New instrument sheds light on bioluminescence: a WHOI engineer invents a device to measure a critical but elusive ocean phenomenon. From: Oceanus | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

On a 1995 research cruise in the Arabian Sea, WHOI Research Engineer Paul Fucile asked an innocent question, just to satisfy his curiosity. He had been watching a three-person Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) team use a deck-mounted winch and a steel wire to maneuver a half-ton, golf-cart-sized, $500,000 piece of equipment called the High Intake Defined EXcitation (HIDEX) photometer. It was monsoon season, the weather was rough, and the crew struggled to lower HIDEX safely over the side.

"What do you measure with that?" Fucile asked, not thinking that his query would launch ...

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