Multimedia Items
Who Needs a Submersible?
WHOI diving safety officer Terry Rioux dons a “Mark V” diving helmet at the Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two, in Little Creek, Va, in June 1978. Before and during…
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Graduate students Chris Murphy (in the water), Rogelio Morales-Garcia (holding the instrument), and Clayton Kunz work to calibrate a camera system in the new test tank in WHOI’s Coastal Research…
Read MoreMoulin Rouge
In July 2008, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington spread a harmless red dye into the meltwater on top of the Greenland ice sheet. The team was able…
Read MoreSundown, You’d Better Take Care
The Sun sets over the North Atlantic and the bow of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008 during an expedition off the edge of the continental shelf southeast of…
Read MoreBlue Water, Red Sea
Working off the coast of Saudi Arabia, a WHOI-led research team has been surveying and cataloging the largely unstudied coral reefs of the Red Sea. WHOI recently joined a partnership…
Read MoreNo, no, you go first…
New MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Heather Beem (top) and Jessica Fitzsimmons (bottom) climb the rigging of the educational sailing ship Corwith Cramer, with direction from ships’ mate (and sometime captain)…
Read MoreSign of the Zodiac
In March 2008, University of Rhode Island graduate student Pat Kelley (top, middle) and crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy use a Zodiac to recover a floating…
Read MoreChain of Tools
The fantail and decks of the research vessel Chain are stuffed with buoys while docked at the WHOI pier in 1958. Once a U.S. Navy salvage vessel, Chain made 129…
Read MoreAt the Top of Their Field
Mike Gagne (in the basket) and Nate Lavoie (on the mast) from WHOI’s ship operations group work to remove unused cable, mounts, and antennas from the top of the research…
Read MorePlaying in the Mud
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Carly Strasser sieves mud to find juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) in the summer of 2005 in an estuary in Calves Pasture, Barnstable, Mass. Strasser, now…
Read MoreFrozen Evidence
WHOI geologist Adam Soule holds a chunk of icy sediment plucked from the soils of Antarctica in December 2007. When Soule and colleagues dug a pit into the earth around…
Read MoreMaking Waves
When an earthquake occurs, rocks at a fault line slip or rupture, and a portion of Earth’s crust physically moves. That releases energy, and two types of seismic waves radiate…
Read MoreSwing Low, Sweet Chariot
The coastal research vessel Tioga takes shelter in late June at a dock in Rockport Harbor, Mass., where the tides can rise and fall by as much as eight feet.…
Read MoreJust Keep Breathing
Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (yellow) and assistant scientist Ben Van Mooy (orange) examine Niskin bottles stowed in an incubation tank on the stern of the research vessel Oceanus during an…
Read MoreDynamic!
Six of the seven founding members of the annual Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) summer program met in Woods Hole on June 27 for a 50th anniversary celebration. In addition, the…
Read MoreLooking Out for Whales
WHOI engineering assistants Jim Dunn (center) and Jim Ryder (right) and a member of the crew of the research vessel Connecticut deploy a right whale autodetection buoy in Massachusetts Bay…
Read MoreA-maze-ing Corals
The skeletons of brain corals are sensitive to changes in ocean conditions. As they grow, the corals assimilate chemical signals from the ocean that reveal changes in the global environment.…
Read MoreDisco Ball?
Viewed end-on, the diatom Coscinodiscus is a study in symmetry, reminiscent of a sunflower. WHOI biologists Dawn Moran and Becky Gast have been collecting, imaging, and cataloguing protists (protozoa and algae)…
Read MoreBox of Mud
Senior research assistant Ellen Roosen (white hard hat) puts a pin in a box corer in preparation for deployment over the side of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008.…
Read MoreYou’re Gonna Need a Bigger Shark
Richard “Dick” Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the…
Read MoreFlying In Water
To call a penguin flightless is to ignore its abilities underwater. As penguins evolved, their wings grew shorter and their feathers smaller, and they eventually lost the ability to fold…
Read MoreChoosing Only the Best
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Paul Snelgrove and Noellette Conway examine the shallow-water clam, Mya arenaria; Conway focused her doctoral thesis on studies of clams in the late 1980s. The Joint…
Read MoreCome to Papa
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry is recovered after a dive in the North Atlantic during an April 2008 test cruise on the research vessel Oceanus. From left: WHOI engineers…
Read MoreUp Close and Personal with Alvin
Craig Dickson, second mate for the research vessel Atlantis, and Matthew Barton, WHOI mulitimedia coordinator, drive in for a close up of the Alvin submersible in April 2008 during deployment operations…
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