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Tag Team

Tag Team

Biologist Peter Tyack (left) and senior engineer Mark Johnson have been working together to study whale behavior using Johnson’s D-tag to record whale movements, depth, and sounds on dives. The…

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Rock Beats Paper and Scissors

Rock Beats Paper and Scissors

The towed seafloor sampler Camper grabbed these volcanic rocks from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean for study by WHOI geologist Susan Humphris and colleagues. Now that the 40-day expedition…

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Out of the Cold

Out of the Cold

For several weeks each spring, Canadian researchers and logisticians from the Polar Continental Shelf Project (Canadian Energy, Mines, and Resources Department) open up their warehouse to American colleagues from the…

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The Sound of Science

The Sound of Science

Jesse Austin-Breneman, a summer student fellow from MIT, prepares an experiment to calibrate an echo sounder in a flow tank. The sounder is used for measuring seafloor topography from autonomous…

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Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

Field engineers Rob Harper (right) and Bob Rich from Thermo Fisher Scientific pour liquid helium as they install a Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR MS) in the Fye…

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Keeping Current

Keeping Current

Marvel Stalcup (foreground, with glasses) and Gus Day launch instruments from the research vessel Crawford in the 1960s. The sensor at bottom was an early electronic current meter, used to…

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Baby Pictures

Baby Pictures

The tiny offspring of two species of deep-sea corals from Antarctica changed from shapeless larvae (left) into tiny, tentacled corals (right) within 24 hours of brooding. Biologist Rhian Waller of…

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Core-al Samples

Core-al Samples

Jessica Carilli, a graduate student from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, holds two core samples that she and WHOI marine chemist Konrad Hughen have just drilled from a colony of…

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Drunken Crabs

Drunken Crabs

Through a series of field observations and laboratory experiments, graduate student Jennifer Culbertson, marine chemist Chris Reddy, and colleagues found that the burrowing behavior and other biological traits of salt…

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Sweet Hitchhiker

Sweet Hitchhiker

This sea urchin was collected from the ocean floor near the Galapagos Rift in June 2002. The hitch-hiking urchin was found in the basket on the front of the Alvin…

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Surf’s Down

Surf's Down

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Alex Apotsos (front), research assistant Levi Gorrell, and scientist Mike Forte (with hat) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, survey changes in beach shape in…

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Dreams of Atlantis

Dreams of Atlantis

The research vessel Atlantis II was officially launched on September 8, 1962, at the Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Co, though it was not until the next year that she made…

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St. Louis Has Nothing on This Arch

St. Louis Has Nothing on This Arch

Fogbows usually appear in the Arctic Ocean whenever overcast skies clear, as water droplets in the fog reflect and refract the beams of sunlight. The bow of the Swedish icebreaker…

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Ocean on a Table

Ocean on a Table

WHOI physical oceanographer Claudia Cenedese (left) and Rachel Bueno de Mesquita, a visiting researcher from the University of Rome, developed this laboratory experiment to study fluid flow and eddies around…

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Cold Pillows

Cold Pillows

The camera on the new Camper towed underwater vehicle photographed these pillow lavas on the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean along the Gakkel Ridge in mid-July 2007. Researchers have been…

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Saving Face

Saving Face

Even in the springtime, the air and winds in the Arctic can be so cold that skin grows raw and wind-burned after just a few minutes. The moisture in your…

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It’s a Gas

It's a Gas

Methane seeping from the seafloor sustains microbes that serve as the base of the food chain for communities of animals, like these tubeworms, which thrive in the sunless depths. Far…

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Buoy Riders

Buoy Riders

Service calls to buoys in the middle of the ocean are anything butroutine. In April 2006, research specialist Frank Bahr and senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord from the WHOI Upper…

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First Timer

First Timer

Silhouetted in the early morning twilight, MIT/WHOI graduate student Carly Strasser waves farewell to her shipmates before boarding the Alvin submersible for her first dive. Strasser was accompanied by Monika…

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Science Gear in Deep Freeze

Science Gear in Deep Freeze

Crates and bins of science gear from WHOI and five other institutions were stacked up outside a research warehouse at the airport in Resolute Bay, Canada, in April 2007. Every…

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CSI Woods Hole

CSI Woods Hole

Bridgett Dunnigan of the National Marine Life Center and Joy Reidenberg of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine examine a 900-pound leatherback turtle during a necropsy in May 2007.  Many…

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Lighting Up the Abyss

Lighting Up the Abyss

A new light-emitting diode (LED) system built by Deep Sea Power & Light was recently tested on the Alvin submersible during engineering dives in June off San Diego. The green…

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Time to Check the Data

Time to Check the Data

Physical oceanographer Bob Weller and engineering assistant Sean Whelan examine, inspect, and remove sensors from the long wave radiation and short wave radiation modules on the CLIMODE-2 buoy. The CLIVAR…

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ITP Goes Sledding

ITP Goes Sledding

WHOI research associate Rick Krishfield and engineering assistant Kris Newhall take part of an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) for a sled ride between a warehouse—where they tested and prepped it—and outdoor…

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