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The Moor the Merrier
Workers load a stretch hose onto the resarch vessel R/V Wecoma for the Inshore Mooring Test 2 (ISMT2) in Newport, Oregon, in March as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative…
Read MoreOf Sand and Microbes
WHOI microbial ecologist Rebecca Gast checks the distances between sample sites on the beach at Duck, N.C., as research associate Levi Gorrell places a coring tube and physical oceanographer Britt…
Read MoreSampling the Sampler
Crystal Breier, Kamila Stastna, Ken Buesseler, and Sachiko Yoshida (left to right) draw water from a rosette sampler in June 2011 on board the R/V Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa. The cruise was organized…
Read MoreA New Lab Takes Shape
In August, construction workers at WHOI began pouring the walls for the lower floors of the new LOSOS (Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems) building on the Quissett Campus.…
Read MoreOcean On the Rocks
Icebergs catch the morning light outside Sermilik Fjord near the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. Massive icebergs like these break off from outlet glaciers that connect directly to the…
Read MoreA Dip in the Pool
Researchers gather samples of mud from a blue pool near the edge of Shark Bay, Australia. Blue pools are small bodies of water that are much more salty than seawater.…
Read MoreIcy Office Cubicle
At Camp Barneo, an ice camp near the North Pole, WHOI senior research specialist Rick Krishfield “talks” to an Ice-Tethered Profiler, to ensure that it’s functioning properly before leaving it…
Read MoreEnd of the Rainbow, End of a Mission
R/V Knorr recently visited the Faroe Islands (in background) at the tail-end of a month-long cruise to investigate the origins of a newly discovered current flowing south through the Denmark…
Read MoreTo Stem Red Tides
WHOI researcher Dave Kulis and Pete Lyons, a guest student from Northeastern University (in boat), place a Lexan box into Salt Pond in Eastham, Mass. The box, crafted by Damon Gayer…
Read MoreBringing in the Catch
Marine biologist Hannes Baumann (far right) from State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook prepares to get a line on a Methot net from the stern of the research…
Read MoreA Fitting Tribute
Jim Valdes holds a float that was deployed on a recent sampling mission to Line W across the Gulf Stream and Deep Western Boundary Current. The float contains the ashes…
Read MoreA Visit from Senator Brown
U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) listens while Vice President for Marine Operations, Rob Munier (right) explains the depth and breadth of WHOI’s involvement in response to the Deep Water Horizon…
Read MoreLearn More About OOI
In May, a panel of nearly 150 leaders of large research infrastructure programs visited WHOI for the Annual Review Meeting of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). On Sept. 17 in…
Read MoreStretch Test
WHOI mooring specialists routinely test mooring components before deploying them in the ocean. In July, mooring engineers Jeff Pietro and Jim Ryder tested one component—an ultra-stretchy rubber hose, sometimes called…
Read MoreResearch Road Trip
By Bryan James, Ken Kostel :: Originally published online September 14, 2011
Read MoreCold Feet
Photographer Rachel Fletcher, currently on board the Knorr with WHOI’s Robert Pickart, recently took this picture of kittiwakes on an iceberg off the coast of Greenland. Pickart is leading the…
Read MoreBig Damage From Little Squirts
Invasive sea squirts establish themselves in tidal areas, crowd out native species in their path, and pose a threat to protected species of eelgrass. WHOI biologist Mary Carman (at right) explains…
Read MoreStar Light, Start Bright
William McLean, mate on the Sea Education Association’s SSV Corwith Cramer, teaches MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) students celestial navigation using a sextant during the annual Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Every year, admitted…
Read MoreIf Only It Would Last
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreA Good Day’s Work
Steve Lambert, John Kemp, Rick Krishfield, and Jeff Pietro (l-r) of WHOI pause after successfully deploying an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) in an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea in August…
Read MoreThrough the Mist
On a foggy August day off the coast of Greenland, photographer Rachel Fletcher took a ride in one of R/V Knorr‘s small boats (also known as an RHIB) to photograph…
Read MoreSoaring Over the Bounding Main
On numerous voyages, WHOI physical oceanographer Phil Richardson had marveled at albatrosses’ ability to soar into high winds and remain aloft seemingly forever without ever flapping their wings. A sailor…
Read MoreOcean Acidification’s Natural Laboratory
Research associate Kathryn A. Rose preserves coral samples at the University of Panama’s NAOS laboratory during a expedition to the Gulf of Panama’s Pearl Islands in June 2011. Rose’s work…
Read MoreLost and Found
In 2001, WHOI scientist Robert Beardsley (far right) and engineers, Sub-Surface Mooring Operations Group head Scott Worrilow (steadying float), Ryan Schrawder (blue hardhat) and Jim Ryder (blue jacket), placed six…
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