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Clap Trap

Clap Trap

A set of “clap traps” await deployment on the fantail of the research vessel Roger Revelle in the summer of 2005. Clap traps are moored instruments designed to collect particles…

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A Closer Look

A Closer Look

2007 Summer Student Fellow Carolina Gutierrez assists Tom Siemens (Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center of the University of New England) with a necropsy on a seal. Dozens of animals, most often…

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Far Afield

Far Afield

WHOI Trustee Peter Aron gets a close-up view of a penguin during a cruise with the WHOI Associates to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, Tasmania, and New Zealand in November 2005. The…

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WHOI on the Big Stage

WHOI on the Big Stage

WHOI’s Acting President and Director James Luyten joins other state and federal dignitaries in announcing a $97.7 million contract to support the development, installation, and initial operation of the coastal…

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Cannon Salute

Cannon Salute

Senior Engineer Ben Allen fires a canon to herald the return of research vessel Knorr as it cruised into Woods Hole after the successful first test of the ship’s new…

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Circulatory System of the Ocean

Circulatory System of the Ocean

A global system of ocean circulation—often called the “great ocean conveyor” transports vast amounts of heat and salt around the planet via warmer surface currents (red) and colder deep currents…

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Steady as She Goes

Steady as She Goes

Tess Brandon and Kelsey Winsor 2007 participants in the Summer Student Fellowship program deploy a box corer off the stern of research vessel Tioga. In addition to lectures and time…

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This Seaweed’s Not for Sushi

This Seaweed's Not for Sushi

[From left] Biologists Don Anderson (WHOI), Deana Erdner (University of Texas and former member of Anderson’s lab) and Robert Dickey (U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory) traveled…

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Cover Your Back

Cover Your Back

While the icebreaker Oden was smashing ice and trying to push it away from the bow, the ship’s officers also kept an eye on Oden’s aft, 107.7 meters (353 feet)…

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The Clapper

The Clapper

A crew member on the research vessel Kilo Moana assists in the deployment of a “clap-trap” mooring during the summer 2004 Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) project off…

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Get a Grip

Get a Grip

Working at the WHOI dock, summer student fellow Tess Brandon (Cornell University) and WHOI engineering assistant Amy Kukulya prepare a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle for a research trip out to…

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Share a Cup of Friendship

Share a Cup of Friendship

In January 2007, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and WHOI biologist Tim Shank made the first-ever phone call from outer space (the International Space Station) to inner space (the deep ocean…

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Preserving the Future of Research

Preserving the Future of Research

Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer (Brown University) holds a jar of juvenile crabs collected from the deep ocean floor along the East Pacific Rise. Working in the laboratory of WHOI…

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Grappling with a Bloom

Grappling with a Bloom

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Christie Wood (foreground) and postdoctoral investigator Alfredo Aretxabaleta prepare to recover the conductivity-temperature-depth rosette during the NOAA Rapid Response cruise to study red tide in…

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Portrait of a Species on the Brink

Portrait of a Species on the Brink

Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) populations have been severely depleted by humans throughout most of their range. Several large spawning aggregations still exist in the western part of its range near…

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Thin Yellow Line

Thin Yellow Line

Chief Scientist John Goff (center, in blue T-shirt and jeans) and other scientific staff deploy a Vibracorer off the research vessel Knorr in August 2007. Goff, a senior research scientist…

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

WHOI senior research assistant Scott Cramer describes the tools available in the necropsy suite of the Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility to a group of journalists participating in WHOI’s annual…

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Not in the Usual Job Description

Not in the Usual Job Description

During oceanographic research cruises, it is customary for scientists to cook for the crew. Midway through this summer’s expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, chief scientist Rob Reves-Sohn found himself in…

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Keeping A Float

Keeping A Float

WHOI senior engineer Jim Valdes and physical oceanographer Amy Bower inspect an innovative new carousel device designed to automatically release a yellow float when warm water eddies pass. The carousel…

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See Worthy

See Worthy

The REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle works just below the surface in Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve off Belize, while the crew (Faegon Villanueva and Tyrone Lambert, from Belize; and Glen…

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The Best Place to Watch a Sunset

The Best Place to Watch a Sunset

As the research vessel Knorr cruised from Woods Hole toward the continental shelf off New Jersey, the science crew admired the sunset and the end of the first day. From…

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Come and Get Me

Come and Get Me

The automonous underwater vehicle Puma waits for pickup on the surface of the Arctic Ocean, nestled in a slushy patch of ice in July 2007. The AUV, along with special…

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Rocking the Boat

Rocking the Boat

“When the ice gets tough, the best weapon we have is the ship’s heeling tanks,” said Thomas Strömsnäs, second officer of the icebreaker Oden, which carried WHOI researchers through the…

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Central American Beauty

Central American Beauty

A baby reef squid found its way into the nets of WHOI researchers as they worked in the waters around Belize to study the connectivity of reef ecosystems. Biologists and…

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