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R/V Armstrong tracks Arctic freshwater along the southeast Greenland shelf. Assistant scientist Nick Foukal and Research Assistant Jessica Kozik have been deploying surface drifters and profiling floats along the southeast Greenland shelf during the OOI Irminger cruise aboard the R/V Armstrong. The goal of the project is to track meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic as it rounds Cape Farewell at the southern tip of Greenland. The other goal is to avoid icebergs! (Photo courtesy of Croy Carlin and his drone)

Swirling parcels of water, called ocean eddies, spin off from the warm Gulf Stream, the powerful northward-flowing current that hugs the U.S. East Coast before veering east across the Atlantic Ocean. This visualization was generated by a numerical model that simulates ocean circulation. WHOI researchers are studying western boundary ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, and how their behavior can be associated with climate. (Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization © NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)

Mooring floats rise to the surface in a tangle among the sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre. (Photo by Isabela Le Bras, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Isabela Le Bras teaches high school students in Ensenada, Mexico about the Coriolis effect. (Photo by one of her students).

Physical oceanographers from WHOI, NASA, and Univ. of North Carolina at the NASA Ames Hyperwall visualization center examine the evolution of sea surface salinity in a computer simulation. (Photo by Erin Czech, NASA Ames Research Center).

A Spray underwater glider (http://gliders.whoi.edu) on the surface just after deployment from Seychelles Coast Guard Patrol Ship Etoile in the western equatorial Indian Ocean. (Photo by Robert E. Todd, 10 March 2017, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Joe Fellows prepares a syntactic sphere outside the Mooring Lab (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Ryan Laffey prepares glass ball hardhat flotation in the Mooring Lab (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Climate group discussion. Postdoc and summer research students discuss how the ocean affects the water cycle during the last millennium. Ocean properties from the Indian Ocean based on historic observational data are compared with results from computer simulations. (Photo by Justin Buchli , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

A Spray underwater glider on the surface just after deployment in the Gulf Stream offshore of Miami, Florida. Photo by Robert E. Todd, 24 July 2019.