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Technicians aboard the research vessel Melville deploy a wire-following profiler as part of a Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The Station Papa installation…
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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 fish…
Read MoreBlue Planet, Blue Carbon
Alterra Sanchez, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from San Diego State University, readies an optical cell for making pH measurements in a high-precision spectrophotometer. The cell contains a pH indicator…
Read MoreHigh 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 a…
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WHOI engineer Anthony Tarantino explains the design and operation of the Human Occupied Vehicle DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to visitors during a recent WHOI public event, Deep Ocean Exploration: Trenches. DEEPSEA CHALLENGER…
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By Simon R. Thorrold :: Originally published online October 18, 2013
Read MoreA Quest For Resilient Reefs
White Sharks, Gray Seals
2013 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows and WHOI staff members pause for a photo following an afternoon of seal watching aboard the Monomoy Island Ferry. During the trip, biologists Andrea Bogomolni…
Read MoreKayak 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 vehicle…
Read MoreGo-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 Award,…
Read MoreSeafloor Samples
Summer Student Fellow Benjamin Urann (left) and his mentor, geologist Henry Dick, examine slabs cut from igneous rocks collected during a cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge aboard research vessel Knorr.…
Read MoreUnderstanding 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 during…
Read MoreTag, 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 Aran Mooney and Joint Program…
Read MoreRemove 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…
Read MoreKeep 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 contamination…
Read MoreGlistening 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…
Read MoreA 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 into a ball,…
Read MoreUp Close
Recent reports of leaks from the site of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have not deterred researchers from continuing to study the impact and spread of radiation in the…
Read MoreA Spherical View
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President & Director Susan Avery checks out the sphere of the newly remodeled Alvin with Deep Submergence Vehicle expedition leader Bruce Strickrott. Built in 1964 as one…
Read MorePredator or Prey?
WHOI biologist Andrea Bogomolni spoke about some of Cape Cod’s most charismatic predators (and prey) during the WHOI public event White Sharks, Gray Seals on August 7, 2013. Bogomolni studies seals found off the…
Read MoreScience and Poetry
Alice Alpert, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, steers the 72-foot sailboat Seadragon during a cruise to the equatorial Pacific last summer to study corals. Alpert spoke about…
Read MoreA Day at Sea
The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program brings undergraduates to WHOI for a summer of ocean science. A memorable day for students is the annual science cruise on WHOI’s coastal vessel…
Read MoreHistory of Deep Ocean Technology
WHOI engineer and director of National Deep Submergence Facility, Andy Bowen, provided an overview on deep-ocean exploration at the recent WHOI public event Deep Ocean Exploration: Trenches. Bowen’s presentation focused…
Read MoreDistant Ears
Slocum gliders move horizontally by changing their buoyancy at the top and bottom of each pre-programmed dive. More importantly, they move through the water silently. This is allowing a team that…
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