, right, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics after World War II, but when Bill Watkins, left, joined him in Woods Hole in 1958, they began what former…
Read MoreListen In
The WHOI dock not only provides a place for research vessels to tie up, it also offers Institution scientists and engineers ready access to the water as they develop new…
Read MoreTuning In To SharkCam
WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya steadies the REMUS SharkCam in in a test tank while acoustics engineer Keenan Ball monitors sensor and propulsion noise. Just weeks after the SharkCam made a…
Read MoreBird’s Eye View
This aerial photo of Woods Hole village shows the two large WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis, left, and Knorr, right, at the WHOI dock overlooking Great Harbor. Many improvements have been…
Read MoreReady for Assembly
Skilled fabricator/welders in the WHOI Mechanical Shop made these parts, which are ready to be assembled into a sturdy tripod that will hold an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). The…
Read MoreVehicle Overboard
In 2010 WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (left) and Summer Student Fellow Jonathan Fincke deployed a towed vehicle called “HammarHead” from the research vessel Connecticut. HammarHead, named for its designer, engineer…
Read MoreBear-ing Away
The research vessel Bear, shown here steaming out of Woods Hole, was built during World War II to carry troops in the South Pacific. After the war, WHOI saw the…
Read MoreListening to the Tide Roll In
It might look like it just washed ashore, but this instrumented frame is fixed in place on Nova Scotia’s mega-tidal Bay of Fundy for a month at a time to…
Read MoreAction
In July 2013, researchers aboard the research vessel Melville deployed a set of moorings at Station PAPA in the Northeast Pacific. The instruments, including this acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP),…
Read MoreCatch of the Day
R/V Knorr Bosun Peter Liarikos and Shipboard Scientific Services Group technician Amy Simoneau release a catch of rock specimens collected with a dredge near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Scientists on the…
Read MoreAll Ears
Students in a bioacoustics workshop partly run by WHOI scientists Peter Wiebe, Tim Stanton, and Gareth Lawson in July 2013 at Friday Harbor Laboratories watch as a towed sonar system…
Read MoreTag, You’re It
Daniel Webster, of the Cascadia Research Collective, tags a spotted dolphin with a WHOI DTAG off the coast of Kona, Hawaii in May 2013. Biologist Aran Mooney and Joint Program…
Read MoreBuilding for the Future
Named for WHOI’s first director, the Bigelow Lab on Water St. in Woods Hole, Mass., was WHOI’s first building. Plans called for “a brick building, 135 feet long and 50…
Read MoreSpare Part
R/V Tioga first mate Ian Hanley (left) and senior engineering assistant Jim Dunn prepare a hydrophone buoy for deployment on the stern of Tioga in March. The buoy is part…
Read MoreBird’s Eye View
This aerial photo of Woods Hole village shows the two large WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis, left, and Knorr, right, at the WHOI dock overlooking Great Harbor. Many improvements have been…
Read MoreTalking Through Water
Scientists strive to quickly recover data after it is collected from ocean depths, a process that is often cumbersome and costly. WHOI engineer Norman Farr and his colleagues have helped…
Read MoreOne Man’s Contribution
Research specialist and hydro-acoustics engineer Sydney “Bud” Knott (above) is considered the father of modern echo-sounding. In the 1950s, he was the principal developer, with Warren Witzell, of the precision…
Read MoreWhat Does Dinner Sound Like?
Squid such as this Loligo pealii are a major prey item of many fish, whales, and human fishermen. WHOI researchers are using acoustics to study how whales use sonar to…
Read MoreMaking connections
Engineer Keith Von Der Heydt connects cables in Woods Hole prior to testing acoustic source drivers, in preparation for deployment for the “Surface Processes and Acoustic Communications Experiment,” also known as…
Read MoreEavesdropping on Whales
Bill Schevill, left, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics just after World War II. When Bill Watkins, right, joined him at WHOI in 1958, they began what current WHOI…
Read MoreA New Sport?
Dave Morton of Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems, Inc., throws a sonobuoy hydrophone receiver over the side of the research vessel Endeavor during the Autonomous Wide Aperture for Cluster…
Read MoreNoise Maker
Boatswain Jim McGill (left) of the WHOI-operated research vessel Oceanus assists scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Penn State University as they deploy a towed, mid-range sound source…
Read MoreWorth Every (Sand) Dollar
Ensign Greg Dietzen a student in the MIT/WHOI graduate program and a U.S. Navy officer was named this week as the 2007 recipient of the Rear Admiral Richard Pittenger Fellowship.…
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