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Listening In
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate Max Kaplan positions a DMON acoustic recording device on Helen Reef, the southernmost island of Palau, in the far western Pacific. The DMON records sounds produced…
Read MoreA Dock Away From Home
Former WHOI engineer Greg Packard inspects a docking station designed and built by Hydroid, Inc. for the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. Two of these stations will be deployed to the…
Read MoreThe Sea’s Bounty
A collection of copepods fills a specimen dish to be identified and counted. Scientists on board the research vessel Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa collected the sample off the northeast coast of Japan in June 2011…
Read MorePiece of the Deep
WHOI marine chemist Frieder Klein identifies a piece of a hydrothermal vent chimney collected from the Piccard vent field on the Mid-Cayman Rise by the remotely operated vehicle Jason during the Oases 2012 cruise. MIT/WHOI Joint Program student…
Read MoreKnorr’s Final Mission
The R/V Knorr waits at home port in mid-October before departing on its final mission. After heading to the Mid-Atlantic Bight to support an installation of the Pioneer Array (one…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
This 1967 photo shows the research submersible Alvin in the water with two support swimmers, as crew watch from Lulu, the sub’s first tender ship. WHOI still operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence…
Read MoreReady for Download
In 2003, scientists traveled to the Beaufort Sea to collect instruments, called moored profilers, that had spent the previous year at least a mile under Arctic ice gathering data about ocean currents. As…
Read MoreBird’s Eye View
This aerial photo of Woods Hole village shows the two large WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis, left, and Knorr, right, at the WHOI dock overlooking Great Harbor. Many improvements have been…
Read MoreHigh Wire Act
Steve Faluotico of WHOI’s Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department cleans a sensor on the meteorological mast on R/V Knorr during the September 2012 SPURS cruise to study how salt content fluctuates in the ocean’s upper layers…
Read MoreOcean in Miniature
WHOI engineer Bob Tavares headed up to the roof of the Clark South building recently to check on an Argo SOLO-I float deployed in the 10-meter test well. The Argo network consists…
Read MoreHalo Below
A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Martha’s Vineyard…
Read MoreHunt for Life
Postdoctoral investigator Maria Pachiadaki (left) and Shipboard Scientific Services Group(SSSG) technician Allison Heater deploy Deep-SID, a robotic biology laboratory designed for the deep ocean. The instrument collects water samples and mixes…
Read MoreTioga at Ten
WHOI’s coastal research vessel, R/V Tioga, gets some attention in port from crew member Ian Hanley (left) and Captain Ken Houtler. Equipped with water samplers, a current profiler, an echo-sounder,…
Read MoreUp From the Depths
WHOI-MIT graduate student Santiago Herrera examines a group of amphipods recovered from the Kermadec Trench in the spring of this year. Herrera and a team led by WHOI biologist Tim…
Read MoreReef Ray
A manta ray glides over a coral reef on Jarvis Island in the Central Equatorial Pacific. A team including MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Liz Drenkard and Alice Alpert, from WHOI…
Read MoreIn His Element
WHOI senior research specialist Jim Broda stands on deck of R/V Knorr in front of the Long Core system’s main winch just prior to Knorr‘s departure from WHOI on its…
Read MoreAll Hands
Technicians aboard the research vessel Melville deploy a wire-following profiler as part of a Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The Station Papa installation is a key step in the Ocean Observatories Initiative,…
Read MoreLove That Dirty Water
Meltwater carrying finely ground glacial till is visible from the air as researchers prepare to deploy instruments into a West Greeenland fjord by helicopter. WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo led a team…
Read MoreBaffled by the Bloom
Scientists and students on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather around a computer to learn how to to guide a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) package to the seafloor and back. …
Read MorePlankton Under Ice
In May and June 2014, a cruise co-led by WHOI scientist Bob Pickart aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy went to the Arctic to study large phytoplankton blooms forming…
Read MorePlankton Pump
Amy Maas, a postdoc in the labs of WHOI biologists Gareth Lawson and Ann Tarrant, joined fellow postdoc Mike Lowe in testing a plankton pump aboard the R/V Tioga in…
Read MoreTo Sea Once More
The research vessel Knorr left Woods Hole on Sunday for the final cruise of its career at WHOI. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled more than one million miles in support of research on…
Read MoreSlow and Low
A helicopter flies back from the edge of Sarqardliup Glacier in West Greenland, where glacialogist Sarah Das and physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo are studying rates of submarine melting and surface…
Read MoreHigh Seas Shanty
What would sailors do without a sea shantey or two? 3rd Assistant Engineer Vasile Tudoran entertained the science party and crew aboard the R/V Knorr with Romanian folk songs on Day…
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