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The Art of Welding
Geoff Ekblaw, lead welder in the WHOI mechanical shop, prepares to weld part of Alvin‘s titanium frame during the sub’s recent upgrade and re-building process. Light, strong, and corrosion-resistant, titanium…
Read MoreDeep-sea Diver
Throughout June 2013, a team of oceanographers and astrobiologists led by WHOI scientist Chris German will explore one of the deepest mid-ocean ridges, the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center beneath the Caribbean…
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Insights into Alvin
WHOI engineer David Fisichella gives a student from the Perkins School for the Blind a tour of the submersible Alvin. Fisichella’s wife, Amy Bower, is a physical oceanographer at WHOI…
Read MoreCapture and Recovery
Senior scientist Rob Olson (reaching) recovers an instrument attached to an orange float off the shore of Martha’s Vineyard. RV Mytilus operator Matthew Gould handles a line from scientific diver…
Read MoreProbing the Depths
In September 2012, WHOI engineers Ken Decoteau and Jeff Lord deployed a vertical microstructure profiler from RV Knorr. The instrument records water velocity, temperature, and salinity on sub-centimeter scale as…
Read MoreLessons from Fukushima
WHOI’s Redfield Auditorium overflowed with those who came to hear a panel of American and Japanese scientists discussing Japan’s Triple Disaster, the March 2010 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that…
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Originally published online May 26, 2013
Read MoreA Capitol Sub
In March 2012, explorer and filmmaker James Cameron piloted his custom-designed and -built submersible DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to the deepest spot in the ocean—Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. He recently…
Read MoreHalo Below
A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Martha’s…
Read MoreRescue Squad
The scientific research team led by senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy and Raytheon Polar Services Corp. support staff pose on the pack ice in front of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer…
Read MorePressure Test
More than 100 employees took part in various aspects of the two-year project to overhaul and upgrade the submersible Alvin. They included engineer Griffith Outlaw, seen here preparing a component…
Read MoreThe Thinker
In May 2013, Alexi Shalapyonok, Rob Olson, and Matthew Gould (left to right) readied a tool called a FlowCytobot for deployment at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory in Vineyard Sound.…
Read MoreOceans of Protein
WHOI marine chemist Mak Saito has adapted an approach used in biomedical research to study marine organisms: proteomics. He has developed new techniques to detect and measure the proteins that…
Read MoreWorld Ocean Day 2013
Every year on June 8, we celebrate World Oceans Day, a day to reflect on the importance of the global ocean in daily life and in the life of our…
Read MoreClass of 2013
On June 5, WHOI hosted a reception to honor the 2013 class of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Ten of the 32 graduates this year were able to attend: (back row,…
Read MoreA Big Lift
Alvin Expedition Leader Bruce Strickrott has seen a few strange creatures at the bottom of the sea: octopi, tubeworms, Yeti crabs. He’s even had a newly discovered species of hagfish…
Read MoreSummer Resident
Adélie penguins are one of the three brush-tail penguin species that live exclusively on and around Antarctica. Individuals return to the same breeding colony every year to mate and hatch…
Read MoreHeroes at Sea
In November, 2011, while in the Mediterranean Sea on a Dive & Discover research mission, R/V Atlantis rescued 93 men from a foundering fishing boat. The ship’s crew and ROV…
Read MoreScience in Bloom
The Synergy Project paired scientists and artists to create science-inspired works of art. WHOI biologist Elizabeth Halliday (right) collaborated with Janine Wong, a graphic designer and book artist, to create…
Read MoreWhale Calls
Biologist Mark Baumgartner recovers a robotic glider equipped with a WHOI-developed digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument after it found several endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine. Baumgartner wrote the…
Read More1000 Dives Young
In January 1980, the WHOI-operated submersible Alvin made its 1,000th dive to the seafloor during an expedition to the Galapagos Rift. To keep the submersible in prime condition, Alvin recently completed a…
Read MoreTwo for Sea
On Saturday, May 25, R/V Atlantis left Woods Hole for the Panama Canal and Astoria, Oregon, carrying the newly overhauled and upgraded submersible Alvin and accompanied by WHOI’s coastal research…
Read MoreFoam Meets Sphere
During the recent upgrade of the submersible Alvin, Bob McCabe (left) and Rod Catanach (center) carefully lowered a custom-built piece of syntactic foam onto the sub’s personnel sphere while Alvin Expedition…
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