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Robots to the Rescue

Victoria Preston talks about the ChemYak, an autonomous surface vehicle in an Oceanus feature. “When we think about the power of putting instruments on robotic machines that can place those instruments optimally, it’s so different than the oceanography of just a few decades ago,” says Preston, who is now a postdoctoral investigator at the Woods…

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MIT senior Sylas Horowitz has been developing a high-performance, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that can collect water samples from beneath a sheet of Arctic ice

Sylas Horowitz helped to build and retrofit a Blue ROV to be used in the Canadian High Arctic by the Chemical Sensors Lab. In this feature article, Horowitz says, “I want to relate mechanical engineering to sustainability and environmental justice,” they say. “Engineers need to think about how technology fits into the greater societal context…

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5 WHOI women making waves in ocean science and engineering

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is home to a diverse team of scientists, engineers, students, communicators and investigators. In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are shining a spotlight on a few women featured in the last several months, who have made a difference in the fields of science and discovery.

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Sargassum serendipity

To help track the harmful algae bloom, Pixa, along with WHOI engineer Kevin Manganini and advisor, Associate Scientist and Chief Scientist for Deep Submergence Anna Michel, designed a drifter to float with sargassum on ocean currents. 

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Live from hydrothermal vents in the Guaymas Basin

Watch video from a ROV Jason and AUV Sentry expedition on the Scripps-operated R/V Roger Ravelle to the Guaymas Basin the Gulf of California. This trip was lead by Chief Scientist for Deep Submergence Anna Michel and included scientists from Harvard University, Michigan State University, and the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Mexico.

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Sniffing out methane in the deep sea

On a recent cruise to Guaymas Basin, sensors developed by the Chemical Sensors Lab were used to detect methane in the deep sea. “We’re developing this as a tool for exploration,” says Anna Michel, chief scientist for WHOI’s National Deep Submergence Facility and the expedition. “There are a lot of places where methane is being released in…

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