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History, Written in Mud
A sediment sample in a push core taken from the upper reaches of a deep, hypersaline, anoxic basin (DHAB) hints at a complex history for the 3,000 to 35,000 year-old…
Read MoreA Welcome Sight
Ben Tradd, a pilot with the Jason operations group, takes in the sunset aboard the R/V Atlantis following days of heavy rain, high winds and rough seas in October 2011.…
Read MoreReady to Fly
The video plankton recorder, shown on deck at right, resembles a small airplane. In fact, it does fly—in the water. In August 2011, the German research vessel Maria S. Merian…
Read MoreUntethering Communications
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason rests on the deck of the R/V Atlantis in August 2011 following a day of successful test dives with a new communications and control…
Read MoreLife on Seamounts
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Read MoreLife on Seamounts
Clouds at the Bottom of the Sea
A photo taken by a camera on the remotely operated vehicle Jason reveals the weird, murky world of Urania Basin, an anoxic, super-salty “lake” 3.5 kilometers deep in the eastern…
Read MoreNautical Reunion
In the 1950s and 60s it was rare to see four WHOI-operated ships docked at the same time in Woods Hole, their home port. The vessels, normally ranging around the…
Read MoreWelcome Aboard, SID-ISMS
WHOI researchers Craig Taylor and Ginny Edgcomb wheel SID-ISMS, a new water column sampler, to the main lab of R/V Atlantis in preparation for their 2011 research cruise in the…
Read MoreGrabbing for Samples
German researchers Falk Pollehne (left) and Michael Zettler of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research prepare a Van Veen bottom grab sampler during an August 2011 research cruise off the…
Read MoreCoral Reef Fish
Coral Research
One Cool Colony
Some friends of the Institution recently joined Newt Merrill, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Susan K. Avery, WHOI’s President and Director; and Susan Humphris, Senior Scientist in the Geology & Geophysics…
Read MoreQuick Pit Stop
Moments after the SID-ISMS (Submerged Incubation Device-In Situ Microbial Sampler) returned from beneath the Mediterranean Sea, an international team of scientists hurried to remove the samples it brought back and…
Read MoreTesting the Waters
In October, scientists and crew led by WHOI oceanographer Robert Pickart traveled to the Beaufort Sea aboard the US Coast Guard ice breaker Healy. They were carrying out part of a five-year study…
Read MoreFunny Name, Serious Mission
Engineering Assistant Jim Dunn (foreground) lowers a benthic acoustic release frame (BARF) into the test tank at WHOI’s Coastal Research Lab while colleagues Eric Drange (left) and Jeff Pietro observe.…
Read MoreAlvin Workspace Simulation
Originally published online January 1, 2012
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Originally published online January 1, 2012
Read MoreA Pair of Firsts
Atlantis, the first ship used at WHOI for multidisciplinary ocean research, docked in Woods Hole in the 1950s near the Bigelow Laboratory. (The building was the first built for the…
Read MoreTight Sampling Deadline
During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the U.S. Coast Guard arranged for a small group of WHOI researchers to be transferred from a research vessel in the Gulf…
Read MoreStrike Up the Band
Occasionally when a WHOI ship returns to Woods Hole, the Institution’s Brass Ensemble helps give the crew and science party a rousing welcome home. From left to right: Alex Dorsk…
Read MoreMany-headed Computer
Jeff Dusenberry stands in front of Scylla, a high performance computer cluster containing a total of 984 processors that was installed at WHOI in June 2011. Named after the many-headed…
Read MoreCrawford
Crawford, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter, came to WHOI in 1956. Crawford made 175 cruises, worked in the North and South Atlantic, and carried specialized gear for studying hurricanes.…
Read MoreCoring Coral
Using SCUBA gear so she can remain submerged, Joint Program student Hannah Barkley drills into a coral colony in Palau to extract a core sample of the skeleton. Analyzing the…
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