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No Swimming
A floating piece of ice in the Arctic Ocean matches the shades of white-sand beaches in tropical water, but the temperature would be quite a shock to anyone who was […]
Read MoreData Recovery
Kjetil Vaage, of the University of Bergen, helps WHOI mooring technicians Jim Ryder and Dan Torres recover the dual acoustic release component of a mooring line. During a Read More
Making Camp
Researchers collect gear delivered by helicopter at a site in West Greenland. The expedition led by WHOI oceanographer Fiamma Straneo and glaciologist Sarah Das in the summer of 2013 was […]
Read MoreNorthern Moorings
In September 2013, WHOI scientist Bob Pickart and colleagues traveled to to the Arctic aboard the Norwegian ship Lance to study ocean circulation in the far north. The […]
Read MoreA Decade of Change
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy steams through “pancake” sea ice in the western Arctic Ocean in October 2013. WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart is leading the cruise […]
Read MoreAll Aboard
Postdoctoral scholar Liz Douglass (left) and chief scientist Ruth Curry recover a CTD rosette during a cruise aboard RV Knorr in the North Atlantic in 2011. The […]
Read MoreA First Time for Everything
The R/V Lance is an old sealing vessel that was converted by the Norwegian Polar Institute to support oceanographic research. Its design requires moorings to be deployed off […]
Read MoreIcy Outpost
Researchers from WHOI and crew from the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent prepare to deploy an ice-tethered micro-mooring (ITM) on a large ice floe in the Canada Basin […]
Read MoreSafe Passage
Icebergs were a common sight around the British icebreaker James Clark Ross during a 30-day summer research cruise along Greenland’s east coast to the high-Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The […]
Read MoreBi-coastal Battering
While Hurricane Sandy was lashing the East Coast, a low-pressure system was making life difficult for the scientists and crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy. The team […]
Read MoreSmooth Sailing
In August 2012, the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy sailed through unusually light sea ice across Hanna Shoal in the norhtern Chukchi Sea. The cruise was the first […]
Read MoreWorking Under Ice
Breaking the Ice
Carbon on Ice
A team of researchers sample ice and snow from an ice floe in the Canada Basin, an area northwest of the Canadian coast, during a 2008 expedition to measure carbon […]
Read MoreSurveying Carbon
Mike Dempsey (left) of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Sciences and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student David Griffith recover a pump used to collect samples during a 2008 expedition […]
Read MoreBarnacle Buoy
Instruments, buoys, and rigging lines placed in the sea attract a wide variety of organisms. After 13 months in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska, this orange float sported […]
Read MoreNight Shift
Tracking Greenland’s glacial retreat
Recent changes in ocean circulation in the North Atlantic are delivering larger amounts of subtropical waters to the high latitudes. A research team led by Fiamma Straneo, a […]
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