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Remove the Water, Carry the Water

March 4, 2007

WHOI Associate Scientist Matt Charette (left) and Research Assistant Matt Allen use pumps and instruments deployed on a canoe to collect water samples from Pamet Harbor in Truro, Mass. By…

Flipping out

March 3, 2007

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breached while WHOI researchers were working to tag whales near Stellwagen Bank. No one knows for sure why whales breach the water surface; some researchers…

Trapped

March 2, 2007

Senior research engineer Scott Worrilow (foreground) and boatswain Patrick Hennessy recover a sediment trap from the Pacific Ocean and return it to the deck of the research vessel Atlantis in…

Buoyed by Ice

March 1, 2007

A specialized bulldozer (aka the “Piston Bully”) pulls a shipping container mounted on skis the “Thunder Sled” across the ice cover of Antarctica’s Ross Sea in the middle of a…

Dance by the Sea

February 28, 2007

Members of the lively Woods Hole folk dancing community turned out in October 1977 to help celebrate the return of the research vessel Atlantis II from the longest WHOI cruise up…

Searching for Alien Invaders

February 27, 2007

WHOI Research Associate Mary Carman scans the tidepools near Sandwich Town Beach on Cape Cod to find sea squirts, an invasive, filter-feeding species (genus Didemnum) that has been crowding out…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Mike Krawczynski is dwarfed by exposed columns of basalt in Skaftafell National Park of Iceland. Krawczynski and two dozen colleagues visited the North Atlantic island…

Roll with it

February 25, 2007

The WHOI-operated research vessel Oceanus rolls with the seas as the ship steams toward the Gulf Stream in November 2005. The decks were fully loaded with gear for the CLIvar…

Eggs for Breakfast

February 24, 2007

This egg sac of Euchaeta norvegica, a copepod, turned up in researchers’ plankton nets as they were being towed by the Albatross IV through the waters around Cape Cod. Researchers…

Pool Party

February 23, 2007

WHOI guest student Don Pfitsch (left), MIT/WHOI graduate student Chris Roman (middle, now an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island), and summer student fellow Patrick Serfass (in the…

The Top of the Bottom

February 22, 2007

A core pulled from the top few feet of the floor of the Makassar Strait (near Indonesia) shows the most recently deposited marine sediments. Sediments can be used which enable…

Collecting Souvenirs

February 21, 2007

MIT/WHOI graduate student Christian Miller takes a water sample just downstream from Svartifoss (Black Falls) in Skaftafell National Park, Iceland. Miller and two dozen students and scientists backpacked their way…

The Loadout

February 20, 2007

A moored profiler is lowered into the storage hold of the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in preparation for the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project in August 2005. Moored profilers climb…

Saving a New England Icon

February 19, 2007

Postdoctoral investigator Tim Verslycke works in a WHOI biology lab to understand a shell disease that is contributing to the decline of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, in New England.…

Pots of gold

February 18, 2007

The gold waiting at the end of this North Atlantic rainbow is a rack full of floats on the deck of the R/V Oceanus. The yellow plastic “hard hats” filled…

Where are the deck chairs on this cruise?

February 17, 2007

Northeastern University undergraduate Beth Sosik knits and WHOI senior research assistant Ellen Roosen reads while resting on the fantail of the research vessel Oceanus. They may call it a “cruise,”…

The Hagfish Capture

February 16, 2007

Pilot Bruce Strickrott maneuvers the submersible Alvin toward a new species of deep-sea hagfish and captures it with a suction tube known as a “slurp gun.” By Amy Nevala ::…

Ring of fire

Research specialist Don Koelsch makes final electronic checks on the Near Ocean Bottom Explosives Launcher (NOBEL) on the fantail of the R/V Atlantis II in 1996. Developed at WHOI, NOBEL…

MOCNESS Monster

February 15, 2007

A Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) is launched from the research vessel Ronald H. Brown during the Census of Marine Zooplankton in April 2006. The MOCNESS plankton…

Marvelous night for a moondance

February 14, 2007

Mess attendant Kathryn Eident takes a break from working in the galley to view the rising full moon and calm seas from the deck of R/V Oceanus. (Photo by Sean…

Disco strobes for the seafloor

February 13, 2007

Research associate Terry Hammar of WHOI’s Advanced Engineering Laboratory examines an LED lighting system being developed for several autonomous underwater vehicles (including SeaBED, Nereus HROV, and Jaguar). LEDs offer significant advantages over…