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Cannonball or Cabbage?

Cannonball or Cabbage?

This specimen of Stomolophus meleagris aka “cannonball jellies” or “cabbage head jellies” was captured for study from the waters around the Liquid Jungle Laboratory in Panama. Biology graduate student Kelly…

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All New Hands on Deck

All New Hands on Deck

June 22 was departure day for new MIT/WHOI Joint Program students making their welcome cruise—which is actually a crash course in oceanographic sampling 101 and seamanship.  All incoming students in…

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Robotic Explorer

Robotic Explorer

The new Puma autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) uses sonar, lasers, and chemical sensors to search wide areas of the ocean floor to detect the telltale signals from hydrothermal vent plumes.…

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Quite a Catch

Quite a Catch

Physical Oceanographer Bob Weller weaves his way through a set of buoys on the ship’s fantail after they were retrieved from the waters around Martha’s Vineyard. The buoys were used…

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Protein Rainbow

Protein Rainbow

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Annette Hynes displays test tubes filled with phycobiliproteins (soluble pigments) extracted from different cultured strains of Trichodesmium, a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. The different colors may indicate varied…

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Test Drive

Test Drive

The new A-frame and grapple equipment for the WHOI long core system are tested on a mock-up of the stren section of the research vessel Knorr in June 2006 at…

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All Hands (and Eyes) on Deck

All Hands (and Eyes) on Deck

WHOI oceanographer Bob Weller assists in the recovery of the STRATUS mooring off the coast of Chile in 2006. Weller and WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord (hands on the…

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Jelly and Fish

Jelly and Fish

This aggregate of salps (Pegea confoederata) and a small fish were collected in the warm waters near the Liquid Jungle Laboratory in Panama. WHOI graduate student Kelly Rakow is conducting…

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Going Camping

Going Camping

The Camera Sampler, or “CAMPER,” towed vehicle is lowered over the stern of the icebreaker Oden during engineering tests in June 2007 in the Arctic Ocean. CAMPER was designed to…

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Water Everywhere

Water Everywhere

Before shipping off on a long cruise to Antarctica in February 2003, MIT/WHOI graduate student (now PhD) Jason Hyatt went hiking in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile and…

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Strong Enough to Bend

Strong Enough to Bend

An 80-foot long ‘jumbo’ piston core is launched from the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy during ice trials off Baffin Bay in July 2000. Flexing during deployment,…

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

The Swedish icebreaking ship Oden steams across a break in the Arctic ice during an engineering test cruise in June 2007, while WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh and colleagues flew in…

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Raw Strength

Raw Strength

Three titanium ingots two are 17,000 pounds apiece, the third is 7,000— arrive at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio for testing after being fabricated at Titanium Metals Mill in…

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Yellow Alert

Yellow Alert

On May 6, 2007, WHOI researchers and technicians deployed the Real Time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) off the coast of Grenada. RTOSS is part of a project to develop new…

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You Parked It Where?

You Parked It Where?

It can be difficult to find a parking space in downtown Siracusa, Sicily, but the crew of the research vessel Oceanus found just the right spot in June 2007. Surrounded…

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Ice Water

Ice Water

WHOI glaciologist Sarah Das who calls herself a “frozen oceanographer” snapped this aerial view of a “supraglacial” lake in the summer of 2003. As the Greenland ice sheet melts, more…

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Staying Afloat

Staying Afloat

Engineering assistant Kris Newhall (left) and senior engineering assistant John Kemp examine and repair floats inside a workshop on the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent during the summer 2005 leg…

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You Can’t Get This Map at AAA

You Can't Get This Map at AAA

The Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) used sonar signals to compile this bathymetric map (the underwater equivalent of topography) of the Susu Knolls area off the coast of Papua New Guinea.…

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Checking It Twice

Checking It Twice

Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord examines pieces of a new inductive-telemetry buoy that WHOI researchers deployed off of Barbados in April 2007. The buoy is the seventh in a series…

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The Newest Arctic Explorers

The Newest Arctic Explorers

Puma and Jaguar are autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to overcome the technical challenges that have long precluded scientific exploration in the deep reaches of the Arctic Ocean. Puma has…

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Booby Prize

Booby Prize

A booby flies by and checks out the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station (WHOTS III) shortly after researchers and technicians deployed it off of Hawaii in June 2006 from the…

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Making the Classroom Come Alive

Making the Classroom Come Alive

Graduate students and scientists gather for a photo postcard from Godafoss, Iceland in June 2006. Every year, MIT/WHOI students in the Geodynamics Program make a field expedition to connect what…

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Drops in the Bucket

Drops in the Bucket

A rack full of Apex floats sit in the main science lab of the research vessel Oceanus, awaiting launch into the North Atlantic as part of the CLIMODE research program. Floats are…

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