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Labor of Love
Nathaniel “Nat” Corwin prepares equipment for a chemical analysis of samples in WHOI’s Bigelow Laboratory, circa 1960. Nat was widely regarded for his painstaking analyses of the nutrients in seawater.…
Read MoreA Night on the Town
The WHOI-operated research vessel Atlantis passes a quiet night in the halogen shadow of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland.(Photo by Lance Wills, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreReunion of Two Coastal Sisters
The coastal research vessels Tioga (left) and Gulf Challenger enjoyed a June 2007 reunion at the WHOI pier. Operated by the University of New Hampshire, Gulf Challenger was designed and…
Read MoreGliding Toward the Future
Engineer Doug Webb and WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni examine the motor inside an ocean glider in Fratantoni’s lab in February 2008. Webb, a former WHOI employee who formed his…
Read MoreCute as a Button
Porpita porpitathe blue button jelly is a neustonic species mostly found in the tropics; that is, it floats right neat the surface of the water. The circular disc is made…
Read MoreInternational Polar Day
In the summer of 2005, a WHOI research team, led by John Kemp and Rick Krishfield, surveyed floes in the Beaufort Sea in search of ice thick enough for deployment…
Read MoreSmile! You’re on Habitat Camera
Norman Vine (from Advanced Habitat Imaging Consortium), Richard Taylor (a fisherman), and WHOI biologist Scott Gallager assemble on the Iselin pier after testing the habitat camera mapping system, or HabCam,…
Read MoreTaking Stock
Biologist Richard “Dick” Backus examines swordfish specimens in his WHOI laboratory, circa 1956. More than five decades later, Backus is still identifying the ocean’s bounty of life as a scientist…
Read MoreInspection Day
George Kevorkian of Conam Inspection scrutinizes Alvin’s titanium personnel sphere, examining weldments during the submersible’s overhaul in February 2006 (click for a Windows Media movie). His tools included a magnifying…
Read MoreClear as Mud
A smear of mud from a sediment core makes for a kaleidoscopic vision when observed under cross-polarized light. Polarizing filters help scientists identify each speck of organic and inorganic materials…
Read MoreCreature from the Black Depths
An isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico was caught and carried to the deck of the research vessel Atlantis in the science basket of the…
Read MoreFine Motor Skills
A technician in the WHOI Oceanographic Systems Laboratory installs the motor controller board for the thrusters in a REMUS 600 vehicle (so numbered for its ability to dive to 600…
Read MoreAlmost Famous
The French submersible Cyana is launched into the North Atlantic in 1974 as part of the French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study (Project FAMOUS). The submersibletogether with the WHOI-operated Alvin and the…
Read MoreRing Around the Tub
Researchers in the Alvin submersible came across this collapsed pit of lava on the seafloor near the Galapagos Rift. Marine geologists call these shelf-like structures “bathtub rings,” because they record…
Read MoreForm for Function
Engineer Chris Lumping (left) and welder Tony Delane examine the mooring anchor framework they built for a “multifunction node” (MFN) and buoy system that will help researchers monitor whale activity.…
Read MoreFeeling Crabby
A female crab with orange eggs tucked into her abdomen was collected from the deep seafloor during an Alvin dive in May 2005. Researchers return frequently to places like the…
Read MoreHot Head
This top piece of a black smoker chimney was plucked from the southern East Pacific Rise for study by geochemist Meg Tivey and colleagues. Named “Hobbes” by the research team,…
Read MoreLong Core Sea Trials
Learning from Life and Death
Marine mammal specialist Michael Moore and WHOI guest student Colby Moore (from the College of the Atlantic) prepare to examine a white-sided dolphin that had stranded and died on a…
Read MoreBasking
The R/V Knorr soaks up the sunlight at a dock in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the spring of 2007. The Knorr docked in Barbados before heading out to conduct drilling operations…
Read MoreLaunching and Recovering the Long Corer
Watch and hear how the long corer system works to recover sediments on the seafloor. By Amy Nevala, Jack Cook :: Originally published online February 29, 2008
Read MoreA Quick Change by the Pit Crew
WHOI technicians Casey Machado and Bob McCabe prepare the new hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) for deployment with its tool sled during a test cruise off Hawaii in November 2007. …
Read MoreSoaking Up the Moment
Oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy soaks up the sun after a successful expedition in the North Atlantic in 2005. McGillicuddy was recently selected by his peers to be the 2008 recipient of…
Read MoreYou’re Gonna Need a Bigger Shark
Richard “Dick” Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the…
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