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Service with a Smile
WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Sentry, is launched from the research vessel Thomas Thompson in August 2008 during the AUV’s first scientific expedition. The vehicle surveyed and helped pinpoint several…
Read MoreSequences
WHOI biologists Sibel Karchner (foreground) and Mark Hahn examine bacterial colonies used to clone fish genes that play a role in determining susceptibility to toxic chemicals. Research Assistant Diana Franks,…
Read MoreCTD-side chat
MIT/WHOI graduate student Melinda Hall—now a research specialist in the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography—shares a laugh with the late Henry Stommel while collecting samples from a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette.…
Read MorePenciling-in the future
Postdoctoral researcher Justin Ries, working with Anne Cohen and Dan McCorkle in the WHOI Geology and Geophysics Department, grew this tropical pencil urchin (Eucidaris tribuloides) and other marine shell-building animals…
Read MoreVacuuming on the Sea Floor
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Chip Breier is working to put a new deep-sea particle sampling device on the remotely operated vehicle Jason to collect samples in hard-to-access places. For example, the…
Read MoreDragging for Data
WHOI coastal geologist Ilya Buynevich, right, and Lithuanian colleague Albertas Bitinas use ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to map ancient surfaces beneath Baltic Sea dunes. They are looking for “paleosols”—old soils buried…
Read MoreTime for a well earned rest
The famed submersible Alvin is hoisted off of the research vessel Atlantis and on to the WHOI pier in December 2000 for its periodic top-to-bottom, inside-and-out maintenance. Since 1964, the…
Read MoreNight Lights
In the fall of 2003, the Arctic Edge science team returned to the Western Arctic Ocean to retrieve and redeploy an array of moorings placed in 2002 to observe one…
Read MoreA Rare Chance to Examine a Rare Turtle
A panoply of uncommon stories and specimens passes through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility. In May 2007, a team of biologists and veterinarians used the facility…
Read MoreLittle Canaries
Small crustaceans called mysids, shown here swarming in the ocean, might serve as “canaries in the coal mine” indictating when marine environments are being exposed to chemicals that could affect…
Read MoreFlying Fish
The research vessel Crawford is tied up at the WHOI pier with the wing of a P5 Marlin (P5M) seaplane strapped to its side in 1960. “An attempt was made…
Read MoreFilter Feeding
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Mar Nieto-Cid adds seawater to a filtration system in the main laboratory of the research vessel Oceanus during a cruise in the North Atlantic in April 2008. …
Read MoreRemove the Water, Carry the Water
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Dan Rogers collects groundwater from a coastal aquifer at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Dan’s research examines the role of microbes in consuming and transforming…
Read MoreHandy tool (or, Don’t try this at home)
An ice axe is an indispensable tool for navigating on ice. Explorers use them to probe the snow ahead to see how deep it is, to stop themselves when sliding…
Read MoreDrop Me a (Phone) Line
A helicopter from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star deploys one of five ocean-bottom hydrophones to record sound waves generated by any earthquakes or eruptions near Vailulu’u. After a…
Read MorePulling Together
WHOI staff link up and swim together as part of their small boat safety training course in spring 2008. Scientific and technical staff who wish to pilot the Institution’s small…
Read MoreLearning by Doing
Ellen Murphy, a high school student from Minnesota, and Chris Reddy, WHOI marine chemist, examine samples of plastic in Reddy’s laboratory in May 2008. Murphy, Reddy, and other lab technicians…
Read MoreWho Needs a Submersible?
WHOI diving safety officer Terry Rioux dons a “Mark V” diving helmet at the Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two, in Little Creek, Va, in June 1978. Before and during…
Read MoreTest Photo
Graduate students Chris Murphy (in the water), Rogelio Morales-Garcia (holding the instrument), and Clayton Kunz work to calibrate a camera system in the new test tank in WHOI’s Coastal Research…
Read MoreMoulin Rouge
In July 2008, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington spread a harmless red dye into the meltwater on top of the Greenland ice sheet. The team was able…
Read MoreSundown, You’d Better Take Care
The Sun sets over the North Atlantic and the bow of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008 during an expedition off the edge of the continental shelf southeast of…
Read MoreBlue Water, Red Sea
Working off the coast of Saudi Arabia, a WHOI-led research team has been surveying and cataloging the largely unstudied coral reefs of the Red Sea. WHOI recently joined a partnership…
Read MoreNo, no, you go first…
New MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Heather Beem (top) and Jessica Fitzsimmons (bottom) climb the rigging of the educational sailing ship Corwith Cramer, with direction from ships’ mate (and sometime captain)…
Read MoreSign of the Zodiac
In March 2008, University of Rhode Island graduate student Pat Kelley (top, middle) and crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy use a Zodiac to recover a floating…
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