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Skin Tight
WHOI engineers Rod Catanach and Andy Billings fit the outer skin over one of the navigation transponders on the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, or ABE. The vehicle was the first autonomous…
Read MoreSafety First
Diego Mello, first mate of the research vessel Oceanus, helps WHOI postdoctoral scholar Tim Shanahan (right) get into his ‘Gumby’ survival suit during a safety drill. Whether it is your…
Read MoreContinent of Peace
A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters. Behind Byrd fly the 12 flags of the original Antarctic Treaty…
Read MoreOpen Season
The Woods Hole Ocean Science Exhibit Center, which has just opened for the 2008 season, is a great place to explore the diversity of WHOI’s research, learn a little local…
Read MoreBuried Treasure
“I never thought we would find such clean ice under that lava,” said WHOI geochemist Mark Kurz during a December 2007 expedition in Antarctica. Kurz, graduate student Andrea Burke, and…
Read MoreNew at the Helm
New WHOI President and Director Susan Avery meets with the crew of research vessel Knorr in the ship’s galley during a home port call in Woods Hole in April 2008.…
Read MoreYellow, Submarine…Float
Technicians and ship’s crew members deploy the top float of a subsurface mooring in the North Atlantic in Aprill 2006. Since 2002, WHOI researchers led by John Toole have maintained…
Read MoreSummer Fellows
No Vacancy
Scientific gear and underwater vehicles crowd the fantail of the research vessel Knorr during a 2001 expedition to explore the mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean. The first-generation remotely operated…
Read MoreDiplomatic Science
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (foreground) prepares to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist Susumu Honjo (standing) during a visit in 1975. An amateur marine biologist…
Read MoreFired Up
MIT/WHOI graduate student Desirée Plata prepares a flame torch to seal samples for carbon isotope measurements in her lab experiments. Her research has shown that differently manufactured carbon nanotubes have…
Read MoreGreen House, White Out
The greenhouse at McMurdo Station is a respite from Antarctica’s angular whiteness. Full of humidity, musty scents, and color, it was started in 1989 with two abandoned Navy huts and…
Read MoreTerror in White
Winds in Cape Crozier, Antarctica, tend to stream down the slopes from Mount Terror. The volcano got its name from Captain James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea and…
Read MoreBuoying Whales
WHOI engineering assistants Kris Newhall, Will Ostrom, and Mike McCarthy prepare to deploy buoys during the North Atlantic Right Whale Monitoring Project in Cape Cod Bay in 2004. (Photo by…
Read MoreFeeding Time
Alex Pogue, a guest student working with paleoclimatologist Anne Cohen and geochemist Dan McCorkle, feeds baby quahogs in an experiment that tests the impact of ocean acidification on early shell…
Read MoreGoing Up
The crew of the research vessel Knorr recovers a “elevator” during a 2001 cruise in the Dive and Discover series. Seafloor explorers use the system in tandem with the remotely…
Read MoreThe Hunt for Red Hot Hydrothermal Vents
At the Mercy of the Ice
Intriguing Discoveries
Guiding a Seafloor Lander
Boatswain Clindor Cacho guides the handling of a multi-corer on working deck of the research vessel Oceanus in the summer of 2007. The ship was working along the West African…
Read MoreUnderwater Microscope
WHOI biologists Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik examine plankton-filled water samples on a prototype version of the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) in Olson’s Woods Hole laboratory. The Cytobot, which is automated…
Read MoreJump, Jive, and Wail
A plucky Adelie penguin hurdles a meltwater stream that has been stained brown by the acres of guano it has trickled through. “The Adelie is this really tough little character,”…
Read MoreGoing Mobile
A tiddlywinks game? A Jackson Pollock painting? No, it’s a mobile hanging in a skylight of the McLean Laboratory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Read MoreBearly Escaped
An Inupiat (native Alaskan) guide armed with a rifle stands watch while WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord works inside the tent to gather data during a recent sea ice…
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