Moorings & Buoys
Line W: A 10-year portrait of our planet
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online January 1, 2015
Read MoreStudying the Arctic remotely
By Christopher Linder :: Originally published online March 6, 2014
Read MoreITP Recovery: Getting it back out of the ice
ITP Deployment: Getting an instrument through Arctic ice
A Buoy’s Long Strange Trip
Since 2004, WHOI scientists have deployed ice-tether profilers (ITPs) in polar sea ice to monitor changing conditions in the Arctic. ITP 47 found its way to the coast of Ireland.
Read MoreGo Down Jason, Let My Mooring Go
When a trigger mechanism failed to release a key deep-sea instrument, WHOI physical oceanographer Ruth Curry brought together a gung-ho…
Read MoreGo Down Jason, Let My Mooring Go
In 2010, an experiment led by physical oceanographer Ruth Curry put six subsurface moorings on the seafloor to measure deep-sea…
Read MoreASIMET animation
(Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Hugh Powell, Jack Cook :: Originally published online March 30, 2007
Read MoreNASA/WHOI Voyage Set to Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness and Climate
A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic’s saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean’s upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet.
Read MoreWHOI and Ocean Leadership Award McLane Research Laboratories OOI Profiler Contract
WHOI and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership announced McLane Research Laboratories, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide the Wire Following…
Read MoreThe Ghost Mooring
Teacher Juan Botella, who participated in a research cruise in the Southern Ocean, describes the recovery of a decade-lost mooring.…
Read MoreThe Ghost Mooring
Just before leaving for a long-awaited vacation, Scott Worrilow came in to work on a Monday morning in April 2011,…
Read MoreFor Sharks, the Nose Knows
50 Years of the WHOI Buoy Group
Building Them Tough, Bringing Them Back
Fifty years ago, on Dec. 11, 1960, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution set…
Read MoreScientists Find that Squid Can Detect Sounds
The ordinary squid, Loligo pealii, is well known as a kind of floating buffet. “Almost every type of marine organism…
Read MoreA ‘WHOI Way’ of Doing Things
People who have worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution know it in their bones. People who work with WHOI feel…
Read MoreBuoys Help Avert Whale-Ship Collisions
By Lonny Lippsett :: Originally published online July 22, 2009
Read MoreBuoys Help Avert Whale-Ship Collisions
A lot of lines crisscross, run parallel, and ultimately connect in this story. The first line is a watery one…
Read MoreArctic Winch
The Arctic Winch is a small buoyant float (white) attached to the mooring’s red top-float. It carries instruments to measure…
Read MoreIce-Tethered Profiler Deployment
WHOI researchers deploy a new instrument, an Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP). The ITP has a small yellow surface capsule that dangles…
Read MoreLaunching the Mooring
By Fiamma Straneo :: Originally published online March 27, 2007
Read MoreNew Whale Detection Buoys Will Help Ships Take the Right Way through Marine Habitat
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have teamed up with an international energy company and federal regulators to listen for and help protect endangered North Atlantic right whales in New England waters.
Read MoreGoing for the GUSTO (Mooring)
It was the oceanographic equivalent of stopping for milk on the way home. Two years ago, Mike McCartney had left…
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