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Reef Watch
A clownfish swims amid the corals of the Red Sea, where WHOI researchers are planning to team with colleagues from Saudi Arabia to examine a reef system that has mostly…
Read MoreMuddy Waters
Bryn Warren, guest student in the WHOI Biology Department, and WHOI postdoctoral fellow Luciano Fernandes process mud samples collected from the Gulf of Maine in October 2007. The researchers were…
Read MoreCoral Destruction
Cold Insulation
When sea ice forms, it releases salt into surface waters. These waters become denser and sink to form the Arctic halocline a layer of cold water that acts as barrier…
Read MoreWHOI Pier Over Time
2004
Read MoreAscension Day
A crewmember from the research vessel Knorr rises into a helicopter operated by the Icelandic coast guard during a recent cruise in the North Atlantic. When the coast guard came…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The science party on the research vessel Knorr looks forward to its homecoming in Woods Hole after two weeks at sea testing the new Long Core system. (Photo by Richard…
Read MoreGetting in Tune
Able seaman Ronnie Whims, part of the crew of the research vessel Oceanus, plucks out a tune on his guitar while resting on the ship’s port-side deck near a Craib…
Read MoreStaying On Top of His Work
Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel Ronald…
Read MoreIce Water
The research vessel Knorr stands tall amid the pleasure boats and working boats at a dock in Reykjavik harbor. The ship put in some port time in Iceland before headling…
Read MoreSoaring
WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and oceanographer Jerry Dean recover the Seasoar towed vehicle (with a mounted video plankton recorder) in February 1997 from the research vessel Oceanus. The…
Read MoreTeeming with Opportunity
WHOI scientists captured this view of a coral reef in the Red Sea during a spring 2007 visit to Saudi Arabia. Researchers from the Middle East kingdom have asked WHOI…
Read MoreGo Sox
Working and living at sea is never easy, but it is even harder when your favorite team is in the World Series and you aren’t due home for two weeks.…
Read MoreA Firm Grip
Marine technician Gary Austin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory assembles a soft tether release on the Low Frequency Acoustic Seismic Experiment (LFASE) in August 1989. Researchers…
Read MoreCut Ups
Adelphi University researchers Amanda Uster and Beth Christensen (right) open a sediment core retrieved from the continental shelf off New Jersey during an August 2007 expedition on the research vessel…
Read MoreDog Days
WHOI research associate Terry Hammar works to attach some lead weights to a release mechanism beneath the ‘dog dish’ in preparation for testing the new “long core” system on the…
Read MoreUsing ITPs to Explore Change in the Arctic
Interview with WHOI senior scientist John Toole.
Read MorePutting ITPs In and Getting Data Out
Engineer Rick Krishfield discusses the challenges of getting ice-tethered profilers in the field and then retrieving the data.
Read MoreIce Capades
Wath the entire process of installing an ice-tethered profiler in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.
Read MoreInstalling and Recovering an Ice-Tethered Profiler
He Doesn’t Do Windows
WHOI engineering assistant Sean Whelan cleans the longwave and shortwave radiometer domes on top of a Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station buoy during an April 2006 expedition off Barbados. The buoys measure…
Read MoreLearning from a Master
WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp got his hands (and knees) dirty in the summer of 2006 while leading the logistical effort to deploy 62 moorings for the Shallow Water…
Read MoreNext of Kin
On December 11, 1968, the Deep Submergence Vehicle Sea Cliff (DSV-4) was christened and launched at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation for the U.S. Navy. The personnel sphere…
Read MoreFirst Mud
[From foreground to background] WHOI researchers Bill Curry and Jim Broda, as well as Rolf Ambjornsen of the Norwegian marine services company Odim, help retrieve the first sediment ever collected…
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