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If Found
In the second of two cruises to study the movement of dense water flowing through the Denmark Strait, WHOI oceanographer Bob Pickart returned to the East Greenland coast this […]
Read MoreDynamite Recovery
Jeff Pietro, Scott Worrilow, Chief Scientist Ruth Curry, and an R/V Atlantic Explorer crew member (left to right) recover a mooring line to the fantail of the ship […]
Read MoreWorking Under Ice
Red White Red, Restricted Ability Ahead
Under a full moon in May 2012, R/V Atlantis stopped in the North Atlantic to lower a rosette samper with a CTD sensor into the ocean as part […]
Read MoreCurrent Affair
A 2011 expedition led by WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart confirmed the existence of a previously unknown ocean current called the North Icelandic Jet. It feeds cold, […]
Read MoreSunset at Sea
The sun sets behind RV Knorr during a cruise to the Bermuda Rise in 2011 to work on the Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment, or DynaMITE. Chief […]
Read MoreA Journey North
In August 2011, research vessel Knorr left Iceland for the Denmark Strait to deploy a dozen moorings that will be collected one year later. Instruments on the moorings […]
Read MoreGrendel’s Lair
End of the Rainbow, Ends of the Earth
In August 2011, R/V Knorr sailed to the North Atlantic to deploy a set of moorings across the Denmark Strait. The moorings will remain in place for one […]
Read MoreLine Across the Denmark Strait
A team from R/V Knorr prepares to deploy a mooring in the Denmark Strait in August 2011. The instruments on the mooring will help measure water flowing through […]
Read MoreCold Feet
Photographer Rachel Fletcher, currently on board the Knorr with WHOI’s Robert Pickart, recently took this picture of kittiwakes on an iceberg off the coast of Greenland. Pickart is leading […]
Read MoreShells in the Sands of Time
A view from the bridge
It’s just another relatively routine autumn day in the North Atlantic for the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr. On an expedition to the Irminger Sea in October 2007, […]
Read MoreA surprising return
One of the “pumps” that helps drive the ocean’s global circulation suddenly switched on again last winter for the first time this decade. The “pump” is in the western […]
Read MoreDeep Waters on the Move
Deep Atlantic Ocean circulation, part of the “global conveyor” system, strongly affects climate. WHOI, U.S. and international researchers launched more than 200 data-gathering floats into the North Atlantic between […]
Read MoreCh-Ch-Changes…
When scientists observed and analyzed four decades of hydrographic data, they found that tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters had become saltier over the course of 40 years (shown in […]
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