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Long Core
By Tom Lanagan :: Originally published online August 1, 2010
Read MoreAntarctic Adventure
A research team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) hikes along a lava ridge in Antarctica during an expedition to study how the volcanic landscape formed and has changed. From…
Read MoreHouse Call
Members of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group conduct at-sea repairs on an ASIMET buoy in the Gulf Stream that was probably damaged by a ship. Sensors on the buoy…
Read MoreWicked Wuzzle
In the late 1960s, after synthetic mooring lines proved unable to hold up to the wear and tear of waves and currents, the WHOI Buoy Group switched to using wire…
Read MoreIt Was Clean When We Put It In
Engineering assistant Daniel Bogorff works to clean a fouled (and furry-looking) Ultramoor Data Capsule Magazine that had just been recovered from its mooring station on Line W between Woods Hole…
Read MoreWhat’s Living in the Ocean?
A Fistful of Tubeworms
Erik Cordes retrieves specimens of tubeworms from the submersible Alvin‘s sample basket during the current expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, which ends today. Cordes, an ecologist from Temple University,…
Read MoreWinching Ahead
To expand research into icy waters, in 2003 WHOI engineers designed the Arctic Winch, which can reach up to get critical measurements near the icy surface, but stay out of…
Read MoreThe Stars Are Out in the Deep Sea
Pale brittlestars coil their tentacles around a pink Paragorgia coral photographed during a dive in the submersible Alvin this week to the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico—1,500 meters below the…
Read More50 Years of the WHOI Buoy Group
Underwater Geyser
A black smoker chimney releases hot hydrothermal vent fluid filled with mineral particles that make it look like smoke. Diving in Alvin in 1993, scientists Holger Jannasch and Cindy Van…
Read MoreIt’s Off to Work We Go
Daily commutes often begin with getting your vehicle out of the garage. And so it is even for the human-occupied submersible Alvin. The 35,000-pound sub slides on a railway out…
Read MoreA Bite Out of a Buoy
In the early 1960s, the WHOI Buoy Group struggled to keep its moorings intact and its instruments functioning in the harsh ocean environment. Some equipment, such as this toroid, or…
Read MoreArctic Catch
A net towed through the Bering Sea yielded a catch of copepods, tiny shrimp-like animals that are critical links in the productive Arctic Ocean food chain. In spring 2009, WHOI…
Read MoreLoss and Opportunity
In 2007, WHOI biologist Darlene Ketten (in blue), turtle physiology expert Jeanette Wyneken of Florida Atlantic University (in white) and a team of biologists and veterinarians conducted a necropsy of…
Read MoreThe Moor the Merrier
WHOI Assistant Engineer Jeff Pietro sends a group of flotation spheres to the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer in preparation for a mooring deployment in the Sargasso Sea. Six…
Read MoreSay “Ah”
At Crab Spa, a diffuse-flow hydrothermal vent site on the East Pacific Rise, Alvin’s manipulator arm holds a sensor developed by Nadine Le Bris that measures temperature, pH, and sulfide…
Read MoreA Wing and a Sonar
In 1960, WHOI researchers on the research vessel Crawford devised a novel way of measuring seafloor slope. They took sonar depth measurements from two fixed points about 50 feet apart:…
Read MoreNew Students, New Tasks
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students (left to right) Scott Haven, Adam Trainer, Nicholas Macfarlane, Daniel Amrhein and Melissa Moulton retrieve a water sampler during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise aboard…
Read MoreR&R for Jason
Whenever possible, the Jason Group at WHOI schedules maintenance of the hard-working remotely operated vehicle. Here, WHOI contractor Scott Hansen works on the vehicle’s thruster motors. ROV Jason recently completed…
Read MoreAlvin Gets a Bath
Alvin pilots kick off their traditional “skins party,” during a Dive and Discover expedition to the Galápagos Rift in May 2005. After the last dive of every expedition the pilots…
Read MoreA Midwestern Hemisphere
One of two new hemispheres for the research sub Alvin cools at Wisconsin-based forge, Ladish, in June 2008. Once forged, the hemispheres, which began as 35,000 pounds of titanium ingots,…
Read MoreSend in Sentry
In September 2009, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry explored the ocean bottom off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., for underwater methane seeps. Go to WHOI’s Dive and Discover…
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