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Many Hats

Ocean scientists often need to be more than “just” an expert in his or her field of study. While loading the research vessel Cabo de Hornos in Valparaiso, Chile, recently, a WHOI team led by oceanographer Bob Weller found themselves in need of a welder to tack together a 9,000-pound mooring anchor. When none was available, Weller stepped in to finish the job, permitting the group to successfully complete the fourteenth deployment of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station, a long-term observatory that measures surface temperature, air-sea interactions, ocean currents, ocean temperature, salinity, and oxygen in the eastern Tropical Pacific.(Photo by Sean Whelan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)