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Snow Packing
In April 2007, WHOI arctic research specialist Rick Krishfield (left) and engineering assistant Kris Newhall unloaded crates of scientific gear–ultimately bound for the North Pole–on Ellesmere Island at Canadian Forces…
Read MoreCSI: Pirate
From a few bits of wood, researchers hoped to prove the presence of a notorious criminal. The wood came from the bottom of the Atlantic, off the coast of North…
Read MoreShip Shape
WHOI researchers prepare to make a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) survey of an old shipwreck that washed up on the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Mass. in March…
Read MoreOsprey Reality TV
WHOI multimedia specialist Matt Barton installs a camera above an osprey nest outside of the Rinehart Coastal Research Laboratory on the Institution’s Quissett campus. For the sixth consecutive year, the…
Read MoreMom Always Said to Bundle Up
The Clothing Distribution Center of the U.S. Antarctic Program in New Zealand provides one-stop shopping for polar explorers. If you are going south on their watch, then you are going…
Read MoreTo the Abyss on a Wire
Seated inside the control van for the remotely operated vehicle Jason, pilot Scott Hansen (background) and chief scientist Bill Chadwick (Oregon State University) work to collect samples from the hydrothermal…
Read MoreTerrible Twos
Today marks the second anniversary of the WHOI Image of the Day, our attempt to share the beauty, the characters, the behind-the-scenes action, and the personality of the Woods Hole…
Read MoreSeeing-Eye Diver
Able-bodied seaman–and sometimes Alvin diver–Raul Martinez stands atop the submersible to relay directions and guide Alvin’s pilot into position for recovery by the research vessel Atlantis. (Photo by Lance Wills,…
Read MoreFour Square
A research team from WHOI moves out along a ridge above the Koettlitz Glacier in Antarctica. The sun is due north over the Ross Sea, meaning it’s midday. Joint Program…
Read MoreTesting Eyesight
Engineer Josh Eaton (lower left), biologist Cabell Davis (upper left), and postdoctoral scholar Qiao Hu maneuver the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) for calibration testing in a tank in a Woods…
Read MoreNeither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night
WHOI mail distribution supervisor Patrick Harrington (foreground), with help from Eric Drange, works to sort and deliver the institution’s mail. In 2007, the WHOI mailroom processed more than 63,000 pieces…
Read MoreBelly Button Fungus
Tiny clumps of lichen bring life to the rocks around Igloo Spur in Antarctica. Named Umbilicaria for its belly-button shape, this lichen grows in only a handful of places on…
Read MoreListening for Quakes
Marine seismologists/geophysicists John Collins (left), Beecher Wooding (center), and Bob Detrick examine ocean-bottom seismometers in a WHOI laboratory. The trio along with colleagues from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the…
Read MoreSmoke on the Water
Meteorologists Tom Horst (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Jim Edson (visiting scientist at WHOI, full time at University of Connecticut) hold tight to an array of acoustic anemometers as…
Read MoreLeader of the Pack
Bruce Strickrott, Alvin pilot and expedition leader for a winter 2007 cruise on the research vessel Atlantis, prepares for the launch of the submersible into the Pacific Ocean near the…
Read MoreA Growing Concern
High school student Ryan Pettit (Falmouth Academy) loads a coral sample into a scanning electron microscope at the Marine Biological Laboratory, with supervision from WHOI climate scientist Anne Cohen. Pettit…
Read MoreNumbers
The REMUS 12.75 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is loaded onto the research vessel Knorr in 2004 for one of its first tests at sea. Now known as REMUS 600 (for…
Read MorePavement for the Seafloor
Heather Coleman, a graduate student from the University of California at Santa Barbara, examines a chunk of natural asphalt retrieved by the Alvin submersible from the Santa Barbara Channel. Natural…
Read MoreThe Seafloor in Microcosm
Scientists can’t observe magma moving beneath the seafloor, so WHOI geologist Glenn Gaetani makes his own. He subjects tiny capsules of powder (with a composition similar to the rocks in…
Read MoreAir-Sea Interaction
WHOI plankton ecologist Heidi Sosik (center, back to the camera) stands on the fantail of the coastal research vessel Tioga and explains ocean observatories and coastal dynamics to reporters participating…
Read MoreWhich One of These is Not Like the Others?
Longtime WHOI employeenow officially a retiree who forgot that he’s not supposed to be at workGeorge Tupper works on a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) water sampler in a Woods Hole workshop. Ocean…
Read MoreForesight
Expedition leader Will Sellers evaluates oncoming ocean swells as the crew prepares to lower the remotely operated vehicle Jason to the Pacific’s Juan de Fuca Ridge. Now in its third…
Read MoreOccupational Hazard
This fluid temperature logger got a little too close to a hydrothermal vent and melted; or better to say, the vent got too close to the logger. Deployed in November…
Read MoreSomewhere, Under the Fogbow
In between launches of underwater vehicles in July 2007, Peter Winsor and researchers on the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition lowered the conductivity-temperature-depth probe in order to look for telltale chemical…
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