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A Little Left Rudder…
Rick Rupan instructs students from the Children’s School of Science in Woods Hole in remotely operated vehicle (ROV) piloting at a local motel’s pool. The students designed and built the…
Read MoreMarine Mosaic
Mosaic of the R/V Thomas Thompson aft deck, full of moorings and other equipment for studies of the Kuroshio Extension Current off Japan, similar to the Gulf Stream in the…
Read MoreAre We Having Fun Yet??
Clothed in red neoprene “gumby suits,” participants in one of the Institution’s small boat safety seminars have some fun during training.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreSwinging in the Breeze
The main lift line for the submersible Alvin is visible from the research vessel Atlantis A-frame. The sub is generally recovered in the late afternoon. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreHigh Profiler
Researchers prepare the high-resolution profiler, or HRP, for deployment. The instrument, used in ocean mixing studies, records temperature, salinity, pressure, and horizontal velocity 10 times per second on descent to…
Read MoreA Hand of a Different Sort
A pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus, resembling a human hand photographed in Honduras. The coral provides clues to past climate changes. (Photo by Konrad Hughen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreSecure that Line
Deck hand Ian Hanley secures equipment on R/V Tioga during attempted right whale tagging off Georges Bank with biologist Mark Baumgartner. (Photo by Amy Nevala, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreWatery Welcome
A member of the science party gets the traditional welcome home greeting after his first Alvin dive during an Atlantis cruise in the North Atlantic. (Photo courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreA Different Era
Captain Adrian K. Lane standing on the wheelhouse of R/V Atlantis, circa 1946. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
Read MoreFishy Patient
Andone Lavery (left) of WHOI and Mike Jech from the National Marine Fisheries Service lab in Woods Hole prepare to conduct a CT scan on an alewife at the WHOI…
Read MoreSouthern Science
The icebreaker Laurence M. Gould at Palmer Station, one of three U.S. research stations on Antarctica operated by the National Science Foundation. Palmer is home to about 45 researchers and…
Read MoreThe Importance of Deep-Sea Corals
Many people think corals thrive only in tropical waters, such as the Great Barrier Reef or the Florida Keys. Biologist Rhian Waller of WHOI talks about deep-sea corals, found in…
Read MoreGolden Spiral
A colony of gold-colored Pegea Socia, a gelatinous creature common off the central and northern California coast. Aggregates form chains in a tight spiral coil. (Photo by Laurence Madin, Woods…
Read MoreMellow Yellow
Researchers work on the WHOI autonomous underwater vehicle SeaBED (foreground), with the Greek submersible, Thetis, in the background. The two vehicles were used in tandem during the Project PHAEDRA 2006 collaborative…
Read MoreSteady as She Goes
Senior machinist Rene Kokmeyer has worked on a variety of WHOI projects. “Scientists come up with the ideas, engineers help with the designs, then we build the instruments. I love…
Read MoreDo We Have Everything?
Researchers climb into an inflatable boat launched from R/V Oceanus to repair a Gulf Stream surface buoy damaged by a ship strike during an experiment at Station W in the…
Read MoreA Simpler Time
Reading a current meter onboard R/V Atlantis, circa 1931. The Institution’s first research vessel had room for six scientists. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
Read MoreView from Below
The autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS is released in Belize during a pilot study of the effect of ocean currents on fish larvae spawned on coral reefs. Similar population studies have…
Read MoreA Tight Fit
A spar buoy built in nearby shops is loaded onto R/V Atlantis for a recent climate cruise in the Northwest Atlantic. It was the largest piece of equipment other than the submersible…
Read MoreAlmost There
Swimmers prepare DSV Alvin for retrieval aboard R/V Atlantis at the end of another dive to the bottom of the sea. The ship and sub are currently at work in…
Read MoreHigh Tech
Dave Schneider works on maintaining the Element2 high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer in the WHOI Plasma MassSpectrometer Facility. (Photo by Lary Ball, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreColossal Coral
A large deep sea coral sample, used in climate change studies, is cut at Fletcher Granite’s Chelmsford Quarry in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. (Photo by Dave Gray, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreRound and Round
Dolioletta gegenbauri, a planktonic colonial tunicate that filters phytoplankton to eat, is about two inches (5 centimeters) long. This species was one of many collected in deep water during a recent Census…
Read MoreEasy Does It
Dave Fratantoni (right), Christina Courcier, and John Lund launch a glider from a coastal vessel during tests in Great Harbor, Woods Hole.The autonomous underwater vehicles can remain at sea a month…
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