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Ready for a Big Splash
John Kemp, head of the WHOI Mooring Operations & Engineering Group, directs the deployment of a surface mooring from the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Common moorings, which use anchors and…
Read MoreSaluting the Captain
ROV Jason team members Tito Collasius (in shorts), Scott McCue (right) and Chris Judge (left) fire three shots from a cannon to honor retiring Captain A.D. Colburn’s last departure from…
Read MoreA Parade of Ships
A U.S. Navy Yard Patrol (YP) boat passes the Navy-owned, WHOI-operated R/V Neil Armstrong as it prepares to dock during the Fleet Week Parade of Ships in NYC last May.…
Read MoreA-Frame Job
The research vessel Atlantis is a sophisticated, general-purpose platform in its own right, but it is also specially outfitted to be the support vessel for the submersible Alvin. From 2011 to…
Read MoreBreaking the Surface
A humpback whale surfaces in the icy water off Antarctica, near the U.S. icebreaker Lawrence M. Gould (left). Tyler Rohr, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography,…
Read MoreThe Cable Guy
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason has had a storied career: it has located hydrothermal vent fields, captured footage of the deepest explosive erupting volcano, and rescued seismic equipment encased…
Read MoreI See a Purple Sea Cucumber
A purple elasipodida holothurian crawls on the seafloor more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface at the base of a seamount off the Galápagos Islands. In August 2015, an…
Read MoreControl Group
Inside the control van for the remotely operated vehicle Kraken-2, operators Mike McKee (left) and Dennis Arbige (right) from the University of Connecticut Northeast Underwater Research, Technology & Education Center (NURTEC)…
Read MoreA Full Deck
The research vessel Neil Armstrong heads to the Ocean Observatories Initiative Coastal Pioneer Array about 90 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Every six months, WHOI engineers, scientists, and crew travel…
Read MoreChemical Evidence
WHOI research assistant Paul Henderson watches over a water sampling station in the Northwest Territories, Canada. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Lauren Kipp led the 2016 expedition to study processes on…
Read MoreA Break in the Action
Bosun Pete Liarikos raises a fist to stop the action during the deployment of a multifunction node (MFN) from the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The gray metal…
Read MoreTracking Toxic Invaders
Clinging jellyfish such as this from the coastal ocean near Vladivostok, Russia, are known for toxic stings that cause a wide range of symptoms—severe pain, difficulty breathing, and even hallucinations.…
Read MoreHoming in on Reef Homes
Justin Suca holds a translucent young mantis shrimp off the Caribbean island of St. John where he does field work. Suca, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in…
Read MoreCall of the Wild
An Atlantic white-sided dolphin jumps alongside the research vessel Neil Armstrong off the Massachusetts coast. These animals spend most of their lives in deep waters but are known to strand off…
Read More24/7 Science at Sea
This buoy is part of a Coastal Surface Mooring, one of the ten scientific moorings in the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Wind turbines and solar panels…
Read MoreLunge Feeding
Seagulls circle above as a humpback whale opens its mouth wide to take a great gulp of food-filled water, a behavior known as lunge feeding. The whale will filter the…
Read MoreTracking Fukushima Radioactivity
In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, WHOI geochemist Ken Buesseler organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes from…
Read More88 Years Young
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded on this date in 1930, following the recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. The chairman of the committee, Frank…
Read MoreDigging for Radioactivity
Former WHOI post-doctoral scientist Virginie Sanial sampled groundwater beneath beaches in Japan to look for radioactive cesium-137 from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant accident. To her surprise, she and colleagues found…
Read MoreBleached Coral
A coral at Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea shows the effects of “bleaching.” The phenomenon occurs when ocean temperatures rise and the colorful symbiotic algae hosted in coral tissue…
Read MoreLong Haul
Crabs and shrimp investigate a cast-steel anchor for a mooring resting 125 meters below the surface at the Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory off the Massachusetts coast operated by WHOI and…
Read MoreSnap Chatter
Snapping shrimp usually look something like tiny lobsters, with one front claw much larger than the other. They use their supersized appendage to make a characteristic snapping sound, which may…
Read MoreWorth the Wade
Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma collects shellfish samples in Cape Cod’s Barnstable Harbor as part of a study to determine how much nitrogen they incorporate into their…
Read MorePioneer Turnaround
Twice each year, scientists, engineers, and technicians make three short (7-10 day) trips on the research vessel Neil Armstrong to service and replace moorings that make up the Ocean Observatories…
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