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Grendel’s Lair
End of the Rainbow, Ends of the Earth
In August 2011, R/V Knorr sailed to the North Atlantic to deploy a set of moorings across the Denmark Strait. The moorings will remain in place for one […]
Read MoreLine Across the Denmark Strait
A team from R/V Knorr prepares to deploy a mooring in the Denmark Strait in August 2011. The instruments on the mooring will help measure water flowing through […]
Read MoreCold Feet
Photographer Rachel Fletcher, currently on board the Knorr with WHOI’s Robert Pickart, recently took this picture of kittiwakes on an iceberg off the coast of Greenland. Pickart is leading […]
Read MoreShells in the Sands of Time
A view from the bridge
It’s just another relatively routine autumn day in the North Atlantic for the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr. On an expedition to the Irminger Sea in October 2007, […]
Read MoreA surprising return
One of the “pumps” that helps drive the ocean’s global circulation suddenly switched on again last winter for the first time this decade. The “pump” is in the western […]
Read MoreDeep Waters on the Move
Deep Atlantic Ocean circulation, part of the “global conveyor” system, strongly affects climate. WHOI, U.S. and international researchers launched more than 200 data-gathering floats into the North Atlantic between […]
Read MoreCh-Ch-Changes…
When scientists observed and analyzed four decades of hydrographic data, they found that tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters had become saltier over the course of 40 years (shown in […]
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