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Paint Job
Brian Hogue, a WHOI engineering assistant in the Physical Oceanography Department, paints “the cage” section of an ocean current monitoring instrument (the vector averaging current meter) in the paint booth…
Read MoreNew England Mud Time
WHOI Research Associate Bruce Keafer digs into a pile of muddy sediment from the bottom of the Gulf of Maine. Keafer and colleagues worked in that North Atlantic basin in…
Read MoreHorsing Around in Iceland
WHOI researchers and graduate students were greeted by hundreds of horses, wild and domestic, while trekking through the west coast of Iceland. The WHOI group made the field trip the…
Read MoreDay is Done
The Sun sets over the North Atlantic, as viewed through the hatch of the wet lab on the research vessel Oceanus in November 2006. (Photo by Frederick Woodruff, Energy Advisors,…
Read MoreASIMET Buoy Designs Over the Years
Three’s Company
Three Pacific white-sided dolphins sped alongside the research vessel Atlantis during an October 2006 transit along the Oregon coast. “A school of perhaps 200 of them surrounded us for a…
Read MoreRide ’em, Cowboy
Alvin pilot Valentine Wilson sits atop the research submarine, shown in its earliest incarnation in 1966 (the external shape and design have been altered a bit over the years). After…
Read MoreIce Chips
Jeremy Kaspar, a graduate student from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, keeps a watchful eye on the sea ice crowding the Chukchi Sea in September 2003. Working aboard the…
Read MoreBright Idea
Engineers Hugh Popenoe, Norm Farr, and Terry Hammar test a new optical modem system for the first time in the fall of 2006 on the dock in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.…
Read MoreEmbarking on a New Voyage
New graduate students from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography gather on the rear deck of the Corwith Cramer, an educational sailing ship operated by the Sea Education Association. Every…
Read MoreThe Sun Also Sets
The crescent Moon watches over the painted sky of sunset in December 2006 in the equatorial Pacific Ocean off of Mexico. The A-frame of the research vessel Atlantis and the…
Read MoreThe Seafloor Fights Back
While attempting to drive a piston corer into the compacted shelf sediments beneath the Chukchi Sea during a 2002 expedition, ocean researchers found themselves coping with bent and mangled equipment.…
Read MoreFirst Glacier I See Tonight
Elephant Island and its glacier greeted the scientists and crew of the research vessel Laurence M. Gould on December 1, 2004, as they cruised toward Antarctica’s Palmer Station. “It was…
Read MoreSlice of History
A slice through the center of a long-dead brain coral is a slice through human and ocean history. This 1,000-pound coral grew near Bermuda for 200 years. WHOI Research Associate…
Read MoreTie a Yellow Ribbon (4.5 mile version)
At Puget Sound Ropes in Anacortes, Washington, the first few meters of a new synthetic rope are flaked into a shipping container (left). The rope, blended from two ultra-high strength…
Read MoreFrom blueprint to reality
Geoff Ekblaw works from engineering drawings (foreground) while welding the foundation mounts for solar panels that will sit atop a moored buoy. A senior fabricator and welder, Ekblaw has spent…
Read MoreWhat’s in a Name?
When Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott captured a specimen of a worm-like hagfish during a dive in the depths of the Pacific in March 2005, he recalled thinking it was “cool…but…
Read MoreUp Close and Personal
WHOI researchers had a close encounter with this humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)during an expedition on Stellwagen Bank, off the coast of Massachusetts. Biologists have been tagging humpbacks and right whales…
Read MoreWhere Will It Go?
Summer Student Fellow Tomasso Ascarelli (from the University of Rome) and WHOI Senior Scientist Jack Whitehead (foreground right) examine the flow of dye in a fluid dynamics experiment. The blue…
Read MoreLuck of the Alvin
Forty one years ago this week, Alvin pilots Bill Rainnie and Marvin McCamis located an unexploded hydrogen bomb that had accidentally been dropped into the Mediterranean Sea two months earlier…
Read MoreBreak on Through
The Canadian coast guard icebreaker Louis St. Laurent stands tall above the ice-capped Beaufort Sea. Since 2003, researchers from WHOI, the Canadian Institute of Ocean Sciences, and the Japan Marine…
Read MoreHunting for Water
Gear and instruments for the CLIVAR Mode Water Dynamics Experiment (CLIMODE) is stacked on the deck of the research vessel Oceanus, while crew members prepare to cast a conductivity-temperature-depth rosette…
Read MoreSpinning a Yarn About the Sea
As principal instructors for the Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program in 1968 the topic was “general circulation of the ocean” physical oceanographers Henry Stommel (left) and Lou Howard hopped…
Read MoreHitching a ride
As the science team and crew of R/V Oceanus steamed home from the Gulf of Maine in November 2006, a cormorant perched itself on the side rail of the ship.…
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