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Love that Dirty Water
Meltwater carrying finely ground glacial till is visible from the air as researchers prepare to deploy instruments into a West Greeenland fjord by helicopter. WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo […]
Read MoreStronger Than it Looks
Postdoctoral investigator Maria Pachiadaki (left) and Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Allison Heater deploy Deep-SID, a sampling robot, during a cruise to the Mediterranean in 2011 aboard […]
Read MorePorteous and Vetlesen Awardees
Diana Franks and Dave Kulis, recipients of the 2013 WHOI Linda Morse-Porteous and Vetlesen award recipients, respectively. The Linda Morse-Porteous award has been given since 1991 to recognize a […]
Read MoreWinch Work
Researchers monitor the deployment of a SeaCycler, part of a Global Subsurface Hybrid Profiler Mooring installed at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific in the summer of 2013. The […]
Read MoreCore Knowledge
Interns Chris Eustis and Brecia Douglas from Northeastern University help organize sediment core samples collected from all over the world. WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group collects and analyzes these cores […]
Read MoreMining Marine Microbes for New Drugs
Gliding into the Future
A snow petrel floats over ice and water in Antarctica. With the southernmost breeding range of any bird on Earth, snow petrels are superbly adapted to their extreme environment. But […]
Read MoreAll Hands
Technicians aboard the research vessel Melville deploy a wire-following profiler as part of a Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The […]
Read MoreEye Spy
Blue Planet, Blue Carbon
Alterra Sanchez, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from San Diego State University, readies an optical cell for making pH measurements in a high-precision spectrophotometer. The cell contains a pH […]
Read MoreHigh Performers
At the annual Employee Recognition Celebration, the 2013 Penzance Award was given to the staff of the WHOI Library and Archives. Since 1989, the award has been given to […]
Read MoreShow-and-Tell
WHOI engineer Anthony Tarantino explains the design and operation of the Human Occupied Vehicle DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to visitors during a recent WHOI public event, Deep Ocean Exploration: Trenches. […]
Read MoreSimon Thorrold
By Simon R. Thorrold :: Originally published online October 18, 2013
Read MoreA Quest For Resilient Reefs
White Sharks, Gray Seals
2013 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows and WHOI staff members pause for a photo following an afternoon of seal watching aboard the Monomoy Island Ferry. During the trip, biologists […]
Read MoreKayak Cruise Control
A yellow “JetYak” cruises close to West Greenland’s Sarqardliup Glacier while keeping researchers out of harm’s way of its calving icebergs. WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh developed this autonomous surface […]
Read MoreGo-to Guy
Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (right) helps deploy a sediment trap from the fantail of research vessel Knorr in 2012. Ossolinski is the 2013 recipient of the Ryan C. Schrawder […]
Read MoreSeafloor Samples
Summer Student Fellow Benjamin Urann (left) and his mentor, geologist Henry Dick, examine slabs cut from igneous rocks collected during a cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge aboard research […]
Read MoreUnderstanding the Warming Arctic
Tag, You’re It
Remove Before Flight
A deep-sea submersible may not have keys, but it does have one very important piece of equipment that needs to be accounted for before every dive: a pin that holds […]
Read MoreKeep it Clean
Benjamin Birner, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from Jacobs University in Bremen, at work in the Clark Clean Lab on WHOI’s Quissett campus. “Clean labs” are designed to prevent […]
Read MoreGlistening Glaciers
On the way to the high Arctic to study how the polar ocean circulates, the crew aboard the Norwegian research vessel Lance took in this scenic sight—the glacial tongues of […]
Read MoreA Drop in the Ocean
Viewed from outer space, Earth has been called the Blue Planet. But if you could pull all the water in the ocean, the atmosphere, groundwater and surface water […]
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