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Tie a Yellow Ribbon (4.5 mile version)
At Puget Sound Ropes in Anacortes, Washington, the first few meters of a new synthetic rope are flaked into a shipping container (left). The rope, blended from two ultra-high strength…
Read MoreFrom blueprint to reality
Geoff Ekblaw works from engineering drawings (foreground) while welding the foundation mounts for solar panels that will sit atop a moored buoy. A senior fabricator and welder, Ekblaw has spent…
Read MoreWhat’s in a Name?
When Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott captured a specimen of a worm-like hagfish during a dive in the depths of the Pacific in March 2005, he recalled thinking it was “cool…but…
Read MoreUp Close and Personal
WHOI researchers had a close encounter with this humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)during an expedition on Stellwagen Bank, off the coast of Massachusetts. Biologists have been tagging humpbacks and right whales…
Read MoreWhere Will It Go?
Summer Student Fellow Tomasso Ascarelli (from the University of Rome) and WHOI Senior Scientist Jack Whitehead (foreground right) examine the flow of dye in a fluid dynamics experiment. The blue…
Read MoreLuck of the Alvin
Forty one years ago this week, Alvin pilots Bill Rainnie and Marvin McCamis located an unexploded hydrogen bomb that had accidentally been dropped into the Mediterranean Sea two months earlier…
Read MoreBreak on Through
The Canadian coast guard icebreaker Louis St. Laurent stands tall above the ice-capped Beaufort Sea. Since 2003, researchers from WHOI, the Canadian Institute of Ocean Sciences, and the Japan Marine…
Read MoreHunting for Water
Gear and instruments for the CLIVAR Mode Water Dynamics Experiment (CLIMODE) is stacked on the deck of the research vessel Oceanus, while crew members prepare to cast a conductivity-temperature-depth rosette…
Read MoreSpinning a Yarn About the Sea
As principal instructors for the Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program in 1968 the topic was “general circulation of the ocean” physical oceanographers Henry Stommel (left) and Lou Howard hopped…
Read MoreHitching a ride
As the science team and crew of R/V Oceanus steamed home from the Gulf of Maine in November 2006, a cormorant perched itself on the side rail of the ship.…
Read MoreCheckout line
WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord keeps an eye on the gear while guiding winch operators as they recover the STRATUS VI moored buoy in October 2006 off of the…
Read MoreFlowers of the Deep
Anemones cover a rock roughly 80 meters (250 feet) beneath the water line on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. The photo was taken by…
Read MoreMussel Building
In a WHOI biology lab, graduate student Diane Poehls Adams is breeding blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, from larvae to mature adults. These mussels experience different genetic selection pressures—leading them to express different genes…
Read MoreChain Gang
Salpa aspera, a jelly-like species of animal found in the Atlantic Ocean, can link into chains several meters long and comprised of as many as 80 individuals. These “salps” form…
Read MoreTaking the Ball and Going Home
Crew members from the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Pierre Radisson use a Zodiac inflatable boat to recover a mooring from Hudson Strait in northeastern Canada in September 2006. The sub-surface…
Read MoreVPR Photo Gallery
Doppler Shift
Engineer Rob Goldsborough of the WHOI Oceanographic Systems Laboratory works to integrate an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) into the electronics of the Tunnel Inspection Vehicle (TIV). WHOI researchers adapted…
Read MoreHigh-wire Act
WHOI researcher Fritz Hess transfers by highline from the USS Hazelwood to Atlantis II during the search for the lost nuclear submarine Thresher in 1963. Making just its second voyage…
Read MoreWhales
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Read MoreRemove the Water, Carry the Water
WHOI Associate Scientist Matt Charette (left) and Research Assistant Matt Allen use pumps and instruments deployed on a canoe to collect water samples from Pamet Harbor in Truro, Mass. By…
Read MoreFlipping out
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breached while WHOI researchers were working to tag whales near Stellwagen Bank. No one knows for sure why whales breach the water surface; some researchers…
Read MoreTrapped
Senior research engineer Scott Worrilow (foreground) and boatswain Patrick Hennessy recover a sediment trap from the Pacific Ocean and return it to the deck of the research vessel Atlantis in…
Read MoreBuoyed by Ice
A specialized bulldozer (aka the “Piston Bully”) pulls a shipping container mounted on skis the “Thunder Sled” across the ice cover of Antarctica’s Ross Sea in the middle of a…
Read MoreDance by the Sea
Members of the lively Woods Hole folk dancing community turned out in October 1977 to help celebrate the return of the research vessel Atlantis II from the longest WHOI cruise up…
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