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Do We Have Everything?

Do 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…

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A Simpler Time

A 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)

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View from Below

View 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…

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A Tight Fit

A 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…

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Almost There

Almost 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…

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High Tech

High 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)

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Colossal Coral

Colossal 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)

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Round and Round

Round 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…

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Easy Does It

Easy 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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Riding High

Riding High

Kristy Aller and Jenny White use a personnel carrier to collect samples of newly formed pancakeice in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, for primary production analysis aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer during the…

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Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

The submersible Alvin is framed by its launch/recovery system in a stern view of R/V Atlantis during a cruise off San Diego near San Clemente Island to study seafloor formation.…

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Marine Forensics

Marine Forensics

Michael Moore prepares a 12-foot Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) for a necrospy at the new necropsy/CT scanning facility at WHOI for forensic studies to try to determine what may have caused…

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Gulf Stream Glider

Gulf Stream Glider

Senior Scientist Breck Owens, aboard the R/V Henry Stommel from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, downloads data from the Spray glider after its first successful crossing of the Gulf Stream.…

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View from the Top

View from the Top

WHOI geochemist Ken Sims and climber Dennis Jackson overlooking Masayavolcano in Nicaragua. By gathering gas samples from volcanoes worldwide, Sims is exploring how Earth is evolving and how volcanic gases cause climate…

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A Celebration to Remember

A Celebration to Remember

Marine Biologist Rudy Scheltema pauses during a climb of a volcanic crater on Deception Island two years ago. Rudy recently celebrated his 80th birthday during a research expedition to Antarctica…

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Skilled Hands

Skilled Hands

Carl Johnson runs a sample in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, part of the WHOI Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry Facility. The facility provides specialized, state-of-the-art analytical services for marine…

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On Top of the World

On Top of the World

Rick Krishfield prepares a mooring for deployment in the Arctic Ocean, part of circulation and climate studies for the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project. The field program began in 2002 and…

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Coring for Clues

Coring for Clues

A diver collects a sample from a coral in Honduras for climate studies. The coring does not harm the colony, which continues to grow. (Photo by Konrad Hughen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Heavy Lifting

Heavy Lifting

Helicopter pilot Christopher Swannell transfers mooring gear to the research site in the Arctic during the Beaufort Gyre Observing System expedition in 2005. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic…

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Colorful Collectors

Colorful Collectors

Researchers retrieve a “holey sock” drogue (blue cyclinder) and an antenna unit from a second trap (orange/yellow device) near Hawaii during the VERTIGO experiment. The results will help improve computer…

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All Together Now

All Together Now

Scientists and crew aboard the research vessel Knorr recover a sediment core from the seafloor during a cruise off the U.S. East Coast. Cores provide evidence of changes in the…

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Hardhat Heaven

Hardhat Heaven

A pile of yellow hardhats, which cover glass spheres and are used as flotation on moorings, cover the fantail of the USCG icebreaker Healy. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole…

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Stars of the Sea

Stars of the Sea

A brisingid or seastar rests on an East Pacific Rise lava formation at a depth of 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles). These filter feeders hold their arms aloft in the water…

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Data Delivery

Data Delivery

Dan Torres extracts data collected by acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCPs) aboard ship. Scientists use the instrument to measure how fast water is moving across an entire water column. (Photo by…

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