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Embarking 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.…
Read MoreCheckout line
WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord keeps an eye on the gear while guiding winch operators as they recover the STRATUS VI moored buoy in October 2006 off of the…
Read MoreFlowers of the Deep
Anemones cover a rock roughly 80 meters (250 feet) beneath the water line on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. The photo was taken by…
Read MoreMussel Building
In a WHOI biology lab, graduate student Diane Poehls Adams is breeding blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, from larvae to mature adults. These mussels experience different genetic selection pressures—leading them to express different genes…
Read MoreChain Gang
Salpa aspera, a jelly-like species of animal found in the Atlantic Ocean, can link into chains several meters long and comprised of as many as 80 individuals. These “salps” form…
Read MoreTaking the Ball and Going Home
Crew members from the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Pierre Radisson use a Zodiac inflatable boat to recover a mooring from Hudson Strait in northeastern Canada in September 2006. The sub-surface…
Read MoreVPR Photo Gallery
Doppler Shift
Engineer Rob Goldsborough of the WHOI Oceanographic Systems Laboratory works to integrate an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) into the electronics of the Tunnel Inspection Vehicle (TIV). WHOI researchers adapted…
Read MoreHigh-wire Act
WHOI researcher Fritz Hess transfers by highline from the USS Hazelwood to Atlantis II during the search for the lost nuclear submarine Thresher in 1963. Making just its second voyage…
Read MoreWhales
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