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Ready to Roll
Whit, a guide dog who works with oceanographer Britt Raubenheimer, keeps an eye on oceanographer Steve Elgar from the seat of a WHOI jet ski. Elgar took this […]
Read MoreA Capable Tool
The REMUS 6000, developed at WHOI to map the ocean floor, is probably best known for locating the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 in 2011, two years […]
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong Christening
Carol Armstrong, ship’s sponsor for the Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) research vessel (R/V) Neil Armstrong (AGOR 27), breaks a bottle across the bow during a christening ceremony at Dakota Creek Industries, […]
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Moving an Island
WHOI Research Assistant Richard Sullivan holds one of 50 aeolian (wind-driven) sediment traps deployed on Santa Rosa Island in Florida to study the process by which a barrier island is over-topped and “drowns” […]
Read MoreHROV Nereus
Look under a virtual ocean to see how researchers use Nereus. First, as a free-swimming, or autonomous underwater vehicle, Nereus surveys and maps broad areas of the seafloor. Then it […]
Read MoreNereus in the Challenger Deep
HROV Nereus samples the Challenger Deep seafloor.
Date: May 31, 2009
Depth: 10,006 meters (6.2 miles)
Originally published online May 31, 2009
Read MoreLaying the Foundation
Janet Fields, postdoctoral coordinator for WHOI’s Academic Programs Office (APO), staffed an informational booth at the 2014 Ocean Sciences meeting in Honolulu in February. APO staff attended the meeting […]
Read MoreNot So Simple
Wear it Proudly
The R/V Neil Armstrong took another step closer to becoming part of the WHOI fleet recently when it had the Insitution’s logo attached to its stack. The ship was […]
Read MoreA Drop in the Ocean
WHOI research assistant Steve Pike adds a uranium-233 “spike” to a sample of seawater from the Pacific Ocean that he will measure for the presence of uranium-236. By adding a […]
Read MoreI Can See Clearly Now
In the Hot Seat
Summer Student Fellow Ashley Grey investigates a coral’s response to rising ocean temperatures while working in the lab of WHOI scientist Anne Cohen. During the summer of […]
Read MoreReturn to Sender
Between 1956 and 1972 WHOI oceanographer Dean Bumpus dispatched nearly 300,000 messages in bottles, asking people to notify him where and when they found them. To encourage a response, […]
Read MoreHomeward Bound
In its four decades of operation, R/V Knorr has traveled more than a million miles, from the Galapagos Islands in the equatorial Pacific, to the frigid North Atlantic and many […]
Read MoreCommunities at Risk
The shore of Buzzards Bay just north of Woods Hole illustrates at least one of the problems that many coastal communities will face in the future as sea level […]
Read MoreLittle Alvin
To keep busy after he retired, professional deep-sea diver Tom Ryder (center) launched into a three-year project to build a 1/8-scale, fully operational, radio-controlled model of Alvin. When Alvin […]
Read MoreNew and Improved
Beginning in 2011, the submersible Alvin underwent an extensive upgrade to incorporate new technology and features. Today, it includes a larger personnel sphere to improve comfort and usability […]
Read MoreA Cold, Hard Look
Air temperatures in the teens and icy seas were no match for WHOI postdoctoral researcher Mike Lowe (right) and graduate student Alex Bergan during a two-day research cruise on R/V […]
Read MorePlaying in the Cold
Despite an icy New England winter, research continued this winter off the Atlantic coast using the research vessel Tioga. WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson and colleagues spent two chilly days […]
Read MoreAnyone Home?
Mud and Monsoons
Marine geologists Takuya Sagawa, left, of Kyushu University, and WHOI’s Liviu Goisan examine sediments cores extracted from the seafloor on an expedition in the Sea of Japan and […]
Read MoreAnton Dohrn
After arriving at WHOI in 1940, the research vessel Anton Dohrn made at least 40 cruises from Maine to New Jersey, testing bathythermographs, underwater cameras, and other newly-designed instruments. Scientists also used […]
Read MoreNext Stop: Gulf of Mexico
After a three-year major overhaul and upgrade, the submersible Alvin was in the water in November for 14 recertification dives off the coast of California. The upgrade included […]
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