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Leap of Science

Leap of Science

MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Stevens leaps over a stream of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Stevens was part of team (including WHOI scientists Sara Das, Mark Behn, and Jeff…

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Land, Sea, and Air

Land, Sea, and Air

The increased flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica has tripled the contribution of continental ice sheets to global sea level rise over the last 20 years. Since 2008,…

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Brake Bend

Brake Bend

WHOI Fabricator Paul Keith measures the curvature of a titanium panel used to hold flotation foam in place on the submersible Alvin. The grooves in the panel show where it…

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All-weather Friends

All-weather Friends

Henry Bigelow (left) and Columbus Iselin—the founder and second director of WHOI, respectively—stand on the deck of the Institution’s first research vessel, Atlantis. Iselin was a student of Bigelow’s at the…

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Light Work

Light Work

WHOI technicians Christopher Griner and Amy Simoneau tested the fiber optics in the R/V Neil Armstrong’s large cable during the ship’s inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Wash., to San Francisco in…

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Dreams of Summers Past

Dreams of Summers Past

WHOI 2015 Summer Student Fellows Jerry Fontus (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julia Lanoue (Brown University) learned how to deploy a water sampling CTD rosette off the fantail of R/V…

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Testing the Waters

Testing the Waters

Chief mate Dee Emrich (foreground) and other crew members of R/V Neil Armstrong watch a test of the ship’s new CTD handling system. The CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) helps scientists analyze physical, chemical,…

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Planes, Trains & Ships

Planes, Trains & Ships

John F. Kennedy was president and summering in Hyannisport on Cape Cod when this photo of the original WHOI dock was taken in 1962. Pictured are four WHOI research vessels…

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Works in Progress

Works in Progress

R/V Atlantis (left) and R/V Neil Armstrong recently came out of drydock at Detyen’s Shipyards in Charleston, S.C. Atlantis was in for scheduled maintenance, while Neil Armstrong had the remainder of its science gear installed after sailing from Anacortes, Wash.,…

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An Adventurous Life

An Adventurous Life

This photo of Elizabeth Bigelow, wife of founding director of WHOI Henry Bigelow, was taken more than 60 years ago. The Bigelows were wed in 1906, a marriage that Henry…

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Plastic in the Ocean

Plastics constitute the single most common form of debris in the ocean and the volume is growing every year. WHOI microbiologist Tracy Mincer discusses the impacts of plastic marine debris–and…

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Rack ’em Up

Rack 'em Up

Engineer Loral O’Hara designed new racks to carry equipment on the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. The racks hold pressure housings—the titanium bottles that house the electronics…

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Award for Robotics

Award for Robotics

Speaking at WHOI in December 2014, Pamela Goldberg, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), had high praise for WHOI’s Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) and its potential to spur…

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Looking Ahead

Looking Ahead

Over the course of nearly six decades at WHOI, Hartley Hoskins has been an integral part of the Institution’s fabric. He sailed on R/V Oceanus when the ship was delivered to…

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Summer Sampling

Summer Sampling

WHOI summer student fellow Claudia Mazur (left), of Mount Holyoke College, and guest student Alec Cobban, of Dartmouth College, sampled sediments in West Falmouth Harbor in August 2015. Both spent…

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Traditions

Traditions

The heading blocks that tell watchstanders on R/V Neil Armstrong the direction the ship is supposed to be traveling share a console with the slightly higher tech dynamic positioning control.…

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A Cut Above

A Cut Above

WHOI machinist Timothy Kling cuts titanium into a component for the frame of the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. He is using a water jet, which directs…

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Raking it In

Raking it In

A clam rake is the instrument of choice for MIT-WHOI joint program student Megan May as she hunts for clams at Little Island Beach in Falmouth. May is using genetic…

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Current Monitor

Current Monitor

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Isabela Le Bras stands in front of a flotation sphere on R/V Knorr in the North Atlantic. The sphere keeps a mooring, a string of instruments…

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Gliding Away

Gliding Away

WHOI scientist Al Plueddemann (center) and engineers Aidan Alai (left) and John Lund (right) prepare a glider for deployment. Gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that moves through the ocean by changing their…

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Wired Right

Wired Right

Derek Bergeron, relief chief mate for R/V Neil Armstrong, helped change wires while testing the main traction winch during the ship’s inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Washington to San Francisco in November. The…

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Tangled Up

Tangled Up

Entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. When whales become tangled in fishing gear, such as buoys, and lobster and crab…

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Sea Level Link

Sea Level Link

WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz analyze data on currents collected off Cape Hatteras. Gawarkiewicz studies the currents along and across the continental shelf. Gawarkiewicz,…

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Get On Board

Get On Board

WHOI friends and supporters aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong during the ship’s 2015 inaugural trip, watched as the ship entered the Panama Canal. A part of the U.S. academic research fleet, R/V Neil Armstrong…

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