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Where 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…
Read MoreCatching Zzzs
Fresh from refinishing work, the “Z-drive” propulsion units on the underside of the research vessel Knorr are exposed in a Jacksonville, Fla., shipyard. The shrouded drives can turn 360 degrees,…
Read MoreIce dispenser
A tidewater glacier in Prinz Christian Sound (on the southern tip of Greenland) calves small “bergy-bits,” as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy passes by. The Healy, which today routinely…
Read MoreTales to Tell
Amphorae, the ancient equivalent of today’s 55-gallon steel drums, lie strewn on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Advances in underwater imaging and autonomous vehicles are enabling archaeologists to expand…
Read MoreDrawing the long straw
It took 35 of Jim Broda’s lab-mates and friends to hoist the PVC prototype of a new long-coring pipe outside of WHOI’s McLean Laboratory. The new piston-corer, being installed on…
Read MoreHeavy Seas
WHOI research associate John Lund and senior scientist Bob Weller prepare to deploy an APEX float off the fantial of R/V Oceanus during rough weather in November 2005. The float…
Read MoreTaking the ferry to work
When the 33-year-old bridge over the Eel Pond channel was beingrepaired in 1971, Allyn Vine and colleagues rigged this tire ferry to keepfoot traffic moving along Water Street in Woods Hole. (Photo…
Read MoreSparring with the ocean
Researchers and crew members struggle to deploy a spar buoy in rough seas during a January 2006 cruise of R/V Atlantis for the CLIMODE project. The buoy measured the exchange…
Read MoreTop of the World
Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, where the Iñupiat people rely on the annual migration of bowhead whales to coastal waters for food and for sustaining long-standing cultural traditions. Barrow, the northernmost…
Read MoreWinter in Woods Hole
The two campuses of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are a blend of new, sophisticated science laboratories and quaint, eclecticold houses and estates. Outside the “Carriage House” on WHOI Quissett…
Read MoreHeavy lifting, heavy listing
Researchers aboard the R/V Atlantis II struggle to deploy a conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD) rosette over the side in rough weather during a cruise in September 1981. The cruise was the first…
Read MoreColors of Coral
Viewed in polarized light, this thin section of the skeleton of a Pacific reef-building coral, Acropora gemmifera, looks more like abstract art. The skeleton is made up of millions of…
Read MoreMary Comes Home
One of the U.S. Navy’s newest oceanographic survey vessels, USNS Mary Sears, called in Woods Hole from July 24-26, 2002. The ship tied up within sight of the Bigelow Laboratory…
Read MoreLayers in the Arctic Ocean
(Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Robert Pickart :: Originally published online January 31, 2007
Read MoreSea work can be a handful
WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp displays a handful of cotter pins and the calloused signs of hard work at sea. WHOI researchers have worked extensively in the past few…
Read MorePilot’s Play
Research engineer Matt Heintz demonstrates the manipulator arm of Nereus, the new hybrid underwater vehicle–part autonomous robot, part remote-controlled vehicle–underdevelopment in the Institution’s Deep Submergence Laboratory. The arm is picking up…
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