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Into the Cold
WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart is currently leading an international team on board the NATO research vessel Alliance to get a close-up look at a poorly understood, but critical, […]
Read MoreThe Splice Is Right
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue splices a line on the research vessel Neil Armstrong during a voyage from Woods Hole to a Global Array site in the […]
Read MoreClose Encounter
The research vessel Neil Armstrong makes a close approach to assess a surface mooring deployed in the Irminger Sea southeast of Greenland as a part of the NSF-funded Ocean […]
Read MoreLights, Ice, Action
Ice lights illuminate the sea surface ahead of the R/V Neil Armstrong last summer off the coast of Greenland. The cruise, led by WHOI physical oceanographer, Bob Pickart […]
Read MoreIrminger Sea Recovery
In 2016 in the Irminger Sea near Greenland, WHOI Deck Operations Leader John Kemp (left of floats at the deck edge), other members of the WHOI Mooring Group, […]
Read MoreNo Harm, No Foul
As long as scientists have been putting instruments in the ocean, biofouling has been a challenge confronting instrument designers. Here, WHOI technician Dan Torres recovers an Read More
On the Rocks
Ice floes in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon come from Breiðamerkurjökull (visible in the background), one of the glaciers draining the third largest ice cap in the world. Iceland was the destination […]
Read MoreClass In Session
WHOI engineer Marshall Swartz (right) instructs Louis Clement, a post-doctoral scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on the technical intricacies of a CTD rosette equipped with a lowered acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). […]
Read MoreMidnight Sunset
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Astrid Pacini captured a serene midnight sunset on a research cruise off Iceland in August. Pacini went as an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) […]
Read MoreDo More on DoMORE
Jian Zhao from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) takes water samples from a CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) rosette on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer during a 2015 […]
Read MoreIn the Path of Piteraqs
What Goes Down
Closing the Loop
The world ocean circulates like a conveyor belt, with cold, salty, dense water in the North Atlantic sinking beneath the surface. But one question remains a mystery: How do […]
Read MorePropelled by the Sinking of Cold, Salty waters
The Great Ocean Conveyor is propelled by the sinking of cold, salty (and therefore denser) waters in the North Atlantic Ocean (blue arrows). That creates a void that pulls warm, […]
Read MoreAll Mixed Up
A Sharp Turn
Dialysis for Diatoms
WHOI scientist Krista Longnecker built this small-scale electrodialysis system to remove salt from seawater collected during the DeepDOM reseach cruise in the spring of 2013. […]
Read MoreAlbatross Farewell
Reaching Out, From Sea
Author Dallas Murphy (left) and WHOI post-doc Benjamin Harden confer on the bridge of R/V Lance recently about the day’s outreach activities during a cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Murphy […]
Read MoreFluid Dynamics
Many people consider the porch at Walsh Cottage at WHOI to be a sacred place. Each summer since 1959, some of the greatest oceanographers, physicists, and mathematicians have gathered […]
Read MoreNow You See Them…
Data Retrieval
A Subsurface Mooring Operations crew on a cruise to Line W recovers a buoy that collected data for the Access to the Sea program. Named in memory […]
Read MoreAll in Two Year’s Work
Data from a Nortek DW Aquadopp current monitor is downloaded and analyzed after the instrument spent two years in the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland, where important subsurface currents cross […]
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