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Mooring in the Making

Mooring in the Making

WHOI welder and fabricator Paul Keith assembles a stainless steel cage for an acoustic modem that will be installed on an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) sub-surface flanking mooring in the Argentine…

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Icy Recovery

Icy Recovery

John Kemp of the WHOI Mooring Operations, Engineering and Field Support Group is lowered in a crane-operated basket from the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent in 2015…

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Profiler Swap

Profiler Swap

Biofouling can be a serious problem for oceanographic equipment that spends any amount of time at the surface or in the upper ocean and was one of the reasons this…

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Microbe ID

Microbe ID

The ocean has two kinds of microbes: Autotrophs use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into organic carbon, while heterotrophs convert organic carbon such as glucose into nutrients. Scientists are developing new tools…

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First in Line

First in Line

A work crew fits the boom to R/V Atlantis‘ new mizzen mast in this undated photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis was the first ship operated by…

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Built Right

Built Right

Tony Delane, WHOI welder and fabricator, assembles the lower frame of a coastal surface mooring. The WHOI Mechanical Shop routinely designs and assembles the platforms and instruments that must weather…

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Arctic House Call

Arctic House Call

Crewmember Daryl Tobin from the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent secures a line on a mooring that had been tethered to the seafloor in the Arctic Ocean. The instrument…

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Dry Dive

Dry Dive

Pilot Jefferson Grau discusses the submersible Alvin’s systems and capabilities with professor Diane Adams, of Rutgers University (left) and Professor Jen Glass of Georgia Tech (right). Alvin was in Woods…

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Down the River

Down the River

During monsoons, the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers export 50 metric tons of carbon-containing sediments per day into the Bay of Bengal. WHOI scientists study rivers around the world to analyze…

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Trieste Leads the Way

Trieste Leads the Way

Fifty-six years ago today, Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh made history by diving inside the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to the deepest known spot in the ocean, the Challenger…

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R/V Neil Armstrong: Panama Canal

On November 23, 2015, R/V Neil Armstrong entered the Panama Canal through the Miraflores Locks on its way from the Pacific to the Atlantic and eventually to the U.S. East…

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Science Under Sail

Science Under Sail

Students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Roman Shor (second from right) of the Sea Education Association (SEA) aboard SEA’s research vessel Corwith Cramer raised a sail during the 2011 Jake…

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Adventures in Science

Adventures in Science

“Science is an adventure, not a career,” WHOI microbiologist Holger Jannasch (1927-1998) once said. Equally at home in the lab or at sea, Jannasch is remembered for making seminal discoveries…

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Outer Space to Inner Space

Outer Space to Inner Space

WHOI scientists are known for the fact that many of them address some of the most immediate and pressing questions of our time. MIT-WHOI graduate student Adam Sarafian, however, is…

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Ships Out of Water

Ships Out of Water

Two vessels in the U.S. academic research fleet, Atlantis (foreground) and Neil Armstrong, rest stern-to-stern in dry dock in Charleston, S.C. The two ships, both operated by WHOI, were hauled out…

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Safe Haven

Safe Haven

An anemone fish finds refuge in its namesake location–an anemone. This pair were photographed in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), a place that has drawn attention from scientists of…

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Grabbing Sediment

Grabbing Sediment

A Van Veen grab is lowered to the seafloor, where the two halves of the scoop will close, “grabbing” a large scoop of sediment and any organisms living in it.…

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A Wonderful Life

A Wonderful Life

Oceanographer Emeritus George Hampson (right) contributed to many studies of invertebrates in marine systems, ranging from the intertidal zone to deep water. He was also one of the pioneering scientists to study…

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Testing the Water

Testing the Water

WHOI supporter Harry Hollum (left) holds a sampling kit that marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler (right) developed to help citizen scientists on the West Coast collect water to be tested for…

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Ice Base

Ice Base

Data from the ice-covered Arctic Ocean are hard to come by because the region is extremely remote and the environment hostile. Scientists and engineers are overcoming these challenges by deploying…

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Roaring Forties

Roaring Forties

A wave breaks over the fantail of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer, drenching several people working on deck during a WHOI-led equipment recovery operation in November 2015. The ship…

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