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Seafloor to Space Station
He is two miles under water; she is 200 miles up in the atmosphere. Watch and listen to a phone call recorded on January 26, 2007 between biologist Tim Shank…
Read MoreWorking in the Twilight Zone
Particles sinking from sunlit surface waters through the ocean’s dimly lit twilight zone are often swept sideways by currents. Conventional moored or tethered traps designed to catch the particles for…
Read MoreTastes Great, Less Filling
One copepod Euchaeta norvegica gobbles up another Calanus finmarchicus (clear and sticking out of the top of Euchaeta) after being scooped out of New England waters. Both zooplankton were captured…
Read MoreHigh and Dry
On September 14, 1944, WHOI’s original research vessel Atlantis was moved to the dock of the National Marine Fisheries Service because of an impending hurricane; Captain Lambert Knight and four…
Read MorePeaks of Interest
MIT/WHOI graduate student Kristin Smith and marine chemist Chris Reddy examine data from a sample of oil that naturally seeped from the seafloor off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.…
Read MoreStaying on Track
The deep submergence vehicle Alvin slowly moves back into its hangar under the watchful eye of Expedition Leader and Alvin pilot Patrick Hickey. When not being raised or lowered into…
Read MoreNight Watch
Bigelow Laboratory stands as sentry over the WHOI dock as evening settles in. The building is named for oceanographer Henry Bryant Bigelow, first director of WHOI. It was the Institution’s…
Read MoreRace to the Pole – Below Ice
On this day in 1909, explorers Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and their Inuit guides Ootah, Egigingwah, Seegloo and Ooqueah claimed to be the first humans to reach the North Pole.…
Read MoreWeighing In
Research Associate John Lund of the WHOI Autonomous Systems Lab lowers a glider into a test tank to weigh it in water, part of the process of adjusting the ballast.…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr returns to its home port in Woods Hole on March 22, 2007 after six weeks at sea for the CLIMODE project. Launched in 1968 and…
Read MorePaint Job
Brian Hogue, a WHOI engineering assistant in the Physical Oceanography Department, paints “the cage” section of an ocean current monitoring instrument (the vector averaging current meter) in the paint booth…
Read MoreNew England Mud Time
WHOI Research Associate Bruce Keafer digs into a pile of muddy sediment from the bottom of the Gulf of Maine. Keafer and colleagues worked in that North Atlantic basin in…
Read MoreHorsing Around in Iceland
WHOI researchers and graduate students were greeted by hundreds of horses, wild and domestic, while trekking through the west coast of Iceland. The WHOI group made the field trip the…
Read MoreDay is Done
The Sun sets over the North Atlantic, as viewed through the hatch of the wet lab on the research vessel Oceanus in November 2006. (Photo by Frederick Woodruff, Energy Advisors,…
Read MoreASIMET Buoy Designs Over the Years
Three’s Company
Three Pacific white-sided dolphins sped alongside the research vessel Atlantis during an October 2006 transit along the Oregon coast. “A school of perhaps 200 of them surrounded us for a…
Read MoreRide ’em, Cowboy
Alvin pilot Valentine Wilson sits atop the research submarine, shown in its earliest incarnation in 1966 (the external shape and design have been altered a bit over the years). After…
Read MoreIce Chips
Jeremy Kaspar, a graduate student from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, keeps a watchful eye on the sea ice crowding the Chukchi Sea in September 2003. Working aboard the…
Read MoreBright Idea
Engineers Hugh Popenoe, Norm Farr, and Terry Hammar test a new optical modem system for the first time in the fall of 2006 on the dock in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.…
Read MoreEmbarking on a New Voyage
New graduate students from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography gather on the rear deck of the Corwith Cramer, an educational sailing ship operated by the Sea Education Association. Every…
Read MoreThe Sun Also Sets
The crescent Moon watches over the painted sky of sunset in December 2006 in the equatorial Pacific Ocean off of Mexico. The A-frame of the research vessel Atlantis and the…
Read MoreThe Seafloor Fights Back
While attempting to drive a piston corer into the compacted shelf sediments beneath the Chukchi Sea during a 2002 expedition, ocean researchers found themselves coping with bent and mangled equipment.…
Read MoreFirst Glacier I See Tonight
Elephant Island and its glacier greeted the scientists and crew of the research vessel Laurence M. Gould on December 1, 2004, as they cruised toward Antarctica’s Palmer Station. “It was…
Read MoreSlice of History
A slice through the center of a long-dead brain coral is a slice through human and ocean history. This 1,000-pound coral grew near Bermuda for 200 years. WHOI Research Associate…
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