WHOTS Up?

Jeff Lord, a WHOI senior engineering assistant, directs the deployment of the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station II buoy. In cooperation with the University of Hawaii and its Hawaii Ocean Timeseries (HOT) project, the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group  set the mooring in the central Pacific to provide long-term, high-quality measurements of the exchange of heat, gases, and water between the ocean and atmosphere. (Photo by Al Plueddemann, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)