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High Profile
Researchers recover the “microprofiler” and return it to the deck of the research vessel Atlantis during the LADDER 3 cruise along the East Pacific Rise in November 2007. Working from…
Read MoreSome Assembly Required
Research assistant Amber York works on the PRIMO vertical profiling vehicle while biologist Scott Gallager calibrates the video plankton recorder (VPR) that will go on the PRIMO system. The Polar…
Read MoreAlmost Ready for Prime Time
WHOI engineers[left to right] Andy Billings, Griff Outlaw, and Rod Catanachprepare to test the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle off of the coastal research vessel Tioga in December 2007. After several…
Read MoreMakes a Nice Sandwich
A cluster of Tevnia jerichonana tubeworms sprout from a “sandwich”an artificial colonization surface made of the non-toxic plastic lexan. The sandwich was recovered from the seafloor after spending 11 months…
Read More63 years ago today
Just off the WHOI pier, ice crowds Great Harbor in Woods Hole on January 27, 1945. Penzance Point looms in the background. (Photo courtesy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
Read MoreJust Before the Dawn
Nika Staglicic of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (Croatia) awaits sunrise over the Pacific on the deck of the research vessel Atlantis. Staglicic took part in the LADDER 3…
Read MoreWhat’s Behind Door #1?
Marine chemist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink prepares to enter the PicoTrace clean laboratory, which was built to offer scientists a contamination-free environment for analysis of ultra-trace-elements in their samples. The mobile, state-of-the-art,…
Read MoreLiving on Eggshells
The Russian-operated “ice camp Barneo” was the temporary home of WHOI research specialist Rick Krishfield and engineering assistant Kris Newhall in April 2007. The tents, people, and their gear rested…
Read MoreSea ice through the years
Watch how the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice extent has declined since 1979. By Kate Madin :: Originally published online January 23, 2008
Read MoreMoving Parts
The research submersible Alvin is lifted off of its sled and track as it is deployed from the R/V Atlantis in November 2007. The track system helps keep the 17-ton…
Read MoreA Bit of Sand and Sun
Grey seals congregate and relax on Billingsgate Shoal, near Wellfleet, Mass. WHOI biologists Andrea Bogomolni and Michael Moore have joined colleagues in screening seals and other marine animals and their…
Read MoreWet Paint
The freshly painted bow of the research vessel Knorr gleams in the sunlight at the Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2005. The ship was hauled out for deck…
Read MoreComfortable in Its Own Skin
WHOI engineers Bob Brown and Tito Collasius (right) check the fit of the yellow outer skin over the lifting eye of the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle. In development and testing…
Read MoreStanding Tall
Captain A.D. Colburn former master of the research vessel Knorr, now master of Atlantis cruises around Woods Hole’s harbor in his skiff. The Sea Education Association‘s research and teaching vessel,…
Read MorePolar Bear Club
Polar bears are excellent swimmers and have been seen in open Arctic waters, as far as 110 kilometers (60 nautical miles) from land. The bears’ long, tapered bodies streamline them…
Read MoreMagic Cool Bus
WHOI engineer John Kemp, head of deck operations during the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition, supervises Camper’s deployment off the fantail of Oden. The towed vehicle was mobilized to find the…
Read MoreThey Walk the Line
WHOI engineer John Kemp (left) and oceanographer Peter Winsor make their way down the food line on the icebreaker Oden. On the Swedish icebreaker, the gravy train usually starts with…
Read MoreDo You Feel Small When You Stand Beside the Ocean?
Skylar Bayera guest student in the WHOI Biology Department and a 2007 summer student fellowis dwarfed by the expansive Pacific Ocean and the A-frame on the fantail of the research…
Read MoreSense of Humor? Priceless
A REMUS-600 autononomous underwater vehicle sits on its cradle outside the Oceanographic Systems Lab. The AUV, which can dive to 600 meters, has a modular design to accommodate varying payloads…
Read MoreHappy Campers
Members of the “Camper” camera and sampling team gather on the fantail of the icebreaker Oden before the last launch of the vehicle in the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition. From…
Read MoreA Small Sample
Maria Tausendfreund takes a water sample from a melt pond on top of an Arctic ice floe, which she will later analyze for microbes living in it. The graduate student…
Read MoreExtracting Messages from the Bottle
Josh Burton, a research assistant in the WHOI-operated National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (NOSAMS) facility adjusts the valves on a water-stripping vacuum line that removes dissolved inorganic carbon from…
Read MoreCommand and Control
During September 2007 sea trials on the research vessel Knorr, WHOI technicians and researchers tested the powerful articulated hydraulic grapple that holds the ship’s new “long-core” system during launch operations.…
Read MoreBasket Catch
There’s a joke among WHOI staff that John Kemp will miss no opportunity to get into a ship’s crane-operated metal basket. In July 2007, Ola Andersson (chief officer of the…
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