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Inspection 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…
Read MoreStopping By Woods Hole on a Snowy Evening
WHOI biologists Heidi Sosik and Melissa Patrician pause for a picture in the midst of unloading their gear from a survey cruise on the research vessel Tioga to the Martha’s…
Read MoreEscort Service
A pod of dolphins escort the research vessel Atlantis (with its bow casting a shadow on the water) through the Pacific Ocean in 2006. (Photo by Anton Zafereo, Woods Hole…
Read MoreStuffing the Suitcase
On the dock at Sand Island in Hawaii, the new hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is loaded into its shipping container for travel back to Woods Hole after several…
Read MoreMany Hands Make Light Work
Mechanic Richard “Dicky” Edwards repairs part of a crane in the WHOI machine shop in 2007. The crane is used for launching and recovering the Jason remotely operated vehicle. The…
Read MoreBare Bones Research
This whale bonefrom the collection at the New Bedford Whaling Museumwas examined by WHOI biologist Michael Moore and colleagues to help determine if whales can get “the bends,” also known…
Read MoreBuck Never Stopped
Buck Ketchum prepares to deploy a water-sampling bottle, circa 1970. Ketchum was associated with WHOI for 40 years and was a leader in the development of biological oceanography. His research…
Read MoreWhale of a Project
Working in the recently renovated Coastal Research Laboratory at WHOI, engineering assistant Paul Fraser puts finishing touches on a surface buoy that will be later deployed in Massachusetts waters for…
Read MoreSmoke Stack
A mechanical arm on the Alvin submersible reaches out for a sample from a “black smoker” hydrothermal vent along the East Pacific Rise. Black smokers are so named because they…
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