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Tapping the ocean
WHOI summer student fellow Zack Bailey (Indiana State University) and cruise volunteer Pradeep Ranasinghage (Kent State University) collect seawater from the Niskin bottles on a CTD rosette, in June 2008.…
Read MoreGibraltar on his mind
R/V Oceanus captain Diego Mello looks out for traffic as he guides the ship into the port of Gibraltar. The research vessel stopped at Gibraltar to refuel on its way…
Read MoreCharting a polar ocean ecosystem
In March 2008 the icebreaker USCGC Healy carried researchers led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian to sample in nearly 200 locations in the Bering Sea. The cruise was supported by…
Read MoreSetting a Trap
A sediment trap is prepared for deployment from the research vessel Oceanus during a cruise in the Gulf of Maine. The instrument collects sinking particles on a pre-programmed schedule and…
Read MoreInto the blue
During a 2006 pilot project to study the effect of ocean currents on fish larvae spawned on coral reefs in Belize, the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS (an acronym for Remote…
Read MorePolar Slurpee
A plexi-glass reservoir holds orange microbial material slurped up by the vacuum sampler on the towed vehicle Camper, as well as tiny black shards of volcanic glass that covered large…
Read MoreAround the clock
Like clockwork four people work together to remove samples from a sediment trap, on a cruise off Bermuda in December 2008, making a near-symmetrical picture. The samples will be brought…
Read MoreFull steam ahead
The R/V Atlantis steams through the Gulf of Nicoya off the coast of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, in February 2009. The research vessel and the Alvin submersible were in the area…
Read MoreNorthern light show
Aurora borealis lights dance in the sky above the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy during an Arctic Shelf cruise in 2004. Join a team of researchers, led by Carin Ashjian…
Read MoreHiding in plain sight
Single-celled organisms like this tintinnid are critical links in the ocean’s food web. Though ever-present in the world’s oceans, their microscopic sizes make them hard to sample and therefore hard…
Read MoreSampling plankton with the MOCNESS
Watch the launch and recovery of the MOCNESS net, catching plankton animals in the Atlantic Ocean. By Kate Madin :: Originally published online July 14, 2006
Read MoreRough seas sampling
Rene Ayala of the Bermuda Institute of Oceanographic Science takes a splash while tending to a rosette sampler aboard the R/V Oceanus during a December 2008 cruise. The research was…
Read MoreWhale of a Buoy
Working in the recently renovated Coastal Research Laboratory at WHOI, engineering assistants Paul Fraser (top), Jim Dunn (center), and Kris Newhall put finishing touches on one of 10 surface buoys…
Read MoreA fleet of floats
Robotic floats — drifting instruments that measure ocean temperature and salinity — provide continuous monitoring of upper ocean conditions. Each float sinks to depths of 2,000 meters, drifts with ocean…
Read MorePicturesque port
R/V Oceanus chief mate Ethan Galac (left), bosun Clindor Cacho (center) and steward Jeff Avery (right) admire the view as the research vessel approaches St. George, Bermuda, in December 2008.…
Read MoreDirty work
Haitham Aljahdali, of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST (left) and Alaa Albarakati (center) of King Abdulazziz University, both in Saudi Arabia, get their hands, and everything…
Read MoreDiscovery in the Celebes
In October 2007, U. S. and Filipino scientists traveled to the Celebes Sea in Southeast Asia, searching for new species living in its deep water. When they discovered this extraordinary…
Read MoreCreatures of the Celebese Sea
Studying moving fluids
Physical oceanographer John Whitehead (far right) showed Russian oceanographers M. A. Bogdanov and B. B. Popov around his laboratory during a tour of WHOI in 1973, and explained an experiment…
Read MorePolar Discovery: Bering Sea Ecosystem
The Arctic ecosystem has a unique, complex food web that is fashioned by its distinctive plankton, animal species, and environmental factors. Copepods, like the one above, are a critical link…
Read MoreFishing for an AUV
Senior scientist Al Plueddemann hooks the handle of the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) REMUS so that it can be safely lifted onto the deck during a study of the wintertime…
Read MoreEnd of the rainbow?
Bosun Clindor Cacho admires a rainbow as the Oceanus prepares to dock at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in November 2008, after a transit across the Atlantic. The ship, scientists,…
Read MoreAloha, Nereus
After four years of design and construction, one of WHOI’s new deep-sea exploration vehicles, Nereus, took its first plunge in deeper waters during a test cruise in December 2007 off…
Read MoreFlying the Spanish flag
The WHOI-operated research vessel Oceanus flew the Spanish flag during a stop in the Canary Islands in September, following oceanographic research by WHOI marine biogeochemist Phoebe Lam. (Photo by Alexander Dorsk, Woods…
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