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Stopping 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…
Read MoreReaching for Inner Space
On January 20, 1961 and in the midst of the Cold War the bathyscaphe Trieste rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue in the Inauguration Day parade in Washington, D.C. The float celebrates…
Read MoreNaming the Species in the Zoo
Geochemist Stan Hart examines data with MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Rhea Workman (now a researcher at the University of Hawaii). Hart was recently announced as the winner of the Arthur…
Read MoreDon’t Mess with This Crew
Engineers on research vessel Atlantis spend up to eight months a year at sea while maintaining the ship’s electrical and mechanical components. The diligence of the ship’s crew makes scientific expeditions…
Read MoreBright Spot
Kristin Pangallo, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, flame-seals a test tube while preparing samples for the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (NOSAMS) in February 2006. Located…
Read MoreKeeping an Eye on History
Ann Devenish and Ellen Levy (right) emerge from the forest of shelves in the MBL/WHOI data library and archives (DLA). The library holds more than 34,700 cataloged itemseverything from technical…
Read MoreReaching the Breaking Point
Engineering assistant Dara Tebo performs a “break test” to verify the strength of a cable in a WHOI rigging shop. Every new reel of wire received in the shop gets…
Read MoreInvasion of the Body Snatchers
Brown sea squirts formally known as tunicates, from the genus Didemnum attach themselves to a rock on a beach in Sandwich, Mass. WHOI research associate Mary Carman and colleagues have…
Read MoreRaising Expectations
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is raised onto the research vessel Kilo Moana after testing in the waters off Hawaii. The new vehicle which pushes the limits of…
Read MoreSoap Won’t Clean this Plate
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Karin Lemkau holds a peice of an oil-stained plate that was collected from the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Lemkau is assisting WHOI chemist Chris Reddy…
Read MoreAluminum Keeps Alvin from Being Foiled
The deep submergence vehicle (DSV) Aluminaut, shown here in 1966, was owned by the Reynolds Metals Co. (later Reynolds Aluminum) but it played a critical role in WHOI history. In…
Read MoreWind Power on Ice
WHOI engineering assistant Kris Newhall assembles a wind generator that will provide power to the Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (red-topped fixture protruding through the ice on the left). In April…
Read MoreUnder the (Red) Sea
The Red Sea harbors an abundance of coral, fish, and other marine creatures, particularly on the shelf edge outside of Jeddah (where this photo was taken). WHOI researchers will be…
Read MoreWelcome to Woods Hole
Dr. Susan Avery (at the lectern) answers questions from staff and students in October 2007 just hours after being introduced as the new president and director of the Woods Hole…
Read MoreDawn of a New Day
Sunrise over the Bay of Fundy is framed by a chock (through which mooring lines are passed) in the deck of the research vessel Oceanus. (Photo by Alexander Dorsk, Woods…
Read MoreBetter Training than Any Book
Summer Student Fellow Andy Howho worked in a WHOI Biology lab with Bruce Woodin and John Stegeman in 2007works to isolate RNA from Fundulus heteroclitus found in New Bedford Harbor…
Read MoreThank You, Jim
WHOI President and Director Jim Luyten (center) accepts the best wishes and a gift of appreciation from the Institution’s trustees during a January 2008 meeting in New York City. Luyten…
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