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Loaded to Dive
WHOI electronics technician Casey Agee helped load a set of isobaric gas-tight samplers (IGTs) onto a platform in the front of the remotely operated vehicle Jason during a 2014 expedition to the East Pacific Rise.…
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In 1968, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced the creation of a joint program for graduate studies in oceanography. Today, the marriage is still…
Read MoreListen In
The WHOI dock not only provides a place for research vessels to tie up, it also offers Institution scientists and engineers ready access to the water as they develop new…
Read MoreRobotic Point of View
WHOI scientist Yogesh Girdhar is working to endow underwater robots with an ability that is particularly human: curiosity. Specifically, he is writing algorithms that will allow robots to distinguish interesting…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
William Stelling Von Arx (1916-1999), shown here working with a wide-angle cloud camera and lens, first came to WHOI in 1945. He is known for his work in physical oceanography…
Read MoreBeach Day
In 2013, WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler went to Japan, where he collected samples of groundwater and beach sands as part of his and chemist Matt Charette’s work tracking the spread…
Read MoreAll Battened Down
Lines on Knorr were doubled Monday in advance of a blizzard moving up the East Coast forecast to bring hurricane-strength gusts and near-record amounts of snowfall. WHOI port engineer Dutch Wegman…
Read MoreStorm Library
WHOI guest student Margaret DiGiorno returns a core sample from Blackmore Pond in Wareham, Mass., to its place in a refrigerated storage unit. DiGiorno, an undergraduate student from Northeastern University,…
Read MoreUnder the Ice
WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara installs a new shroud over one of the maneuvering thrusters on the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) remotely operated vehicle. NUI is connected to pilots aboard a…
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WHOI researchers Fritz Fuglister, left, and Dana Densmore inspect a bathythermograph, or BT, prior to a research cruise in 1957. BTs measure temperature and depth while being dropped from or…
Read MoreSummer Science
In the depths of winter, it’s nice to remember when undergraduates from around the world come to Woods Hole for a summer of science by the sea. Students learn about…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Until the early 1980s, the 105-foot catamaran Lulu served as the support vessel for the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Here, engineers use a pedestal crane on the WHOI pier to conduct…
Read MoreHole in One
WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly and research assistant Richard Sullivan recently joined Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) geologist Pete van Hengstum and undergraduate student Tyler Winkler in collecting cores from Thatchpoint Bluehole. It…
Read MoreNorthern Lights
Work went on round-the-clock in the winter of 2011 during a 43-day cruise to the Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas. Bad weather, frigid temperatures, and nearly perpetual darkness can make moods…
Read MoreIceberg Station
WHOI engineer Brian Guest took this photo of icebergs at at Rothera Station, Antarctica in the summer of 2014. Guest was part of a team of scientists and technicians on…
Read MoreLine W: A 10-year portrait of our planet
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online January 1, 2015
Read MoreIselin at the Helm
Columbus O’Donnell Iselin served as WHOI’s second director from 1940 to 1950 and following founding director Henry Bigelow. Iselin was Bigelow’s student at Harvard and originally came to WHOI at the…
Read MoreA Device Named SID
In November 2014, researchers used Alvin to position and test a deep-sea instrument called Vent-SID for the first time at a hydrothermal vent site on the East Pacific Rise. It was the latest…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Early in his career, Harold “Doc” Edgerton (shown here working on the WHOI dock in 1959), built underwater cameras for famed marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Operating cameras in murky ocean…
Read MoreVehicle Inspection
WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya watched recently as she and her colleagues from the Oceanographic Systems Lab took a specialized Hull Inspection Vehicle for a test run off the WHOI dock…
Read MoreUnderside Peek
This global surface mooring was deployed in September 2014 in the Irminger Sea as part of the Global Arrays component of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative. The mooring is designed…
Read MoreA Touch of Ocean Life
WHOI post-docs Liz Harvey and Tristan Horner got up close with a giant green anemone (A. xanthogrammica) at the Seattle Aquarium, when they participated in an NSF-sponsored National Network for Ocean and…
Read MoreGrowing Crystals
Tom DeCarlo conducts experiments in the laboratory of WHOI geologist Glenn Gaetani to precipitate aragonite, the mineral that corals use to build their skeletons and construct coral reefs. DeCarlo, a…
Read MoreAnnual Gathering
A group of WHOI Summer Student Fellows gathered for a photo during the 2014 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco in December. Each of the students presented a…
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