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Alvin Aloft
A team carefully unloaded the submersible Alvin from its support ship R/V Atlantis last week, as Atlantis prepares for a series of trips to recover and deploy instruments associated with the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories…
Read MoreMytilus Fine Day
A double rainbow arches over WHOI Associate Scientist Dave Ralston as he ties up the Mytilus, one of several vessels in WHOI’s small boat fleet. Ralston used the Mytilus to deploy…
Read MoreTele-commuting
WHOI engineers Peter Brickley (foreground) and Diana Wickman monitored glider deployments occurring from R/V Knorr while sitting in the comfort of the Coleman and Susan Burke Operations Room at WHOI. The…
Read MorePlaying a Part
Stephen Drew, WHOI Food Services Planner and cook serves up fresh, hot pizza daily at WHOI’s caffeteria, the Buttery. Drew and the other staff do more than just feed hungry scientists and…
Read MoreCoral Thermometers
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Whitney Bernstein and her advisor, Konrad Hughen of the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department, sort and measure cores taken from massive Porites corals in November 2008. After splitting the cores, they…
Read MoreRadiation Detectives
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Erin Black (right) and guest student Ben Duncan sliced open a marine sediment core taken in January 2015 from the Marshall Islands, site of U.S. nuclear…
Read MoreFeeding Frenzy
WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore, along with John Durban of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center and colleagues, ventured out into Stellwagen Bank…
Read MoreEyes on Plankton
WHOI engineers, together with scientists from Duke University and the University of Oregon Institute recently deployed a novel plankton sampler attached to the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry from R/V Atlantis.…
Read MoreCool Blue Recovery
Onboard the R/V Roger Revelle in March 2015, the crew that pilots and oversees the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason awaited the return of Medea, Jason‘s partner vehicle, to the ship…
Read MoreOrca Rising
Orcas (Orcinus orca), also called killer whales, hunt prey such as penguins and seals that spend some of their time out of the water. They are known to spy-hop—hold their…
Read MoreOutlaw Algae in Alaskan Waters
Monitoring the Ice
In 2006, scientists at WHOI and the University of Washington discovered that cracks can form suddenly at the bottom of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet and drain the lakes…
Read MoreMercury Rising?
Every summer, up to 15 college students get to work side-by-side with WHOI researchers as part of the Partnership Education Program (PEP), a program founded by six science institutions in Woods…
Read MoreUndersea Constellation
In April, WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda worked aboard the research vessel Alucia, to study the ecology and oceanography of Hannibal Seamount, an undersea mountain rising from 1,377 to 130 feet…
Read MoreOcean Weather Station
Heavily instrumented buoys like this Coastal Surface Mooring (CSM) being recovered aboard the R/V Knorr, are part of the NSF-funded Pioneer Array, a network of moorings, gliders, and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)…
Read MoreGlide Path
An ocean glider is brought back aboard the R/V Knorr by a WHOI engineering team including (left to right) Jim Ryder, John Lund, Jeff Pietro and Aidan Alai. The glider…
Read MoreServing Up Synechococcus
Kristen Hunter-Cevera investigates abundant organisms in the ocean, a photosynthetic bacteria called Synechococcus, that are also an important food source in the marine food chain and produce a significant portion of…
Read MoreDeep-sea Workhorse
Designed and built by WHOI scientists, the original vehicle Jason was launched in 1988. A more advanced, second-generation Jason (pictured) launched in 2002. Jason is a remotely operated vehicle—a tether links it to a control room on a research…
Read MoreNewbie NUI
One of the newest vehicles developed at WHOI with funding from the National Science Foundation, Nereid Under Ice (NUI) enables researchers to explore the fascinating extreme habitat under sea ice.…
Read MoreHannibal’s Secrets
Researchers Jesús Pineda and Vicke Starczak had a front-row view in April 2015 as DSV Rover (pictured) and DSV Nadir descended from the research vessel Alucia to Hannibal Seamount in the Panamanian Pacific. At…
Read MoreSummer Studies
Berlinda Batista of Bridgewater State University, Ellin Rittler of University of San Francisco, and Kelly Luis of Columbia University (left to right) learn how to perform a beach survey in the…
Read MoreHard Core
Michael Toomey (front) and Chris Maio, of the Coastal Systems Group, provide small boat support for a coring platform, the R/V Arenaria (pictured in the distance), off the Newfoundland coast. The…
Read MoreBackyard Show-and-Tell
Visitors learned about the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whale detection mooring during a public event in June 2015. The listening system allows researchers to detect the location of right…
Read MoreTwo Men, a Boat, and a Float
WHOI engineers Jim Dunn (foreground) and Matt Gould test an acoustic-release float in Woods Hole Harbor. The float is packed with thousands of feet of line and designed to sit…
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