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Spinal Signs
Marine biologist and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Li Ling Hamady displays a vertebra of a white shark. The large, white, circular portion is the body of the vertebra and the…
Read MoreITP Recovery: Getting it back out of the ice
ITP Deployment: Getting an instrument through Arctic ice
A Glittering Find
A chimney sample from a hydrothermal vent, collected on a January 2014 research expedition, shows deposits of glittering yellow iron sulfide, or pyrite. Also known as “fool’s gold,” the mineral…
Read MoreA Sphere With a View
Jefferson Grau, an Alvin pilot-in-training (or PIT), peers through the front viewport of the newly upgraded sub during his first dive. He assisted WHOI engineer Lane Abrams and Pilot Mike…
Read MoreFraser River: Running Free
WHOI researchers and students travel the length of the river, taking samples along the way. (Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Christopher Linder :: Originally published online June 1, 2011…
Read MoreSpecial Delivery
The South African icebreaker SA Aghulhas II performs a dual role as both a research and a logistics vessel. WHOI chemist Phoebe Lam got a close-up look at the ship…
Read MorePumping Out Antibiotics
Infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria cause 23,000 deaths a year in the U.S. alone. One defense mechanism used by bacteria are called efflux pumps. Positioned in bacterial membranes, these pumps…
Read MoreWelcome DEEPSEA CHALLENGER (part 3): Susan Avery
WHOI’s President & Director officially welcomes the sub and James Cameron and describes the importance of deep-sea exploration. Originally published online June 14, 2013
Read MoreWelcome DEEPSEA CHALLENGER (part 1): Rob Munier
WHOI’s Vice President of Marine Operations welcomes the crowd and James Cameron. Originally published online June 14, 2013
Read MoreWelcome DEEPSEA CHALLENGER (part 2): Dave Gallo
WHOI’s Director of Special Projects describes his role in bringing the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to the Institution. Originally published online June 14, 2013
Read MoreWelcome DEEPSEA CHALLENGER (part 5): Q&A
James Cameron takes questions from the audience about his sub and what it took to reach the deepest spot in the ocean. Originally published online June 14, 2013
Read MoreWelcome DEEPSEA CHALLENGER (part 4): James Cameron
James Cameron addresses the audience about the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER and why he thinks WHOI is the perfect home for it. Originally published online June 14, 2013
Read MoreAlbatross Farewell
Well-wishers gathered on the WHOI dock in 1952 to bid farewell to the 179-foot research vessel Albatross III, which made 128 science cruises in the North Atlantic. After serving as a…
Read MoreAlmost Home
Peter Leonard, chief mate on the research vessel Atlantis, aided in a late-day recovery of the submersible Alvin during one of 14 certification dives in November near the coast of…
Read MoreCritical Detail
In 2012, a pair of autonomous gliders, each equipped with a MicroRider instrument package, were deployed during the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) cruise. The expedition…
Read MoreListening to the Tide Roll In
It might look like it just washed ashore, but this instrumented frame is fixed in place on Nova Scotia’s mega-tidal Bay of Fundy for a month at a time to…
Read MoreFirst Time in the Water
The next ship in the UNOLS fleet to be operated by WHOI, the R/V Neil Armstrong, was launched on Saturday, February 22, at the Dakota Creek Industries shipyard in Anacortes,…
Read MoreIn the Basket
To many scientists, one of the most important features on the submersible Alvin is the sub’s sample basket, the stage on the front of the sub that holds instruments being…
Read MoreA Dramatic Demonstration
Intense international focus came to WHOI—and director John Steele—in 1985 after a team of WHOI researchers and French oceanographers discovered the wreck of the Titanic, which sank in 1912 in the North Atlantic.…
Read MoreTitanic Homecoming
Crowds of family members, WHOI staff, and other wellwishers—including hundreds of journalists and 18 film crews—thronged the pier at WHOI in September 1985, as the research vessel Knorr returned from…
Read MoreTaking Flight
Adelie and chinstrap penguins “porpoise” through the water of the Southern Ocean near South Thule Island. Penguins and other animals are uniquely adapted to life in the harsh conditions of…
Read MoreThe Mesocosm Lab
By Daniel Cojanu, Elise Hugus :: Originally published online February 20, 2014
Read MoreResearch Relics
WHOI archivist David Sherman holds a bottle like one of the more than 200,000 deployed between 1956 and 1972 to track ocean currents in the North Atlantic. One such bottle,…
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