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Love that Dirty Water

Love that Dirty Water

Meltwater carrying finely ground glacial till is visible from the air as researchers prepare to deploy instruments into a West Greeenland fjord by helicopter. WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo […]

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Winch Work

Winch Work

Researchers monitor the deployment of a SeaCycler, part of a Global Subsurface Hybrid Profiler Mooring installed at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific in the summer of 2013.  The […]

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Core Knowledge

Core Knowledge

Interns Chris Eustis and Brecia Douglas from Northeastern University help organize sediment core samples collected from all over the world. WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group collects and analyzes these cores […]

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Gliding into the Future

Gliding into the Future

A snow petrel floats over ice and water in Antarctica. With the southernmost breeding range of any bird on Earth, snow petrels are superbly adapted to their extreme environment. But […]

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Eye Spy

Eye Spy

A Northwest Atlantic gray seal bobs in the water between Chatham and Monomoy Island at high tide in September 2013. In these waters, they feed primarily on small, bottom-dwelling […]

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High Performers

High Performers

At the annual Employee Recognition Celebration, the 2013 Penzance Award was given to the staff of the WHOI Library and Archives. Since 1989, the award has been given to […]

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Kayak Cruise Control

Kayak Cruise Control

A yellow “JetYak” cruises close to West Greenland’s Sarqardliup Glacier while keeping researchers out of harm’s way of its calving icebergs. WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh developed this autonomous surface […]

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Go-to Guy

Go-to Guy

Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (right) helps deploy a sediment trap from the fantail of research vessel Knorr in 2012. Ossolinski is the 2013 recipient of the Ryan C. Schrawder […]

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Understanding the Warming Arctic

Understanding the Warming Arctic

WHOI mooring technician Jim Ryder (center) and members of the crew aboard the R/V Lance work to remove an instrument that measures temperature and salinity from the mooring wire […]

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Tag, You’re It

Tag, You're It

Daniel Webster, of the Cascadia Research Collective, tags a spotted dolphin with a WHOI DTAG off the coast of Kona, Hawaii in May 2013. Biologist Read More

Remove Before Flight

Remove Before Flight

A deep-sea submersible may not have keys, but it does have one very important piece of equipment that needs to be accounted for before every dive: a pin that holds […]

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Keep it Clean

Keep it Clean

Benjamin Birner, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from Jacobs University in Bremen, at work in the Clark Clean Lab on WHOI’s Quissett campus. “Clean labs” are designed to prevent […]

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Glistening Glaciers

Glistening Glaciers

On the way to the high Arctic to study how the polar ocean circulates, the crew aboard the Norwegian research vessel Lance took in this scenic sight—the glacial tongues of […]

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A Drop in the Ocean

A Drop in the Ocean

Viewed from outer space, Earth has been called the Blue Planet. But if you could pull all the water in the ocean, the atmosphere, groundwater and surface water […]

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