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Can You Hear Me Now?
An Adélie penguin bends low to check on its eggs, which are snuggled into the warm skin and feathers between its legs (look closely and you can see an eggshell…
Read MoreDetour for a Good Cause
Endangered right whales congregate in Cape Cod Bay, particularly from December through May, while an average of seven passenger or cargo vessels pass through the area each day. Using five…
Read MoreRaise a Tall Glass
Working in open water in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito deploys a water sampler from the R/V Nathaniel Palmer. The object of the CORSACS project (Controls On Ross…
Read MoreSetting the Hook and Fishing Line
Engineering assistant Sean Whelan assembles a mooring hook (left) and acoustic release (yellow tube) for a tricky equipment recovery operation at sea. WHOI technicians and engineers have developed their own…
Read MoreClamping Down
Technicians, scientists, and crew all chip in to put davit clamps onto the core barrel of the long core system on the research vessel Knorr in September 2007. The clamps…
Read MoreHarboring Pollution
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Jed Goldstone (left) teaches summer student fellows Thiago Parente (center) and Katie Barott to sample killifish near an EPA Superfund site in New Bedford Harbor. Goldstone and…
Read MorePolar Bear Club
Undeterred by a snowstorm, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Michael Holcomb (red hood), research assistant Byron Pedler, and assistant scientist Ben Van Mooy (kneeling) recover experimental plates that had been suspended…
Read More2007 Postdoctoral Symposium
No Place Like Home
The research vessel Oceanus arrives back at home port on the Iselin Marine Facility in Woods Hole following a successful cruise to retrieve the GUSTO, CLIMODE, and wave monitoring technology…
Read MoreBlack Tie Optional
The penguins on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean entertained and inspired WHOI Associates during an educational pleasure cruise to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Sub-Antarctic Islands in the winter…
Read MoreThe Irminger Sea Buoy
Almost as soon as it was set in the Irminger Sea, an experimental buoy began to take punishment from winds and waves. (Video by George Tupper, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By…
Read MorePicking Up the Pieces
Research technicians and ship’s crew work to recover the bottom section of a CLIMODE mooring from the Gulf Stream in October 2007. From the background (stern of the ship): senior…
Read MoreTake a Bow
On a calm day during the RESET 06 expedition in the Pacific Ocean which took a place in response to a volcanic eruption at the 9ºN vent site on the…
Read MoreMarking Time (Geologic)
WHOI research associate Terry Hammar (left) and research specialist Al Gagnon label sections of core tube prior to loading them into the barrel of the long core system on R/V…
Read MoreStay Focused
Laser light from a Raman spectrometer shines into a vial of water in Sheri White’s laboratory, focusing about mid-way through the sample. White and colleagues are using Raman spectroscopy to…
Read MoreAny cysts in the there?
Postdoctoral fellow Luciano Fernandes of the WHOI Biology Department handles a mud sample plucked from the Gulf of Maine during an October 2007 cruise on the research vessel Oceanus. As…
Read MoreTest for Echo
Christian Begler of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography deploys a pressure-and-inverted echo sounder (PIES) as a part of the German-led Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment (MOVE). The MOVE group joined WHOI…
Read MoreCrane Man
Able-bodied seaman Leo Fitz peers out from the controls of the crane on the research vessel Oceanus during an October 2007 cruise in the North Atlantic. Fitz and other members…
Read MorePole to Pole
On April 23, the outreach team of WHOI’s Polar Discovery web expeditions reached the farthest tip of inhabited land in North America Canadian Forces Station Alert. Today, exactly seven months…
Read MoreTakes a Licking and Keeps on Clicking
WHOI engineer Tom Hurst (pictured) and his colleague Mark Johnson created a customized attachment for using digital tags, or D-tags, to track the movements, behaviors, and vocalizations of manatees. The…
Read MoreInstead of Counting Sheep
In the wee hours of a September 2007 morning, WHOI research associate Kathryn Rose (foreground) and research assistant Marti Jeglinski (background) worked alongside coring technician Chris Moser of Oregon State…
Read MoreEavesdropping
MIT/WHOI graduate student Ari Shapiro takes a break from listening to the vocalizations of narwhals. His computer screen shows a spectrograma plot of sound frequency versus time of one of…
Read MoreDog Dish Afternoon
Bosun Peter Liarikos works with the “dog dish” so named for its shape on the new long-coring instrument on the research vessel Knorr. The dog dish contains all of the…
Read MorePole Position
WHOI science writer Mike Carlowicz interviews NOAA scientist Sigrid Salo during a flight from Resolute Bay, Canada, to Canadian Forces Station Alert. Along for the flight to Alert were (back…
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