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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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Engineering assistant Michael McCarthy (left) and senior engineering assistant Neil McPhee work to assemble the surface buoy for a GumbyMoor, a new mooring design that allows the line to stretch…
Read MoreWorth Every (Sand) Dollar
Ensign Greg Dietzen a student in the MIT/WHOI graduate program and a U.S. Navy officer was named this week as the 2007 recipient of the Rear Admiral Richard Pittenger Fellowship.…
Read MoreTesting…1, 2, 3
Research Associate Rick Krishfield, a veteran of more than two dozen Arctic expeditions, tests the electronics and programming of the “Arctic Winch” during the 2005 leg of the Beaufort Gyre…
Read MoreDegree of Honor
With the research vessel Knorr in the background, the first graduates of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering received their diplomas in Woods Hole on June 17,…
Read MoreA Solid Foundation
WHOI mechanical shop member Geoffrey Ekblaw welds part of the frame of the Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle. The HROV is a single vehicle that will perform two very different…
Read MoreSpringtime in the Arctic Circle
From April 1 to 13, 2007, WHOI chemists and geologists explored the Mackenzie River Delta in the Canadian Arctic in search of clues of historic and recent changes in the…
Read MoreRice in a Snow Storm
Biology graduate student Kristen Whalen inspects a gorgonian (also known as a soft coral or sea fan) for a specialist nudibranch that feeds exclusively on this one species. The white,…
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
Dock workers use a crane to lift the 48,500-pound rope storage winch onto the deck of the research vessel Knorr. The winch will hold a fiber rope that was custon…
Read MoreGetting to the Core of the Matter
Geologist Jeff Donnelly (right foreground) demonstrates his techniques for extracting sediment cores from coastal marshes. Donnelly and colleagues have been examining the history of hurricane strikes along the U.S. East…
Read MoreHistory of WHOI Ships
Three Atlantises
Ice, Ice Baby
WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp is lowered in a basket to recover a buoy from the ice during a summer 2004 expedition to study the upper layers of the…
Read MoreChain Gang
MIT/WHOI graduate student Annette Hynes captured this microscope photograph, or micrograph, of a colony of Trichodesmium at 1000x magnification. A form of primitive, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, Trichodesmium are often found in…
Read MoreTotally Tangled Tethers
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kelly Rakow attempts to untangle the tethers attached to her fellow divers during a “blue water” dive off the Pacific coast of Panama. The tether system…
Read MoreYellow Submarine Volcano Watcher
Will Ostrom, Keith von der Heydt, and Neil McPhee (from left to right) prepare to lower and test the base of the Real-time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) buoy off the…
Read MoreWhat’s Left When the Glacier Retreats?
Glaciated ridges tower over Route 1 and the Vatnsskarð mountain pass (west of Varmalið) in Iceland. WHOI students and scientists visited the region in June 2006 as the capstone on…
Read MoreDaily Dose of Vitamins
Graduate student Erin Bertrand (right) and assistant scientist Mak Saito, biogeochemists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution, have found evidence that B12, an essential vitamin for people, also plays a critical…
Read MoreSlug-fest
Brightly colored slugs feed on a variety of sea whips and sea fans that populate tropical coral reefs. “They munch with their modified tooth,” said WHOI biology doctoral student Kristen…
Read MoreWHOTS Up?
Jeff Lord, a WHOI senior engineering assistant, directs the deployment of the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station II buoy. In cooperation with the University of Hawaii and its Hawaii Ocean…
Read MoreStretching for More
WHOI engineers and scientists developed the “Arctic winch” in order to reach up and take critical measurements of surface waters in polar oceans, while minimizing the risk of getting their…
Read MoreShow and Tell Day
WHOI senior engineer Ben Allen (right) shows off the REMUS laboratory to European colleagues participating in the the Galathea 3 expedition. Researchers from Europe made a port call in Massachusetts…
Read MoreJust a little squirt
Sea squirts are tunicates a type of sea life with a firm, rubbery outer covering called a “tunic,” from which the name derives. Sea squirts feed on algae and bacteria…
Read MoreWelcoming Party
Sophie (left) and Nancy Edson await on the WHOI dock for the return of Jim Edson marine meteorologist, husband, and father. A former WHOI scientist, now at the University of…
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