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Line Out
WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group member Meghan Donohue keeps an eye on the mooring line as she leads recovery of a Global Surface Mooring during a recent […]
Read MoreScience on the Pier
Senior engineering assistant Diana Wickman (right) talks with visitors to the WHOI pier at the recent Woods Hole Science Stroll. On the table in front of her is a […]
Read MoreAn Eye on Ice
This eerie twilight photo of the research vessel Neil Armstrong was taken earlier this month in waters off of Greenland by a new camera system called IceCam. It consists […]
Read MorePilot Project
While the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong prepared a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) mooring line for deployment southeast of Greenland recently, they were visited by a large pod of pilot whales. […]
Read MoreSurface View
Surface moorings in the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative have buoys that are among the largest and most complex platforms of their type deployed in the ocean. That includes buoys […]
Read MoreSunset Deployment
With sun setting in the North Atlantic, WHOI technicians pay out a mooring from the fantail of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The mooring is part of the Pioneer […]
Read MoreHeaded North
The research vessel Neil Armstrong left Woods Hole recently for its annual visit to the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array located in the Irminger Sea southeast of Greenland. […]
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
The rear deck of R/V Neil Armstrong was full of gear—including these 7,700-pound mooring anchors—as the ship left on a recent three-week cruise to recover and deploy instruments at […]
Read MoreTaking a Mooring’s Temperature
WHOI engineers don’t usually hang out inside walk-in refrigerators, but research engineer John Reine found himself doing just that. Reine needed to test the efficacy of heaters added onto a […]
Read MorePacking for Sea
WHOI engineering assistant Cody Meissner packed synthetic line in the WHOI Rigging Shop recently for a deployment, scheduled for autumn 2017, of an Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array Read More
Holding It Together
WHOI engineering assistant Chris Basque splices wires from an electromechanical (EM) chain—the large black rubber tube—to a black-and-blue coiled “pigtail” cable. This EM chain is part of a surface mooring […]
Read MoreMother on Board
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue changes the rigging on top of a subsurface float, part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array in the South Atlantic Ocean. In […]
Read MoreGetting Their Feet Wet
WHOI engineering assistant Chris Basque (foreground) pays out a tag line from the stern of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to a 62-inch flotation sphere he just helped deploy while other members […]
Read MorePreparing for the Season
Biologist Heidi Sosik briefed WHOI volunteers recently on the new NSF-funded Long-term Ecological Research site that she helped establish off the Northeast U.S. coast. The NSF-funded site will extend […]
Read MoreIrminger Sea Recovery
In 2016 in the Irminger Sea near Greenland, WHOI Deck Operations Leader John Kemp (left of floats at the deck edge), other members of the WHOI Mooring Group, […]
Read MoreA School for Alewives
Northeast U.S. coastal waters are known for their productive fisheries, and alewife are a big food source for commercial species. WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz investigates the factors that affect the Read More
WHOI Women Wear Red
Wearing red in recognition of International Women’s Day yesterday, WHOI engineers and assistants check out a newly-developed in-line instrument frame. Three in-line frames will be added to the surface […]
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