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Operating Without a Tether
WHOI research engineer Casey Machado works on Nereid Hybrid Tether (HT) during dock trials recently. The “hybrid” in Nereid HT’s name means the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) can either be…
Read More(Fluid) Dynamic Lecturers
The principal lecturers of the 2016 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program at WHOI were Peko Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Shelley, co-director…
Read MoreWhat I Did On My Summer Vacation
Falmouth Morse Pond School students Lauryn McGann, Natalie Packard, and Alexia Morton (left to right) spent part of their summer building a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The rising sixth graders…
Read MoreRing Around the CTD
Every summer, the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science. The students attend lectures by…
Read MoreScience After Hours
Each year, virtually all the marsh grass in coastal wetlands dies, but very little plant material remains buried in sediments. Understanding where this organic matter goes is an important part…
Read MoreDiving Into Work
Oceanographers use tools ranging from simple nets to complex autonomous robots, but there are times when only a human presence in the ocean will suffice. WHOI diving safety officer Ed…
Read MoreFruits of their Labor
This Labor Day, a very satisfied team on R/V Neil Armstrong is headed to port after a successfully servicing moorings on the OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program) array…
Read MoreAble-Bodied at Sea
R/V Neil Armstrong able-bodied seaman (AB) Pete Boucher secures one of the lines that keep the ship safely attached to the dock when in port. Both the ABs and the…
Read MoreReal Data, Real Oceanography
In the lab on WHOI’s coastal vessel Tioga, instructor Cindy Sellers shows undergraduate students real-time data on water conductivity, temperature, and depth from a CTD instrument lowered from the boat.…
Read MoreWelcome Aboard
WHOI Ship Operations Director Al Suchy, left, was among those who greeted Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on the WHOI dock in June. WHOI VP for Marine Operations Rob Munier makes…
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong in the North Atlantic
In the summer of 2016, R/V Neil Armstrong completed its first mission to the NSF-sponsored Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array in the Irminger Sea. After servicing the moorings that make…
Read MoreExtreme Grinding
This is what’s left of a many-toothed tungsten drill bit after drilling through rock far beneath the seafloor. WHOI geologist Henry Dick recently led a voyage to the Indian Ocean,…
Read MoreGetting Their Feet Wet
Summer Student Fellows Victoria Garefino (left) and Cynthia Becker (center) collect killifish for their research in Scorton Creek on Cape Cod with WHOI biologist Neel Aluru. These small, abundant fish…
Read MorePort of Call
The research vessel Neil Armstrong tied up in Reykjavik, Iceland, recently—its first foreign port-of-call. The ship was between cruises in the North Atlantic. After finishing a trip to the Ocean Observatories Initiative‘s…
Read MoreIn the Zone
Kevin Archibald and Chrissy Hernandez, students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, visit a Cape Cod beach to study the intertidal zone, the area exposed between high and low tides. They…
Read MoreAlbatross III
R/V Albatross III first sailed under the name Harvard for the North Atlantic Fishery Investigations in Woods Hole. In 1941, the ship was rebuilt, renamed Bellefonte and used by the U.S.…
Read MoreCharting Education’s Course
R/V Tioga crew member Ian Hanley (far left) teaches undergraduate students (left to right) Arina Favilla (University of Miami), Emily Neel (Wellesley College), Gabriela Negrete (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Kwanza…
Read MoreWheel Not Included
A group of WHOI Associates took a tour in June of the bridge of WHOI’s newest research vessel, Neil Armstrong, where Second Mate Mike Singleton showed them the surprisingly small…
Read MoreBelly of the Buoy
WHOI engineering assistants Brian Kelly (left) and Steve Caldwell (inside the buoy frame) mount instruments on the bottom of a large surface buoy destined for the South Atlantic Ocean off…
Read MoreWhat You Can’t See
R/V Neil Armstrong passed this iceberg as the ship approached one of the OSNAP (Overturning in the Sub-polar North Atlantic Program) mooring sites east of Greenland last week. Deep-keeled ice…
Read MoreNet Returns
Researcher Phil Alatalo (second from left) helps students aboard WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga rinse down a plankton net. Students in two undergraduate programs—the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship Program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education…
Read MoreChemistry on Ice
Members of the 2016 Geodynamics Seminar rest after a 12-mile hike at the terminus of Skeiðarárjökull, on the southern edge of Iceland’s largest ice cap. Each year, the seminar takes an in-depth,…
Read MoreIn the Palm of Her Hand
On a windy April day, Joint Program student Lei Ma (center) shows a tiny hermit crab to fellow students Kevin Archibald and Chrissy Hernandez (right) and instructor Lauren Mullineaux (left),…
Read MoreThe Buoys Are Back in Town
WHOI’s Gary Cook (foreground) and Kip Eaton from Raytheon Corp. prepare a surface mooring for a year-long deployment in the Argentine Basin in the South Atlantic Ocean. The location is…
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