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Working Under Ice
To work under Arctic ice and in rough seas, researchers rely on bright, buoyant, and tough equipment. In fall 2011, crew and researchers aboard the United States Coast Guard icebreaker…
Read MoreEyes in the Deep
Norman Vine, Jonathan Howland, Hugh Popenoe (left to right), and Scott Gallager (not pictured) use a test tank in Gallager’s lab at WHOI’s Environmental Systems Laboratory in May to calibrate the…
Read MoreQuick Hands, Light Work
WHOI biologist Amy Maas uses a quick, steady hand to pick out zooplankton called pteropods from a sloshing tray aboard a moving ship, not an easy task as they are only…
Read MoreCorals in a Warming Ocean
Reef-building corals contain algae cells in their tissues that nourish them and give them their distinctive color. High water temperatures cause corals to release their algae and lose their color,…
Read MoreSynchronized Floating
Instructor Joe Mokry (left) of Ocean Rescue Systems International teaches students in a boat safety course at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution strategies for staying alive should they ever have to…
Read MoreHands-on Climate
Participants at a WHOI-sponsored event on ocean acidification in August examined the skeleton of a two-week-old coral grown by MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Liz Drenkard (right) for her climate change research.…
Read MoreThe Ocean’s Acid Test
In early August, WHOI marine biogeochemist Scott Doney spoke at a public event on ocean acidification, a problem arising from the burning of fossil fuels and the subsequent increase in…
Read MoreFurry Walls
In January 2012, an international research group aboard R/V Atlantis completed an expedition to study the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents, at the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean. The group,…
Read MoreUpriver Gang
Every other month since March, students and researchers lead by WHOI marine geochemist Bernhard Peuker-Ehrenbrink have taken water and sediment samples from four rivers in southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.…
Read MoreRATS Ready for Duty
WHOI marine chemists Fred Sayles (left) and Bill Martin have spent the last several years designing and developing a water-measuring device they call RATS, for Robotic Analyzer for the Total…
Read MoreIn the Wake of a Disaster
In March 2011, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by a tsunami, released a record amount of radioactive material into the ocean. Three months later, WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler…
Read MoreReady, Aim, Sip
During an “Oasis” cruise to the Mid-Cayman Rise in January 2012, the manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle Jason placed the intake tube of an isobaric gas-tight sampler (IGTS)…
Read MoreGentle Giant
In June, WHOI postdoctoral student Kelton McMahon and colleagues attached tags to nine giant oceanic manta rays in the Phoenix Islands during a month-long research trip to observe the ecology…
Read MoreTracking Ocean Toxins
From the deck of the Coastal Ocean Institute vessel Calanus, Linda Amaral-Zettler of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Erik Zettler of the Sea Education Association prepare to deploy an automated water sampler in Nauset Marsh.…
Read MoreBringing them Home
WHOI mooring operations specialist Jim Ryder secures a surface buoy to the deck of RV Knorr during a cruise to recover instruments deployed in October 2011 as part of the…
Read MoreMiracles of Flight
Albatrosses captivated scientist Philip Richardson during his physical oceanography career at WHOI, where he watched the large seabirds soar near the decks of traveling research vessels. After he retired in 1999,…
Read MoreRock On!
A person uses a piece of wood to strike a lithophone, an instrument made of solid stone by Native Americans between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago. When struck, the lithophone…
Read MoreIn Search of Lost Treasures
A REMUS 100 from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution makes its way across Lake Rotomahana, New Zealand, in January 2011. Geologists in New Zealand enlisted the help of WHOI scientist Dan…
Read MoreTalking Through Water
Scientists strive to quickly recover data after it is collected from ocean depths, a process that is often cumbersome and costly. WHOI engineer Norman Farr and his colleagues have helped…
Read MoreHome Away from Home
No matter what the nationality, the interior of virtually any research vessel becomes recognizable as a floating scientific lab almost as soon as it leaves port. Still, some differences remain.…
Read MoreSometimes Low-Tech is Best
Not every scientific experiment requires expensive equipment. As Hurricane Irene advanced up the East Coast in August 2011, WHOI postdoctoral scientists Pete van Hengstum and Andrea Hawkes and their colelagues…
Read MoreReeling in a Big One
In 2010, scientists aboard the research ship Melville investigated seafloor volcanism near the Galápagos Islands by lowering a chain-metal basket called a dredge via a steel cable to the seafloor to…
Read MoreAlvin’s First Family
After the original submersible Alvin was built in the 1960s, it was named for Allyn Vine, a leader in developing manned submersible vessels for exploring the deep sea. This summer…
Read MorePresentation: Ocean’s Acid Test
Originally published online August 12, 2012
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