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Remove the Water, Carry the Water
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…
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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…
Read MoreTrapped
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…
Read MoreBuoyed by Ice
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…
Read MoreDance by the Sea
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…
Read MoreSearching for Alien Invaders
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…
Read MorePillars of education
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…
Read MoreRoll with it
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…
Read MoreEggs for Breakfast
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…
Read MorePool Party
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…
Read MoreThe Top of the Bottom
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…
Read MoreCollecting Souvenirs
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…
Read MoreThe Loadout
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…
Read MoreSaving a New England Icon
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.…
Read MorePots of gold
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…
Read MoreWhere are the deck chairs on this cruise?
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,”…
Read MoreThe Hagfish Capture
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 ::…
Read MoreRing 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…
Read MoreMOCNESS Monster
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…
Read MoreMarvelous night for a moondance
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…
Read MoreDisco strobes for the seafloor
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…
Read MoreAlvin in Photos
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Read MoreAlvin in Photos
Aqua Man
Graduate students Sigrid Katz (University of Vienna) and Carly Strasser (WHOI) greet Alvin pilot Pat Hickey after he completed his 600th dive in the submersible on November 12, 2006. Hickey has…
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