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Getting in Tune
Able seaman Ronnie Whims, part of the crew of the research vessel Oceanus, plucks out a tune on his guitar while resting on the ship’s port-side deck near a Craib…
Read MoreStaying On Top of His Work
Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel Ronald…
Read MoreIce Water
The research vessel Knorr stands tall amid the pleasure boats and working boats at a dock in Reykjavik harbor. The ship put in some port time in Iceland before headling…
Read MoreSoaring
WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and oceanographer Jerry Dean recover the Seasoar towed vehicle (with a mounted video plankton recorder) in February 1997 from the research vessel Oceanus. The…
Read MoreTeeming with Opportunity
WHOI scientists captured this view of a coral reef in the Red Sea during a spring 2007 visit to Saudi Arabia. Researchers from the Middle East kingdom have asked WHOI…
Read MoreGo Sox
Working and living at sea is never easy, but it is even harder when your favorite team is in the World Series and you aren’t due home for two weeks.…
Read MoreA Firm Grip
Marine technician Gary Austin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory assembles a soft tether release on the Low Frequency Acoustic Seismic Experiment (LFASE) in August 1989. Researchers…
Read MoreCut Ups
Adelphi University researchers Amanda Uster and Beth Christensen (right) open a sediment core retrieved from the continental shelf off New Jersey during an August 2007 expedition on the research vessel…
Read MoreDog Days
WHOI research associate Terry Hammar works to attach some lead weights to a release mechanism beneath the ‘dog dish’ in preparation for testing the new “long core” system on the…
Read MoreUsing ITPs to Explore Change in the Arctic
(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007
Read MorePutting ITPs In and Getting Data Out
(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007
Read MoreIce Capades
(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007
Read MoreInstalling and Recovering an Ice-Tethered Profiler
He Doesn’t Do Windows
WHOI engineering assistant Sean Whelan cleans the longwave and shortwave radiometer domes on top of a Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station buoy during an April 2006 expedition off Barbados. The buoys measure…
Read MoreLearning from a Master
WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp got his hands (and knees) dirty in the summer of 2006 while leading the logistical effort to deploy 62 moorings for the Shallow Water…
Read MoreNext of Kin
On December 11, 1968, the Deep Submergence Vehicle Sea Cliff (DSV-4) was christened and launched at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation for the U.S. Navy. The personnel sphere…
Read MoreFirst Mud
[From foreground to background] WHOI researchers Bill Curry and Jim Broda, as well as Rolf Ambjornsen of the Norwegian marine services company Odim, help retrieve the first sediment ever collected…
Read MoreClap Trap
A set of “clap traps” await deployment on the fantail of the research vessel Roger Revelle in the summer of 2005. Clap traps are moored instruments designed to collect particles…
Read MoreA Closer Look
2007 Summer Student Fellow Carolina Gutierrez assists Tom Siemens (Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center of the University of New England) with a necropsy on a seal. Dozens of animals, most often…
Read MoreFar Afield
WHOI Trustee Peter Aron gets a close-up view of a penguin during a cruise with the WHOI Associates to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, Tasmania, and New Zealand in November 2005. The…
Read MoreWHOI on the Big Stage
WHOI’s Acting President and Director James Luyten joins other state and federal dignitaries in announcing a $97.7 million contract to support the development, installation, and initial operation of the coastal…
Read MoreCannon Salute
Senior Engineer Ben Allen fires a canon to herald the return of research vessel Knorr as it cruised into Woods Hole after the successful first test of the ship’s new…
Read MoreCirculatory System of the Ocean
A global system of ocean circulationoften called the “great ocean conveyor” transports vast amounts of heat and salt around the planet via warmer surface currents (red) and colder deep currents…
Read MoreSteady as She Goes
Tess Brandon and Kelsey Winsor 2007 participants in the Summer Student Fellowship program deploy a box corer off the stern of research vessel Tioga. In addition to lectures and time…
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