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Tracking North Atlantic Currents
From left: WHOI engineer Andrew Davies, bosun Pete Liarkos, and WHOI engineers John Kemp and Brian Hogue recover a mooring aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong southeast of Greenland. The…
Read MorePioneer Array
Animation of a coastal component of the Ocean Observatory Initiative. Originally published online January 1, 2009
Read MoreGliding Beneath Florence
WHOI oceanographer Robert Todd launched a Spray glider like this toward the path of Hurricane Florence to measure the amount of heat stored in the ocean. Hurricanes are fueled by warm…
Read MoreCanyon Explorers
Yesterday, on the second anniversary of the founding of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument, WHOI deep-sea biologist Tim Shank, submersible pilot Buck Taylor, and photographer Luis Lamar (left…
Read MoreMeasuring Fuel for a Hurricane
WHOI scientists, along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, deploy a meteorological buoy off the research vessel Neil Armstrong near Cape Hatteras in April, 2017. The buoy…
Read MoreRemember the ALAMOs
A U.S. Air Force “Hurricane Hunter” prepares to drop an ALAMO (Air-Launched Autonomous Micro-Observer) float into the ocean in front of a hurricane. WHOI oceanographer Steve Jayne routinely joins the…
Read MoreForecasting Hurricane Intensity
To forecast hurricane intensities more accurately, scientists need to know a critical piece of information: how much heat is stored in the in upper 1,000 meters of the ocean. Hurricanes gather…
Read MoreHandle with Care
The sea raven, is a common bottom-dweller in ocean waters off New England. WHOI postdoctoral investigator Andrea Bogomolni (pictured) and WHOI researcher Alex Bocconcelli encountered this one earlier this summer while doing…
Read MoreThe Calm Before the Storm
WHOI dockmaster Mitch Medeiros hauls a thin “messenger line” tied to a much larger mooring line as part of the docking process for the research vessel Atlantis upon the ship’s…
Read MoreThe Fascination of Discovery
WHOI recently concluded its first expedition to study life in the ocean twilight zone, a joint research cruise with scientists from the National Marine Fisheries Service and University of Connecticut.…
Read MoreShark Research at the Senate
WHOI engineer and SharkCam co-developer Amy Kukulya (center) testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in July. U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) convened the hearing, entitled…
Read MoreWinging It
In 1960, WHOI researchers on the research vessel Crawford devised a novel way of measuring the slope of the seafloor. They took sonar depth measurements from two fixed points about…
Read MoreSentry Returns
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry is a programmable robot capable of remaining submerged for 24 hours or more while carrying out complex physical, chemical, and biological research. The vehicle…
Read MoreWHOI’s First Ocean Twilight Zone Expedition
The Ocean Twilight Zone abounds with life but has remained largely unexplored. A team of researchers led by WHOI acoustic oceanographer Andone Lavery recently returned from the first expedition to…
Read MoreAll the Comforts of Home
Microbiologist Julie Huber participated on a research expedition on the exploration vessel Nautilus recently without leaving home. SUBSEA (Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog) is co-led by WHOI geochemist Chris German to…
Read MoreSome Heavy Lifting
WHOI mechanical engineer Kaitlyn Tradd (foreground) directs deck operations on the NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow during a recovery of the towed vehicle Deep-See. Tradd helped to develop and…
Read MoreMelt Down
Summertime ice melt along the Greenland Ice Sheet has sped up in recent decades, more fresh water to flow into the surrounding ocean. The fresh water carries nutrients and organic…
Read MoreA River in the Ocean
Scientists at WHOI have been studying the Gulf Stream for decades. Physical oceanographer Arthur Rocky Miller, shown here in 1960, came to WHOI in 1946 and was among the first…
Read MoreLearning at Sea
Noa Randall (left), a 2018 Summer Student Fellow (SFF), prepares a submersible thermometer to take the temperature of the water in Buzzards Bay from the research vessel Gulf Challenger, with…
Read MoreAlvin Makes an Exciting Coral Discovery
On August 23, a team made up of Erik Cordes from Temple University, Cathy McFadden from Harvey Mudd College, and HOV Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott made an exciting discovery off the coast…
Read MorePostcard from Hawaii
On the way to the Loih’i Seamount off the coast of the island of Hawai’i, the exploration vessel Nautilus passed the last remaining location where lava has been entering the…
Read MoreReady to Ring
WHOI Ship Operations project manager Pam Clark and RADM Dick Pittenger stand next to a new ship’s bell destined for the research vessel Neil Armstrong when it returns to Woods Hole…
Read MoreAn Unexpected Guest
This young octopus was photographed in a tank aboard the NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow during WHOI’s first ocean twilight zone expedition earlier this month. “Boo,” as the Atlantic…
Read MoreWelcome, Alucia
The research vessel Alucia arrived in Woods Hole, Mass., for the first time on Saturday, August 25. The ship was re-fit in 2011 and, since that time, WHOI has played…
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