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New Beginnings
On June 7th, WHOI Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jim Yoder will preside over the 2017 graduate reception for the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Ocean Science and Engineering.…
Read MoreDeep-Sea Circulation
WHOI engineer Brian Hogue assembles a new aluminum frame around a Nobska MAVS-4 acoustic current meter. The frame helps to minimize turbulence around the current meter once it is installed…
Read MoreUniting for the Ocean
The president of the United Nations General Assembly, the Honorable Peter Thomson, recently toured WHOI and met with WHOI officials to discuss the UN Ocean Conference on June 5-9. WHOI will participate…
Read MoreWhere Plastic Went
Surface currents flow clockwise in the North Atlantic Ocean, forming the circular pattern called the North Atlantic subtropical gyre (black contour line). In 2010, scientist Kara Lavender Law of the…
Read MoreA Buried Past
WHOI researchers are trying to better understand future storms by studying the past, such as the hurricane of 1938, which devastated Cape Cod and killed hundreds. As a hurricane passes,…
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 surface mooring…
Read MoreEye on the Storm
Hurricane season in the North Atlantic begins on June 1, which means scientists are once again preparing for any opportunity to study large storms. One of the key drivers of…
Read MoreHolding 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 MoreHappy as a Clam
Few things make a deep-sea biologist like Tim Shank happier than obtaining samples of organisms from a hydrothermal vent site on the seafloor. These giant clams were retrieved by the Alvin submersible…
Read MoreSeafloor Warp and Woof
An autonomous underwater vehicle called ABE—for Autonomous Benthic Explorer—systematically “flew” over the seafloor on the volcanic Mid-Atlantic Ridge, midway between Africa and South America, photographing the ocean bottom. Some 3,000…
Read MoreShrimp and Mussel Stew
Shrimp swarms and abundant mussels populate the Logatchev hydrothermal vent field about 3,000 meters (more than 9,800 feet) deep on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, about halfway between the Caribbean Sea and…
Read MoreWhales Are Where?
WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner and acoustic analyst Julianne Gurnee of the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center review data received from a whale monitoring buoy outside New York Harbor. The buoy…
Read MoreBad Sign on a Good Beach
You never want to see a sign like this on a beach, especially right before the traditional Memorial Day start of summer. The waters off beaches are regularly tested to…
Read MoreWHOI, Hollywood, and the Boston Pops
Longtime WHOI employee Dick Edwards, a Navy-trained explosives expert, wires dynamite into the mouth of the mechanical shark used in “Jaws,” the 1975 classic movie about a terrifying shark, based…
Read MoreA Cold Winter Dive
On a midwinter dive, visiting diver Giorgio Caramanna had to wear gloves to re-install an instrument called the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) at WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO).…
Read MoreA Slice of the Ocean
During a visit to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, two future ocean scientists watch a demonstration of how salinity affects the density of water. Higher salinity makes water denser. As this…
Read MoreNeil Armstrong Takes New York
The research vessel Neil Armstrong, shown here working off the North Carolina coast on the Processes driving Exchange at Cape Hatteras (PEACH) project, will participate in Fleet Week in New York City this…
Read MoreLife Below the Waterline
WHOI biologists Peter Wiebe (standing), Joel Llopiz (left) and Chrissy Hernandez, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, watch as data from sensors on the hull of R/V Neil Armstrong scroll across…
Read MoreTo the Breaking Point
Engineering assistant Barbara Callahan operates the computer interface of a hydraulic tensile machine in WHOI’s rigging shop, as shop manager Rick Trask looks on. Callahan and Trask were testing the…
Read MoreUnder Ice
The lights of the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereid Under Ice (NUI) shine beneath an ice floe during a 2016 cruise to search for life on the Arctic sea floor.…
Read MoreAfter Dark in the Park
A team of researchers worked well past sunset on the shore of Yellowstone Lake in 2016 to section and catalog a core they had taken from the lake bed earlier…
Read MoreDeep Garden
The research vessel Atlantis and human-occupied submersible Alvin were in the far north in July 2002 on a cruise supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The mission was to visit six unexplored…
Read MoreStudent Out of Water
Alexandra Labella, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, analyzes a sediment core sample in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly. Labella is one of many students who work at WHOI…
Read MoreSunrise In The Arctic
Sunrise comes to Sachs Harbour, a village on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic that in 2014 was a research hub and equipment center for scientists studying sea ice. WHOI…
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