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Checking It Twice
The Newest Arctic Explorers
Puma and Jaguar are autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to overcome the technical challenges that have long precluded scientific exploration in the deep reaches of the Arctic Ocean. […]
Read MoreBooby Prize
A booby flies by and checks out the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station (WHOTS III) shortly after researchers and technicians deployed it off of Hawaii in June 2006 from […]
Read MoreMaking the Classroom Come Alive
Graduate students and scientists gather for a photo postcard from Godafoss, Iceland in June 2006. Every year, MIT/WHOI students in the Geodynamics Program make a field expedition to connect […]
Read MoreDrops in the Bucket
Teamwork
Engineering assistant Michael McCarthy (left) and senior engineering assistant Neil McPhee work to assemble the surface buoy for a GumbyMoor, a new mooring design that allows the line […]
Read MoreWorth Every (Sand) Dollar
Ensign Greg Dietzen a student in the MIT/WHOI graduate program and a U.S. Navy officer was named this week as the 2007 recipient of the Rear Admiral Richard […]
Read MoreTesting…1, 2, 3
Research Associate Rick Krishfield, a veteran of more than two dozen Arctic expeditions, tests the electronics and programming of the “Arctic Winch” during the 2005 leg of the […]
Read MoreDegree of Honor
With the research vessel Knorr in the background, the first graduates of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering received their diplomas in Woods Hole on June […]
Read MoreA Solid Foundation
Springtime in the Arctic Circle
From April 1 to 13, 2007, WHOI chemists and geologists explored the Mackenzie River Delta in the Canadian Arctic in search of clues of historic and recent changes in the […]
Read MoreRice in a Snow Storm
Biology graduate student Kristen Whalen inspects a gorgonian (also known as a soft coral or sea fan) for a specialist nudibranch that feeds exclusively on this one species. […]
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
Dock workers use a crane to lift the 48,500-pound rope storage winch onto the deck of the research vessel Knorr. The winch will hold a fiber rope that […]
Read MoreGetting to the Core of the Matter
Geologist Jeff Donnelly (right foreground) demonstrates his techniques for extracting sediment cores from coastal marshes. Donnelly and colleagues have been examining the history of hurricane strikes along […]
Read MoreHistory of WHOI Ships
Three Atlantises
Ice, Ice Baby
WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp is lowered in a basket to recover a buoy from the ice during a summer 2004 expedition to study the upper layers of the […]
Read MoreChain Gang
MIT/WHOI graduate student Annette Hynes captured this microscope photograph, or micrograph, of a colony of Trichodesmium at 1000x magnification. A form of primitive, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, Trichodesmium are […]
Read MoreTotally Tangled Tethers
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kelly Rakow attempts to untangle the tethers attached to her fellow divers during a “blue water” dive off the Pacific coast of Panama. The […]
Read MoreYellow Submarine Volcano Watcher
Will Ostrom, Keith von der Heydt, and Neil McPhee (from left to right) prepare to lower and test the base of the Real-time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) buoy […]
Read MoreWhat’s Left When the Glacier Retreats?
Daily Dose of Vitamins
Graduate student Erin Bertrand (right) and assistant scientist Mak Saito, biogeochemists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution, have found evidence that B12, an essential vitamin for people, also Read More
Slug-fest
Brightly colored slugs feed on a variety of sea whips and sea fans that populate tropical coral reefs. “They munch with their modified tooth,” said WHOI biology doctoral student […]
Read MoreWHOTS Up?
Jeff Lord, a WHOI senior engineering assistant, directs the deployment of the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station II buoy. In cooperation with the University of Hawaii and its […]
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