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Test for Echo
Christian Begler of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography deploys a pressure-and-inverted echo sounder (PIES) as a part of the German-led Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment (MOVE). The MOVE group joined WHOI…
Read MoreCrane Man
Able-bodied seaman Leo Fitz peers out from the controls of the crane on the research vessel Oceanus during an October 2007 cruise in the North Atlantic. Fitz and other members…
Read MorePole to Pole
On April 23, the outreach team of WHOI’s Polar Discovery web expeditions reached the farthest tip of inhabited land in North America Canadian Forces Station Alert. Today, exactly seven months…
Read MoreTakes a Licking and Keeps on Clicking
WHOI engineer Tom Hurst (pictured) and his colleague Mark Johnson created a customized attachment for using digital tags, or D-tags, to track the movements, behaviors, and vocalizations of manatees. The…
Read MoreInstead of Counting Sheep
In the wee hours of a September 2007 morning, WHOI research associate Kathryn Rose (foreground) and research assistant Marti Jeglinski (background) worked alongside coring technician Chris Moser of Oregon State…
Read MoreEavesdropping
MIT/WHOI graduate student Ari Shapiro takes a break from listening to the vocalizations of narwhals. His computer screen shows a spectrograma plot of sound frequency versus time of one of…
Read MoreDog Dish Afternoon
Bosun Peter Liarikos works with the “dog dish” so named for its shape on the new long-coring instrument on the research vessel Knorr. The dog dish contains all of the…
Read MorePole Position
WHOI science writer Mike Carlowicz interviews NOAA scientist Sigrid Salo during a flight from Resolute Bay, Canada, to Canadian Forces Station Alert. Along for the flight to Alert were (back…
Read MoreMuddy Past
Konrad Hughen, a paleoclimatologist in the WHOI Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, recently worked with archaeologist and anthropologists to show that Neanderthals probably did not die out from an…
Read MoreSteadying Hands
Able Seaman Clindor Cacho holds tight to the hook end of a winch on the research vessel Oceanus. Researchers and crew have sailed on the vessel several times this year…
Read MoreSpreading the Jelly
This “colonial” jelly a siphonophore of the Rosacea genus was spied in April 2006 by divers in the blue waters of the Sargasso Sea during a Census of Marine Zooplankton…
Read MoreKnow with the Flow
Students Jinbo Wang (left) and Evgeny Logvinov help conduct a Rossby wave experiment in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as part of a graduate course. Red dye was injected into…
Read MorePillars of a Community
WHOI seafloor geologist Dan Fornari and then-graduate student Tracey Gregg inspect a portion of a lava pillar that was generated during a 1991 eruption on the East Pacific Rise (EPR).…
Read MoreDancing Cows of the Sea
Despite their lumbering appearance, manatees are graceful swimmers and to many, a vanishing symbol of wild Florida. Researchers from WHOI and several science and conservation institutions hope digital tags, or…
Read MoreDay of Knight
A group of journalists from the Knight Science Journalism program assemble on the aft deck of the research vessel Oceanus for a tour in October 2007 with WHOI science writer…
Read MoreI Love the Night Life
The lights are on, but (almost) nobody’s home on a Saturday night in Woods Hole in March 2007. From left to right stand the Candle House and Visitor Center of…
Read MoreUnusual Commute to Work
Researchers and technicians from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boarded and refurbished the “Middle Atlantic” buoy of the National Data Buoy Center network during an April 2007 expedition. WHOI…
Read MoreReef Watch
A clownfish swims amid the corals of the Red Sea, where WHOI researchers are planning to team with colleagues from Saudi Arabia to examine a reef system that has mostly…
Read MoreMuddy Waters
Bryn Warren, guest student in the WHOI Biology Department, and WHOI postdoctoral fellow Luciano Fernandes process mud samples collected from the Gulf of Maine in October 2007. The researchers were…
Read MoreCoral Destruction
Cold Insulation
When sea ice forms, it releases salt into surface waters. These waters become denser and sink to form the Arctic halocline a layer of cold water that acts as barrier…
Read MoreWHOI Pier Over Time
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Read MoreAscension Day
A crewmember from the research vessel Knorr rises into a helicopter operated by the Icelandic coast guard during a recent cruise in the North Atlantic. When the coast guard came…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The science party on the research vessel Knorr looks forward to its homecoming in Woods Hole after two weeks at sea testing the new Long Core system. (Photo by Richard…
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