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Bearing North
The Swedish icebreaker Oden and a science party from WHOI departs Tromso, Norway, for a week of vehicle engineering trials in the Arctic Ocean. In late May and early June, WHOI…
Read MoreCannonball 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…
Read MoreAll New Hands on Deck
June 22 was departure day for new MIT/WHOI Joint Program students making their welcome cruisewhich is actually a crash course in oceanographic sampling 101 and seamanship. All incoming students in…
Read MoreRobotic 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.…
Read MoreQuite 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…
Read MoreProtein 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…
Read MoreTest 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…
Read MoreThere’s Never a Bad Time for Ice Cream
Ship crew members (in blue and yellow) from the Swedish icebreaker Oden and scientists from the Arctic Gakkel Vent Expedition (in orange and blue) take a break for ice cream…
Read MoreAll 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…
Read MoreJelly 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…
Read MoreGoing 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…
Read MoreWater 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…
Read MoreStrong 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,…
Read MoreBreaking 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…
Read MoreRaw 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…
Read MoreYellow 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…
Read MoreYou 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…
Read MoreIce 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…
Read MoreStaying 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…
Read MoreYou 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.…
Read MoreChecking 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreBooby 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…
Read MoreMaking 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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