Multimedia Items
International Delivery
R/V Knorr departed the WHOI dock in June for Reykjavik, Iceland, with a full load of moorings, buoys, and instruments, some of which are visible on the ship’s upper decks.…
Read MoreAlvin Gets a Makeover
The submersible Alvin recently completed a major upgrade and is now back exploring the ocean. Some of the major improvements include a new, bigger, and more ergonomic personnel sphere, a…
Read MoreSeeing in 3-D
Bill Lange, Director of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Originally published online August 1, 2010
Read MoreWhy it’s important to map Titanic
Bill Lange, Director of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Originally published online August 1, 2010
Read MoreWhat We Can Learn from Titanic
Bill Lange, Director of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Originally published online August 1, 2010
Read MoreBest Foot Forward
Masters and doctoral graduates from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program celebrate at a reception held on June 4, 2014. From left to right, Chris Follett, Dan Ohnemus, Mark VanMiddlesworth, Dan Amrhein,…
Read MoreVehicle Overboard
In 2010 WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (left) and Summer Student Fellow Jonathan Fincke deployed a towed vehicle called “HammarHead” from the research vessel Connecticut. HammarHead, named for its designer, engineer…
Read MoreUnder Wraps
Scott Worrilow, former supervisor of the Sub-surface Mooring Operations Group, wraps a protective canvas “diaper” around the junction between two lengths of wire rope during the final Line W cruise in…
Read MoreCrab Cycle
When Joanna Gyory, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program student, visited the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama, one rainfall determined her thesis project. Just days after the year’s first rain, thousands of…
Read MoreCorals and Climate
Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (left) and marine chemist Konrad Hughen drill cores from a colony of the coral Porites lobata in the Federated States of Micronesia. In the foreground, sections…
Read MoreAlvin‘s Animals
Alvin‘s Fun Facts
Hooking the Catch
WHOI guest student Alessandro Silvano attaches a tag line to the frame of a CTD sensor during the final Line W cruise aboard the RV Knorr in May. For the…
Read MoreOverseeing the Observatory
Physical oceanographer Al Plueddemann stands in the shadow of a surface buoy aboard the R/V Knorr in April 2014. The buoy serves as flotation for a surface mooring in the…
Read MoreAbout AIVL
Originally published online August 1, 2010
Read MoreSecuring the Base
WHOI engineer John Kemp (left) and a member of the R/V Knorr crew prepare the base of a coastal high power surface mooring (CHPSM) for deployment on the continental slope 80 miles…
Read MoreLife on Ice
Just as a rainstorm in the desert can cause the landscape to explode with wildflowers, the annual sea ice melt can cause phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean to bloom. The…
Read MoreSounding the Bottom
One of the most powerful tools oceanographers use to map the bottom of the ocean is multibeam sonar, which uses sound waves to reveal the outline and surface characteristics of…
Read MoreScience Scaffolding
Dongsha Atoll is a remote coral reef ecosystem in the South China Sea that is about two meters below sea level. With no solid ground from which to work, researchers…
Read MoreMagnetic History
Clindor Cacho, a crewmember on R/V Knorr handles a tag line to steady the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry while recovering the vehicle in 2013 near Barbados. Sentry carried a…
Read MoreRobotic Reef
Katie Shamberger, assistant professor at Texas A&M University, checks the Remote Access Sampler (RAS) on Dongsha Atoll, a coral reef ecosystem in the South China Sea. The RAS is a…
Read MoreA Weighty Moment
WHOI engineer Don Peters, right, and Pat Hickey, former head of the Alvin Operations Group, watched as the newly upgraded submersible was weighed in the WHOI Highbay in January 2013.…
Read MoreBongo Solo
Bongo nets are a staple of biological oceanographers who study zooplankton. Named for their paired construction, the bongo net actually consists of two nets, one with a courser weave to…
Read MoreRoad to Recovery
Crew members of R/V Atlantis prepare to head out in the Avon, a tender boat, to meet the human occupied submersible Alvin after a day-long dive to the seafloor. When…
Read More