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A Piece of the Past
In January, WHOI Scientist Emeritus Sandy Williams presented the Institution’s President and Director Susan Avery with a small, wooden crucifix, given to him by an Argentinean naval architect. The architect…
Read MoreThree In One
Three captains of the original Atlantis meet on deck: (left to right) Scott Bray, John Pike, and Adrian Lane. Lane was master of Atlantis from 1956 to 1962, then WHOI…
Read MoreOceanographic Exercise
WHOI researchers struggle to prepare a Bodman bottle for deployment during a cruise on the R/V Crawford in the late 1950s. Marine chemist Vaughan Bowen helped develop the sampling bottle,…
Read MoreHigh Water Mark
WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to the highest watermarks on the wall of a house destroyed by a devastating tsunami following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast…
Read MoreHeading Home
Flags flying, R/V Knorr steams down Vineyard Sound towards the WHOI dock and home, after crossing the Atlantic from the Azores in July 2010. A yellow “quarantine” flag, flown when…
Read MoreInteractive Tsunami Guide
Up Before the Sun
With sunrise for company, pilot Sean Kelley readies the sample basket on the front of the submersible Alvin during the daily pre-dawn pre-dive check. R/V Atlantis and Alvin were in…
Read MoreA New View of Marine Life
Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, grew up in the farmlands of Nebraska, far from any ocean. As a result, he had little exposure to the…
Read MoreSunset Dive
Alvin recovery swimmer Jim McGill from the crew of the R/V Atlantis dives from the vehicle at sunset during a 28-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. Led by Chief…
Read MoreCracking the Code
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch carries tubes containing cultures of Aureococcus anophagefferens, which has been responsible for brown tides along heavily populated coastlines of the eastern U.S. and South…
Read MoreReconstructing a Tsunami
This simulation, produced by ocean modelers Changsheng Chen and Robert Beardsley using the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM), shows how the tsunami created by sudden uplift of the seafloor…
Read MoreA Flexible Floatilla
Research vessels like the R/V Knorr need to be flexible. Depending on the objectives of each expedition, the ship might be outfitted with any number of moving parts that must…
Read MoreWhat Did One Pilot Whale Say to the Other?
During the summer of 2010, WHOI biologists and engineers, working jointly with the Spanish nonprofit Alnitak in the Alboran Sea between Spain and Morocco, attached non-intrusive digital recording tags (DTAGs)…
Read MoreForging the Sphere
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Read MoreElemental Alvin
The overhaul and upgrade of the deep submergence vehicle Alvin reached a milestone last week with completion of the disassembly phase of the nearly 18 month-long process. The largest remaining…
Read MoreSea Ice Isn’t Terra Firma
In March 2010, WHOI researchers journeyed to the sea ice off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, to test whether an untethered underwater vehicle called REMUS could be sent into an…
Read MoreMoonlight on the Long Core
Looking down the barrel of the WHOI Long Core reveals a full moon trailing behind R/V Knorr in January 2010. The ship was in transit from Tampa to Bridgetown, Barbados,…
Read MoreDiwali Night at WHOI
A group of women wearing traditional Indian saris and the colorful forehead decoration known as bindi take a moment during WHOI’s Diwali Night celebration to pose for a photo. Diwali…
Read MoreWitness to Destruction in New Zealand
WHOI geologist and earthquake expert Jian Lin arrived on New Zealand’s South Island two days after the deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck that region on Feb. 22. Lin traveled to…
Read MoreAn A for Alvin
The deep submersible Alvin is recovered to the massive steel A-frame on the stern of its support ship R/V Atlantis. This was the first dive of a December cruise to…
Read MoreLet There Be Laser Light
The ocean is teeming with life—most of which you can’t see. Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, has helped invent a new instrument to view microscopic…
Read MoreAfter the Spill, the Dispersant
Marine chemist Elizabeth Kujawinski (standing), researcher Melissa Kido Soule (seated), and colleagues recently found that a main component of a chemical dispersant used during the Deepwater Horizon spill to break…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Nat!
In 1948, Nat Corwin (above) made his first cruise on a WHOI vessel, sailing aboard the original Atlantis to the Mediterranean. He later sailed as chief scientist aboard Atlantis II…
Read More90 Hours Below
In September 2010 off the coast of Oregon, the Jason team, with help from the captain and crew of the NOAA research vessel R/V Thomas G. Thompson, recovered the ROV…
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