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Northern Light

Northern Light

WHOI Research Specialist Jim Broda captured this view of the sunset over the Arctic Ocean, as viewed from USCG icebreaker Healy while it was approaching the North Pole. In September…

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Adventures with Jason

Adventures with Jason

The ROV Jason II and Robert Fuhrmann look on as Mount Tavurvur belches ash. The photo was taken from the deck of R/V Melville as it left Rabaul, Papua New…

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The Big Yellow Ball

The Big Yellow Ball

Researchers and crew on the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Pierre Radisson prepare to deploy a flotation sphere that is part of a sub surface mooring in Hudson Strait. The Arctic…

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Drilling of a Different Sort

Drilling of a Different Sort

John Kemp (standing) with Kris Newhall prepare to drill a hole in the ice in the Beaufort Sea to test ice-melting equipment used to extract instruments frozen in the ice.…

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Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

WHOI Guest Students Catherine Carmichael (left) and Emily Peacock (from the Boston University Marine Program) collect samples at the site of the 1974 oil spill in Winsor Cove of North…

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Tricky Business

Tricky Business

John Kemp is lowered by the ship’s crane to hook a group of floats, as part of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment in 2005.  A 4,000-meter (13,123-foot) mooring was retrieved…

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It’s Just a Fluke

It's Just a Fluke

The fluke of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) creates its own waterfall. Researchers  get up close and personal with whales while tagging them with harmless transmitters for studies of the…

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Lighting the Way

Lighting the Way

This artist’s concept shows the “deep-sea light post” alongside the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason (left) near a black smoker vent on the ocean floor. The light post uses a…

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Clean Room

Clean Room

Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink (foreground) and Summer Student Fellow Jared Singer work in the new PicoTrace Clean Lab, used for the most challenging trace element and inorganic isotope analyses. The lab is…

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Sister Ships

Sister Ships

R/V Oceanus (foreground), operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and R/V Endeavor, operated by the University of Rhode Island, await loading at WHOI’s Iselin Pier. The third sister ship is…

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Photo Opportunity

Photo Opportunity

Graduate Student Brenna McLeod takes advantage of a brief moment of “shore leave” on Peterman Island, Antarctica, to visit with the locals. The icebreaker Laurence M. Gould (background) stopped at…

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A Closer Look

A Closer Look

Geochemist Meg Tivey studies a sample of a hydrothermal vent chimney, looking for clues to its mineral content and how the rock was formed. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole…

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Hands On

Hands On

WHOI Summer Student Fellows Noah Planavsky and Nicholas Jachowski learn seafloor sediment coring techniques from Bruce Tripp on the R/V Tioga. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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In the Lap of Lava

In the Lap of Lava

Geologist Adam Soule sits on his throne of lava in Hawaii. The formation has been built by two decades of volcanic activity: Lava streams down the cliff in narrow pahoehoe…

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Typhoon Alley

Typhoon Alley

Graduate student Jon Woodruff opens a sediment core collected in August 2006 from a coastal lagoon on the remote Japanese island of Kamikoshiki. The lagoon contains material deposited during intense…

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Calypso Calls

Calypso Calls

Jacques Cousteau’s M/V Calypso calls at the WHOI dock, circa 1959.  Bigelow Laboratory is at rear center, Smith Laboratory atright. Cousteau had a long association with the Institution andthe late Director Paul…

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Finding the Way

Finding the Way

Summer Student Fellows learn navigational techniques from Captain Ken Houtler on the bridge of the coastal research vessel Tioga. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Songs At Sea

Songs At Sea

During a 1957 cruise aboard Yamacraw, shipmates gather to make music. WHOI leased the former Navy and Coast Guard Yamacraw ship during 1957-1958 to make eleven cruises in the North…

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Looking Back

Looking Back

A sediment core on the deck of R/V Atlantis, circa 1956. Cores provide clues to historical changes in climate, circulation patterns, volcanic eruptions, and other events recorded on the seafloor.…

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All Arms

All Arms

“Most octopuses will let you get close, maybe even touch them, but normally they’ll try to run once the manipulator gets close,” said Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott, of his encounter…

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Sunset Science

Sunset Science

Frank Bahr deploys a conductivity/temperature/density instrument, or CTD, from the coastal research vessel Tioga off the New Jersey coast during a recent experiment. The instrument measures water temperature, salinity (salt…

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Heavy Handling

Heavy Handling

The handling system for the new long core sampler was recently installed on R/V Knorr at the WHOI dock.  The system, able to collect sediment cores up to 165 feet…

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Urban microbes

Urban microbes

Research Specialist Mark Dennett of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Assistant Research Scientist Linda Amaral-Zettler of the Marine Biological Laboratory deploy a sonde (a sensor to collect water column data)…

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