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Staying On Top of His Work

Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel Ronald H. Brown looms in the distance. Working off the Pacific coast of Chile, the research team has been examining the exchange of heat, moisture, and momentum between the ocean and atmosphere, while also providing data for tsunami detection. (Photo by Sean P. Whelan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)