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A tale of two schooners
Following a 1902 collision off the Massachusetts coast, the coal schooners Frank A. Palmer and the Louise B. Crary now exist as one intertwined wreck, captured by here side-scan sonar in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Read MoreOcean Encounters: Seabirds
Seabirds are uniquely adapted to life at sea—and uniquely vulnerable to its perils. Many spend the majority of their decades-long lives far from shore, flying thousands of miles over open water to find food, returning to land only to mate and raise their young.
Read MoreCamp Harbor View Whale Watch
In August, WHOI participated in a whale watching trip for 85 Leaders-in-Training, ages 15 to 17, from Camp Harbor View, an organization that provides unique experiences for underserved youth in […]
Read MoreThe Ocean in Her Life
Ella Ruth Goodman, age 4, went on her first whale watch this summer in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and discovered another world beneath the waves. Her […]
Read MoreFeeding Frenzy
WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore, along with John Durban of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center and colleagues, ventured out into […]
Read MoreEndangered Species Day 2015
May 15 is Endangered Species Day. In 2010, a team that included experts from WHOI placed non-invasive DTAGs on one of the largest endangered species, and one that frequents the […]
Read MorePlaying tag
To learn more about what whales do when they dive beneath the surface, scientists use a digital acoustic recording tag, or D-tag. The small device, designed and developed at […]
Read MoreUp Close and Personal
WHOI researchers had a close encounter with this humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)during an expedition on Stellwagen Bank, off the coast of Massachusetts. Biologists have been tagging humpbacks and […]
Read MoreFlowers of the Deep
Anemones cover a rock roughly 80 meters (250 feet) beneath the water line on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. The photo was taken […]
Read MoreFlipping out
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breached while WHOI researchers were working to tag whales near Stellwagen Bank. No one knows for sure why whales breach the water surface; some researchers […]
Read MoreFeeding Time
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) takes a gulp of water and fish, while tiny sandlances jump out of its mouth. The sandlance, commonly known as a “sand eel,” is a […]
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