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Backyard Show-and-Tell
Visitors learned about the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whale detection mooring during a public event in June 2015. The listening system allows researchers to detect the location of right…
Read MoreEndangered Species Day 2015
May 15 is Endangered Species Day. In 2010, a team that included experts from WHOI placed non-invasive DTAGs on one of the largest endangered species, and one that frequents the…
Read MoreTioga at Ten
WHOI’s coastal research vessel, R/V Tioga, gets some attention in port from crew member Ian Hanley (left) and Captain Ken Houtler. Equipped with water samplers, a current profiler, an echo-sounder,…
Read MoreA Tap on the Back
Julie van der Hoop prepares to tag a fin whale in Quebec’s Gulf of St. Lawrence as part of a collaborative project between the Mingan Island Cetacean Study and the…
Read MoreWhale Calls
Biologist Mark Baumgartner recovers a robotic glider equipped with a WHOI-developed digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument after it found several endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine. Baumgartner wrote the…
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 MoreA Tangled Problem
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Julie van der Hoop and marine biologist Michael Moore confer during a recent expedition on R/V Tioga. The pair was using a tensiometer to measure drag forces created by…
Read MoreYou’re It
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop assisted Rene Swift (above) from the Miller Lab at the University of St. Andrews in tagging humpback whales off Ilse Nue,…
Read MoreLoading Up
WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni prepares a Slocum glider for deployment on a research mission (in this picture, the glider’s wings have been removed). The glider moves up and down…
Read MorePreventing Ship-Whale Collisions
In an effort to avert lethal collisions between ships and endangered right whales, 10 buoy systems (purple dots) were installed in the Boston Harbor shipping lanes, beginning in 2007. Each…
Read MorePlaying tag
To learn more about what whales do when they dive beneath the surface, scientists use a digital acoustic recording tag, or D-tag. The small device, designed and developed at WHOI,…
Read MoreA whale of an anchor
WHOI welder Tony Delane works on the mooring anchor framework for a multifunction node (MFN) and buoy system that will help researchers monitor the activity of North Atlantic right whales,…
Read MoreCelebrating Science
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center Manager Kathy Patterson and Senior Engineer Don Peters (in baseball caps at center and far right) explain the new Auto Detection Mooring…
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