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Raking Them In
Dr. Geir Huse, of the Norway-based Institute of Marine Research, collected fish brought aboard the Norwegian research ship G.O. Sars while a crew member looked on. Huse used the […]
Read MoreBeacon Hill Comes to WHOI
Massachusetts House speaker Robert DeLeo (center) gets a primer on the REMUS 6000 from principal engineer Mike Purcell (right), while Jim Rakowski, director of state government and […]
Read MoreAgainst the Odds
Northern Moorings
In September 2013, WHOI scientist Bob Pickart and colleagues traveled to to the Arctic aboard the Norwegian ship Lance to study ocean circulation in the far north. The […]
Read MoreHigh-Pressure Work
Research associate Sean Sylva (left) and marine chemist Jeff Seewald carefully release highly pressurized fluid from an isobaric gas-tight sampler (IGT). The IGT was developed at WHOI to […]
Read MoreInner Space
On a visit to WHOI in June to deliver his one-of-a-kind submersible, DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, film director and explorer James Cameron (center) had a chance to climb inside the newly […]
Read MoreFollow the Whales
A sperm whale surfaces above the deep Kaikoura Canyon off the East Coast of New Zealand. WHOI biologist Michael Moore, director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center, and […]
Read MoreAll in a Day’s Work
A team of scientists and technicians enjoy the sun and sea ice at the end of a long day of coring in the Beaufort Sea aboard the U.S. Coast Guard […]
Read MoreLeading with CTDs
Oliver Zafiriou (left, holding rope) and crew of R/V Oceanus launch a water sampler on an October 1991 cruise. The shipboard instrument, known as a CTD […]
Read MoreTipping the Scales
WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz holds a single haddock scale collected in the 1930s, one of millions of fish scales filed at the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center in […]
Read MoreReaching Out, From Sea
Author Dallas Murphy (left) and WHOI post-doc Benjamin Harden confer on the bridge of R/V Lance recently about the day’s outreach activities during a cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Murphy […]
Read MoreA Healthy Mystery
Lush, diverse, healthy coral reefs in Palau are living where they shouldn’t be—under lower-than-normal pH levels that are equal to what the ocean is projected to have by the end […]
Read MoreHelp From a Friend
In Terre Adélie, Antarctica, WHOI biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier holds a five-month-old emperor penguin chick in preparation to tag it. Tagging young birds, coupled with a long-term study of this […]
Read MoreReady to Dive and Discover
Hydrothermal vents are famous for chimneys that belch hot, mineral-laden water from deep beneath the ocean floor. Not all the fluid at vent sites flows so dramatically, though. Some […]
Read MoreMud Pie, Anyone?
Konstantinos Kormas (left) from the University of Thessaly and Colin Morrison, an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Reno, collect sediment scooped from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea by […]
Read MorePiering into the Future
Up in the Air
A video plankton recorder (VPR) is hoisted aboard R/V New Horizon before an August 2012 cruise led by WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson. The VPR is a system that […]
Read MoreDangerous Beauty
Carbon Cycle in Action
Summer Student Fellow Jen Reeve (left) and WHOI marine chemist Amanda Spivak collect sediment samples from an experiment in Spivak’s flow-through seawater system (the white tanks behind them). […]
Read MoreThe Ocean’s Hidden Predators: Revealed
Marine biologist Greg Skomal and engineer Amy Kukulya discuss the importance of sharks in the ecosystem, the threats they are under, and how new technology–the SharkCam, is helping researchers learn […]
Read MoreAUV Sentry
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry is a capable of reaching a depth of 6000 meters and carries a wide range of scientific samplers and sensors . Its shape and […]
Read MoreLife, Smoke, and Fire Underwater
Wednesday, December 4, is opening night for Global Viewport to Deep-Sea Vents, a collaborative exhibit created by WHOI and the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford. Visitors will learn about the […]
Read MoreBack from Below
One Cell, Many Rooms
What look like grapes or bubbles are actually chambers of a single-celled foraminiferan (or foram). Almost 1mm in diameter, the foram is large enough to see with the naked eye. […]
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