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Dog Days

Dog 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…

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Ice Capades

(Video by Tim Silva, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online October 25, 2007

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He Doesn’t Do Windows

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…

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Learning from a Master

Learning 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…

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Next of Kin

Next 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…

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First Mud

First 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…

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Clap Trap

Clap 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…

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A Closer Look

A 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…

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Far Afield

Far 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…

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WHOI on the Big Stage

WHOI 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…

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Cannon Salute

Cannon 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…

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Circulatory System of the Ocean

Circulatory System of the Ocean

A global system of ocean circulation—often called the “great ocean conveyor” transports vast amounts of heat and salt around the planet via warmer surface currents (red) and colder deep currents…

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Steady as She Goes

Steady 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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This Seaweed’s Not for Sushi

This Seaweed's Not for Sushi

[From left] Biologists Don Anderson (WHOI), Deana Erdner (University of Texas and former member of Anderson’s lab) and Robert Dickey (U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory) traveled…

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Cover Your Back

Cover Your Back

While the icebreaker Oden was smashing ice and trying to push it away from the bow, the ship’s officers also kept an eye on Oden’s aft, 107.7 meters (353 feet)…

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The Clapper

The Clapper

A crew member on the research vessel Kilo Moana assists in the deployment of a “clap-trap” mooring during the summer 2004 Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) project off…

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Get a Grip

Get a Grip

Working at the WHOI dock, summer student fellow Tess Brandon (Cornell University) and WHOI engineering assistant Amy Kukulya prepare a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle for a research trip out to…

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Share a Cup of Friendship

Share a Cup of Friendship

In January 2007, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and WHOI biologist Tim Shank made the first-ever phone call from outer space (the International Space Station) to inner space (the deep ocean…

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Preserving the Future of Research

Preserving the Future of Research

Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer (Brown University) holds a jar of juvenile crabs collected from the deep ocean floor along the East Pacific Rise. Working in the laboratory of WHOI…

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Grappling with a Bloom

Grappling with a Bloom

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Christie Wood (foreground) and postdoctoral investigator Alfredo Aretxabaleta prepare to recover the conductivity-temperature-depth rosette during the NOAA Rapid Response cruise to study red tide in…

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Portrait of a Species on the Brink

Portrait of a Species on the Brink

Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) populations have been severely depleted by humans throughout most of their range. Several large spawning aggregations still exist in the western part of its range near…

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