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Taking the Temperature
During a recent trip to islands of Micronesia, WHOI marine chemist Konrad Hughen and his team surveyed shallow water reefs to study the response of corals to global warming and…
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George Tupper, a WHOI engineer and private pilot, had often thought about photographing the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr from the air to capture the ship turning on its axis. Tupper’s opportunity…
Read MoreMeasuring Salt from Sea and Space
University of Connecticut scientist Jim Edson (left) and WHOI technician Steve Faluotico install an instrument on a buoy prior to a cruise to the saltiest spot in the North Atlantic…
Read MoreA Sea Change
WHOI engineer Will Ostrom deploys a mooring in Sermilik Fjord in southeastern Greenland in September, 2012. Instruments on the mooring will record water temperature, salinity, and current speed and direction…
Read MoreA Tangled Problem
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Julie van der Hoop and marine biologist Michael Moore confer during a recent expedition on R/V Tioga. The pair was using a tensiometer to measure drag forces created by…
Read MoreBlooming Under Ice
This delicate fan-shaped colony of a golden-colored algae called Dinobryon was found in a surprising place—beneath sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. Scientists had assumed ice blocked sunlight that microscopic…
Read MoreCulture and Climate Change
Climate change—particularly changes in the monsoon—prompted dramatic changes in how the peoples of ancient India lived. WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Camilo Ponton, and colleagues gathered evidence…
Read MoreReady for Sandy
When one of the big ships is in port during heavy weather, they get all the best points on the dock to tie off. Standard practice calls for two bow…
Read MoreOcean Work Hats
When scientists leave instruments in the ocean to do long-term measurements, they need a way to keep their gear afloat. One way to keep them from sinking is to use…
Read MoreGetting in Touch with Science
A student from Perkins School for the Blind examines a piece of whale baleen with the help of Karen Damelio, an assistant at WHOI’s Ocean Exhibit Center. Several Perkins students…
Read MoreGliding Underwater
An autonomous underwater glider, is recovered to the R/V Knorr. The glider, preprogrammed with navigation waypoints before deployment, maneuvers through the ocean without an external propulsion system, traversing the upper…
Read MoreNew House on the Block
In August, scientists and engineers began moving into the new 26,000-square-foot Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems building on WHOI’s Quisset campus. The facility contains lab and office spaces for…
Read MoreData Retrieval
A Subsurface Mooring Operations crew on a cruise to Line W recovers a buoy that collected data for the Access to the Sea program. Named in memory of Val Worthington,…
Read MoreArctic Outpost
This year marked the tenth year of the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project led by WHOI physical oceanographer Andrey Proshutinsky and Richard Krishfield. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Fisheries and…
Read MoreMemories
WHOI geologist Chris German presents framed photos to R/V Atlantis captain Mitzi Crane, relief chief engineer Jeff Little (left), and relief Boatswain Ed Popowitz (center). The photos were taken during…
Read MoreShifting Sands
Field research often requires improvisation. WHOI scientists Peter Traykovski and Rocky Geyer had planned to use a robotic underwater vehicle in a project to study how tides and currents move sand…
Read MoreFresh Water, for a Change
Oceanographers also occasionally turn their attention to smaller bodies of water. Here, WHOI’s Will Ostrom (right) works on a mooring line on Flathead Lake, Montana. The mooring is one of…
Read MoreA New Way to Make Crust
Scientists have long thought that new ocean crust was only formed at spreading centers, where tectonic plates separate and allow magma to emerge from below. WHOI geophysicist Dan Lizarralde recently…
Read MoreAll in Two Year’s Work
Data from a Nortek DW Aquadopp current monitor is downloaded and analyzed after the instrument spent two years in the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland, where important subsurface currents cross…
Read MoreWater Flowing Underground
Water flowing through aquifers back to the ocean is part of Earth’s water cycle that people often overlook, said WHOI scientist Matt Charette of the Coastal Groundwater Geochemistry Lab, because…
Read MoreShrinking Home
A polar bear tried (and failed) to scramble onto a too-small ice floe in the Denmark Strait in August 2012 during a cruise led by WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart.…
Read MoreTight Fit
Research vessel Knorr passes through a manmade channel out of St. George’s in Bermuda during a March 2007 expedition to the Northwest Atlantic deep boundary current, lead by WHOI physical…
Read MoreGoing SOLO
Bob Tavares, manager of the WHOI Float Lab, prepares SOLO II floats for an ARGO research mission to explore the structure of currents in the South Atlantic. Each float will…
Read MoreReady to Break Ice
Two red-hulled icebreakers, the Laurence M. Gould (foreground) and the larger Nathaniel B. Palmer, both frequently used by WHOI researchers, docked in Chile between expeditions in spring 2011. WHOI researcher…
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