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Getting Ready to Cut the Umbilical
WHOI researchers secure harness lines and observe a test of the new Sentry autonomous underwater survey vehicle in April 2008, a day before heading out into the North Atlantic for…
Read MoreCaptain Hook
Hooked onto a safety line on the back of the Swedish icebreaker Oden, WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp hooks a line onto the Camper towed sampling vehicle after it…
Read MoreForecasting the Spring Blooms
WHOI biologist Don Anderson (left) and oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy review the results of a computer simulation of the 2008 season for Alexandrium fundyense–a toxic form of algae–in New England waters,…
Read MoreCracking Down
Glaciologist Ian Joughin of the University of Washington poses near a large fracture in the center of a recently drained basin of meltwater on top of the Greenland ice sheet.…
Read MoreMarching Toward an Uncertain Future
Four penguins march over a massive cornice on their way to a secluded part of the Cape Crozier colony, on the rim of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. The birds,…
Read MoreProbing the Memory of Crystals
WHOI geologist Alison Shaw tightens the screws on a mount of small olivine crystals that she has prepared for examination in the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility on WHOI’s Quissett…
Read MoreQuake Up Call
Seismologists John Collins (left) and Jeff McGuire inspect an ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) system from the national Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool, based at WHOI, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and…
Read MoreSkin Tight
WHOI engineers Rod Catanach and Andy Billings fit the outer skin over one of the navigation transponders on the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, or ABE. The vehicle was the first autonomous…
Read MoreSafety First
Diego Mello, first mate of the research vessel Oceanus, helps WHOI postdoctoral scholar Tim Shanahan (right) get into his ‘Gumby’ survival suit during a safety drill. Whether it is your…
Read MoreContinent of Peace
A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters. Behind Byrd fly the 12 flags of the original Antarctic Treaty…
Read MoreOpen Season
The Woods Hole Ocean Science Exhibit Center, which has just opened for the 2008 season, is a great place to explore the diversity of WHOI’s research, learn a little local…
Read MoreBuried Treasure
“I never thought we would find such clean ice under that lava,” said WHOI geochemist Mark Kurz during a December 2007 expedition in Antarctica. Kurz, graduate student Andrea Burke, and…
Read MoreNew at the Helm
New WHOI President and Director Susan Avery meets with the crew of research vessel Knorr in the ship’s galley during a home port call in Woods Hole in April 2008.…
Read MoreYellow, Submarine…Float
Technicians and ship’s crew members deploy the top float of a subsurface mooring in the North Atlantic in Aprill 2006. Since 2002, WHOI researchers led by John Toole have maintained…
Read MoreSummer Fellows
No Vacancy
Scientific gear and underwater vehicles crowd the fantail of the research vessel Knorr during a 2001 expedition to explore the mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean. The first-generation remotely operated…
Read MoreDiplomatic Science
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (foreground) prepares to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist Susumu Honjo (standing) during a visit in 1975. An amateur marine biologist…
Read MoreFired Up
MIT/WHOI graduate student Desirée Plata prepares a flame torch to seal samples for carbon isotope measurements in her lab experiments. Her research has shown that differently manufactured carbon nanotubes have…
Read MoreGreen House, White Out
The greenhouse at McMurdo Station is a respite from Antarctica’s angular whiteness. Full of humidity, musty scents, and color, it was started in 1989 with two abandoned Navy huts and…
Read MoreTerror in White
Winds in Cape Crozier, Antarctica, tend to stream down the slopes from Mount Terror. The volcano got its name from Captain James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea and…
Read MoreBuoying Whales
WHOI engineering assistants Kris Newhall, Will Ostrom, and Mike McCarthy prepare to deploy buoys during the North Atlantic Right Whale Monitoring Project in Cape Cod Bay in 2004. (Photo by…
Read MoreFeeding Time
Alex Pogue, a guest student working with paleoclimatologist Anne Cohen and geochemist Dan McCorkle, feeds baby quahogs in an experiment that tests the impact of ocean acidification on early shell…
Read MoreGoing Up
The crew of the research vessel Knorr recovers a “elevator” during a 2001 cruise in the Dive and Discover series. Seafloor explorers use the system in tandem with the remotely…
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