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Safe Passage
Icebergs were a common sight around the British icebreaker James Clark Ross during a 30-day summer research cruise along Greenland’s east coast to the high-Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The expedtion, led…
Read MoreShrinking Home
A polar bear tried (and failed) to scramble onto a too-small ice floe in the Denmark Strait in August 2012 during a cruise led by WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart.…
Read MoreAUV Camping
Researchers Jeff Pietro and Amy Kukulya haul a REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) back to camp on the banks of a fjord in Greenland in July 2012. They were…
Read MoreIncoming
In July, six WHOI scientists and engineers traveled to Southwest Greenland to do something never tried before with an underwater vehicle: take an up-close look at the underwater “plumbing system”…
Read MoreTent for One
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,” wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott…
Read MoreReady to Go
WHOI technician Steve Murphy prepares a mooring to be lifted off the deck of the British icebreaker James Clark Ross into the water in August. Murphy was part in one of…
Read MoreIf Found
In the second of two cruises to study the movement of dense water flowing through the Denmark Strait, WHOI oceanographer Bob Pickart returned to the East Greenland coast this summer…
Read MoreEmperor Penguins & Climate Change
At nearly four feet tall, the emperor penguin is Antarctica’s largest sea bird—and one of the continent’s most iconic animals. Unlike other sea birds, emperor penguins breed and raise their…
Read MoreDrilling Down
Every year since 2003, researchers have traveled to the Arctic north of Alaska aboard the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent for a month to study the Beaufort Gyre. In…
Read MoreSimply Sophisticated
The crew aboard the USCGC Healy pushes a just-recovered mooring anchor away from the fantail during a 2011 cruise in the Chukchi-Beaufort Sea. While most mooring components are fairly sophisticated,…
Read MoreAn Icy Burden
Clearing ice from the decks of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy was a regular task for ship’s crew during a 2011 cruise in the Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas. Wintertime Arctic conditions…
Read MoreScanning the Bottom of the World
Grant Ballard of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory scans the open water off Cape Crozier during a 2007 expedition to Antarctica to study Adélie penguins and effects of climate change…
Read MoreGreenland’s disappearing lakes
Associate Scientist Sarah Das studies the relationship between ice sheets and global climate, and that often means long walks on frozen expanses. When lakes on the surface of the Greenland ice…
Read MoreFor the love of rock
One reason geologists love Antarctica: the ice-free areas are frozen in time. There are no rainstorms, roots, worms, or gophers to disturb the landscape, and no leaves, grass, or wildflowers…
Read MoreFlying under ice
A team from the Oceanographic Systems Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) test a REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) 100 vehicle in a frozen pond in New Hampshire to…
Read MoreDigging down to look back
In April 2007, WHOI chemist Tim Eglinton (red cap) and research associate Daniel Montluçon worked to extract a sediment core from the bottom of a frozen lake in the Mackenzie…
Read MoreThick and Thin
A floating piece of ice in the Arctic Ocean matches the colors of white-sand beaches in tropical water, but the temperature is oh, so different! Thin edges of snow-covered ice…
Read MoreIce-Road Corers
WHOI researchers Daniel Montlucon (left), Liviu Giosan (second from left) and two Inuit guides take a break from extracting sediment cores from a frozen Arctic lake. The research team, led…
Read MoreWatching the River Flow
Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Thousands of lakes form every summer on top of Greenland’s glaciers, as sunlight and…
Read MoreLiving on Eggshells
The Russian-operated “ice camp Barneo” was the temporary home of WHOI research specialist Rick Krishfield and engineering assistant Kris Newhall in April 2007. The tents, people, and their gear rested…
Read MoreBatter Up
WHOI engineering assistants John Kemp (swinging the pickaxe) and Kris Newhall (holding the chain) work to remove a large chunk of ice after it has been pulled out of an…
Read MoreDrilling 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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