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From the Archives
An Easter Island moai casts its gaze on a visitor, the research vessel Knorr anchored off the port of Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, in the early 1990s. The ship that found…
Read MoreStorms in Mud
Dan Chamberlain, a visiting student from Northeastern University working in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, examines a coastal pond sediment core that he split in half to expose layers of mud and…
Read MoreCarbon on the Move
Carbon makes the world go around. It is the building block of life on Earth, and in the form of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, it has a powerful…
Read MoreListening to Bongos
WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian enjoys a sunny moment on deck of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy with her bongo nets. During the Arctic Spring expedition to the Chukchi Sea this…
Read MoreClass Field Trip
Students from a course entitled “Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming” offered by Woods Hole Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension hiked out to the tidal flats to tour a shellfish aquaculture operation…
Read MoreClose-up
In September 2013 WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler traveled with a group of Japanese colleagues to the northeastern coast of Japan within one kilometer (one-half mile) of the damaged nuclear…
Read MoreIce Breaker
WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak and guest student Kelsey Gosselin had to clear ice from a frozen pond in Rowley, Mass., last month to get access to the water and mud…
Read MoreThe Jetyak
It Takes a Crew
On December 5, WHOI commemorated the career of the research vessel Knorr, which will be retired from the U.S. oceanographic fleet this month. During the event, the ship’s current captain, Kent…
Read MoreCore Principle
You’re looking down the barrel of the Long Core on the starboard rail of the research vessel Knorr. This one-of-a-kind instrument was developed at WHOI to extract plugs of sediment…
Read MoreDeep Maggie
A WHOI-MISO Towed Digital Camera frame containing a deep-towed magnetometer system— otherwise known as the TowCam “Deep Maggie”— takes a breather on the WHOI dock in August before being loaded…
Read MoreChimney Sweep
This bucket of recovered samples included slices of hydrothermal vent chimneys brought up from the undersea East Pacific Rise (EPR) by the remotely operated vehicle Jason. Chimneys are formed when chemical-rich…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Biologist Alfred Redfield in his lab, circa 1955. Redfield joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931 and was Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. His broad marine research…
Read MoreEarly Ocean Arrival
Earth is sometimes known as the Blue Planet for the fact that the global ocean covers more than 70 percent of its surface. Until recently, however, scientists didn’t know when…
Read MoreQuick Release
Kris Newhall rigs a quick-release hook used by the crane aboard R/V Knorr to lift the surface buoy of a global surface mooring over the side. The mooring was deployed…
Read MoreTuning In To SharkCam
WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya steadies the REMUS SharkCam in in a test tank while acoustics engineer Keenan Ball monitors sensor and propulsion noise. Just weeks after the SharkCam made a…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
For many people, a mid-life reassessment may prompt the loss of a few pounds or inches. For R/V Knorr, entering mid-life meant adding on—34 feet, to be exact. After several months…
Read MoreDirect Line to the Seafloor
WHOI researchers Jim Broda, left, and Al Gagnon wave to well-wishers as the research vessel Knorr departed in October on one of the final cruises of its 44-year career. The…
Read MoreReady to Jump Ship
Profiler moorings aboard the R/V Knorr await deployment to the Pioneer Array, a part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Located along the interface between coastal waters and the Atlantic Ocean,…
Read MoreFirst View
ROV Jason gave scientists their first live look at a Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basin (DHAB) on November 29, 2011. At left is normal seafloor, at right is the DHAB, and…
Read MoreJason, Deconstructed
The remotely operated vehicle Jason (left), which also includes its partner vehicle Medea (right), is a relatively uncommon sight around Woods Hole because the system is in such high demand.…
Read MoreThe Old Ways
On a recent cruise on board the University of Washington’s R/V Thomas G. Thompson, WHOI research associate Marshall Swartz and crewmembers Brian Clampitt and Paul Benecki (left to right) worked…
Read MoreMore Than A Mooring
Group Operations Leader John Kemp uses a hook to recover a top float mooring in September 2014 in the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean. In the 12th year of the Beaufort…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Fresh from the shipyard, R/V Knorr transited the Cape Cod Canal in 1970 on its way to Woods Hole for the first time. Since arriving, Knorr has sailed roughly 1.3 million miles, carrying…
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