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Great Ocean Conveyor
A schematic of the ocean circulation system, often called the Great Ocean Conveyor, that transports heat throughout the world oceans. Red arrows indicate warm surface currents. Blue arrows indicate deep…
Read MoreNow You See Them…
WHOI post-doctoral scholar Ben Harden waits to capture a dramatic moment at sea: A mooring anchor, released off the stern of the British research ship James Clark Ross, sinks to…
Read MoreEnduring Nemo
When the Blizzard Nemo blew through New England on February 9, 2013, much of Cape Cod, including the town of Falmouth and parts of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lost power…
Read MoreFancy Seeing You Here
On any given day, WHOI’s research vessels are more likely to be in different oceans than in the same port. But this was one of those rare days. On June…
Read MoreSeismic Whale Detector
This “sunburst” pattern shows the calls of one or more fin whales, recorded over a 5-hour period by an underwater microphone that had been deployed to detect landslides, volcanoes, and…
Read MoreBarnacles in Bulk
The same organisms that have plagued mariners for thousands of years have also been a problem for oceanographers deploying moored instruments. Here, barnacles, algae, and other organisms cover the bottom…
Read MorePerfect Fit
In December, two sections of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, were joined together in the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Wash. The ship is being constructed in 13…
Read MoreOcean in Miniature
WHOI engineer Bob Tavares headed up to the roof of the Clark South building recently to check on an Argo SOLO-I float deployed in the 10-meter test well. The Argo…
Read MoreNo Hands
Trevor Harrison takes a spin in a kayak outfitted as an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). A team consisting of Trevor, Peter Kimball, Peter Traykovski, John Bailey, Clay Kunz, and Hanu…
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong Construction
Twin Sister Ships
The R/V Neil Armstrong (left) and its yet-unnamed sister ship (currently designated AGOR-28) sit side-by-side under construction in Anacortes, Wash. In selecting WHOI to operate one of the two new…
Read MoreRapid Rescue
In the aftermath of Blizzard Nemo, WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga (shown here in 2005) found itself speeding out to sea on a rescue mission. The storm cast adrift one…
Read MoreOne Giant Leap
When studying sea ice on the Antarctic coastline, scientists have to be prepared for just about anything, including gaps in the landscape. Guy Williams, an Australian researcher on the recent Sea…
Read MoreFellow Ice Explorer
A snow petrel, photographed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment (SIPEX-II) in fall 2012, floats over the ocean off Antarctica. These seabirds depend on sea ice, which serves as a grazing ground for…
Read MoreHistorical photos of the RMS Titanic
Something Fishy
A REMUS 100 “ICEBOT” autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is prepared for a July 2012 mission to map the hazard-filled edge of a glacier in Southwest Greenland. Once the team, led by…
Read MoreReady, Aim, Tag
Nicholas Macfarlane uses a carbon-fiber pole to put a DTAG (digital acoustic recording tag) on a long-finned pilot whale in the Straight of Gibraltar off Morocco. DTAGs, which were invented…
Read MoreWatch Your Step
WHOI researcher Paul Henderson and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Meagan Gonneea pump water from holes that extend a meter or more into a rock outcrop beneath the subtidal zone along…
Read MoreKings of the Cold
At nearly four feet tall, the Emperor penguin is Antarctica’s largest sea bird—and thanks to films like “March of the Penguins” and “Happy Feet,” it’s also one of the continent’s…
Read MoreJump!
A successful day of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operations in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica was reason to celebrate during the fall 2012 Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment. From left…
Read MoreX Marks the Spot
WHOI scientist Matt Charette and Carolina Ruiz Fernandez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico use a GPS device to determine the precise location of a cenote, or natural sinkhole,…
Read MoreLet the Sun Shine In
WHOI biologist Sam Laney studies the daily lives of single-celled plants in the ocean known as phytoplankton. The organisms carry out photosynthesis within specialized organelles called chloroplasts, which contain the…
Read MoreStre-e-e-etch
Oceanographic moorings sometimes include a surface buoy connected by chain or cable to instruments below. In rough weather, rapidly changing tension on the chain causes noise that can interfere with…
Read MoreSandy of the Past
Zach Stromer, an undergraduate intern from Northeastern University working in Jeff Donnelly’s Coastal Systems Group, worked on a sediment core recently that Donnelly and his team collected immediately after Hurricane…
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