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Alvin‘s Basket
When the submersible Alvin ascends from a day’s work at the seafloor, its payload basket in front is usually filled with samples of mud, rocks, or organisms collected by pilots…
Read MoreFragile Corals
As part of an ongoing collaboration, students from the Perkins School for the Blind visited the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center to learn about ocean acidification and its impacts on…
Read MoreOcean Current Detour
The ocean’s global circulation transports heat around the planet, from the equator to the poles, thus regulating Earth’s climate. Two major cogs in this planetary system are the Gulf Stream-North…
Read MoreEndless Sunrise
Doctoral candidate Melissa Patrician captured this stunning sunrise over the Southern Ocean at 1:47 a.m. in late November 2011. With nearly 24 hours of sunlight aboard the R/V Laurence M.…
Read MoreLeaping Polar Bears!
WHOI researcher Chris Linder photographed this polar bear during an expedition in the summer of 2007. Later that year, a research team including WHOI scientist Hal Caswell concluded that melting…
Read MoreOne More Mooring
Brian Hogue (left) and Ben Pietro deploy a moored profiler from R/V Atlantis during a 2010 cruise to Line W led by WHOI physical oceanographer John Toole. Moored profilers travel up…
Read MoreGetting Alvin Ready to Dive
Narrated by Jefferson Grau, Alvin pilot-in-training, this video shows the daily dance to deploy Alvin into the ocean.
Read MoreAn Omen of the Ocean
For scientists who spent seven weeks aboard the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem eXperiment (SIPEX-2) expedition to the Southern Ocean in 2012, this black-browed albatross was a welcome sign of…
Read MoreOrigin of Species?
Mounted to the front of ROV Jason, these isobaric gas-tight (IGT) samplers are ready to be deployed for sampling a hydrothermal vent in the Mid-Cayman Rise. In an unprecedented project co-funded…
Read MoreDeep-sea Clams
Aboard the research vessel Atlantis, Peter Girguis and Jennifer Delaney of Harvard University extract the viscera of deep-sea clams collected from the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico by the…
Read MoreTeam Microbe
Like humans, corals are home to millions of microbes such as bacteria and algae. Here, “Team Microbe” members Matthew Neave (WHOI and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Amy Apprill (WHOI),…
Read MoreFrom Ice to Eire
In 2011 WHOI researchers working from Russia’s Ice Camp Barneo and using a Russian helicopter installed an Ice-Tethered Profiler, ITP-47, in thick ice near the North Pole. Beneath the yellow…
Read MoreOcean Oddity
This isn’t something you see every day. On a recent expedition in the Gulf of Mexico aboard the research vessel Atlantis, Bosun Patrick Hennessy spotted this curious sight off the stern:…
Read MoreWorld Penguin Day
A trio of Emperor penguins playfully slides into Antarctic water. These iconic birds are threatened by ecosystem shifts, including the melting of sea ice—a solemn reminder of climate change on this World Penguin…
Read MoreSound Check
Mike Jech (left) of NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole and WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson prepare to calibrate an acoustic towed body in Providence Harbor in January 2014.…
Read MoreOn Thin Ice
Emperor penguins are the only Antarctic birds that exclusively breed and raise their young on sea ice, a fact that could bring about their extinction as glaciers continue to melt,…
Read MoreHappy Earth Day
We call it Earth, but our home planet is nearly covered by water. The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, while another 10 percent is locked in…
Read MoreFirst in Flight
A pair of osprey settle into their new digs at WHOI’s Quissett Campus during the second week of April. A welcome sign of spring to humans who endured the harsh winter,…
Read MoreOn the Hunt
WHOI marine chemistry and geochemistry department’s Bryan James scrapes oil off a rock on a Gulf Coast beach in 2013. The oil sample is one of about a thousand collected…
Read MoreThree-Eyes
The research sub Alvin recently completed an “extreme makeover” that included a more spacious personnel sphere and more, larger viewports. The rebuilt sub now boasts three front viewports that allow…
Read MoreLassoing Alvin
Two crew members of the research vessel Atlantis, Ordinary Seaman Ronnie Whims, left, and Able-Bodied Seaman Patrick Neumann, acted as “swimmers,” assisting the recovery of the submersible Alvin after its…
Read MoreStudying the Arctic remotely
By Christopher Linder :: Originally published online March 6, 2014
Read MoreDrug Discovery in the Ocean
By Amanda Kowalski, Ari Daniel :: Originally published online April 27, 2014
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