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Home in the Cold
WHOI researchers called the edge of a Greenland glacier home for seven weeks during a 2008 expedition funded by the WHOI Arctic Research Initiative. Maya Bhatia and colleagues revealed in Nature […]
Read MoreUnderwater Lab
Scientist Konstantinos Kormas from the University of Thessaly, technician Ellen Roosen (foreground), and SSSG tech Allison Heater recover a Deep SID instrument during a Dive & Discover cruise in […]
Read MoreWork in Progress
Sean Kelly (left), Justin Fujii (foreground), and Hannah Baker performed a series of tests with the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry on the WHOI dock in February. Engineers […]
Read MoreClean Sweep
Tag, You’re It
WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore recently traveled to New Zealand to study the sperm whales off the coast of the Kaikoura Peninsula. The team […]
Read MoreAll Aboard
Postdoctoral scholar Liz Douglass (left) and chief scientist Ruth Curry recover a CTD rosette during a cruise aboard RV Knorr in the North Atlantic in 2011. The […]
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Lulu of a Test
Southbound Again
Synergistic Effects
Scientist Ellie Bors (left) and artist Laurie Kaplowitz stand in a gallery at the Museum of Science in Boston before a triptych of wall-length paintings they collaborated to create. The […]
Read MoreMeasure Twice, Cut Once
Joe Harvey carefully measures a large piece of syntactic foam before cutting it. The foam, which is made of tiny glass bubbles embedded in epoxy, provides buoyancy for the […]
Read MoreAll Hands
On April 10, 1963, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher was undergoing sea trials 200 miles east of Cape Cod when it sent a message indicating that it was experiencing […]
Read MoreProtist Pro
WHOI microbiologist Virginia Edgcomb works on the Submersible Incubation Device (SID), a robotic instrument designed to collect, incubate, and preserve samples of microbes in the ocean. Scientist Craig Taylor […]
Read MoreREMUS SharkCam: The Hunter and the Hunted
In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the […]
Read MoreEyes on Coral
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Elizabeth Drenkard examines skeletons grown by 3-week old corals in a culture experiment conducted at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Drenkard is working with […]
Read MoreChemical Reactions
Coastal ocean acidification occurs when excess carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by, flushed into or generated in coastal waters, setting off a chain of chemical reactions that lowers the […]
Read MoreBreak Time
Seals like this one photographed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment (SIPEX-II) in Antarctica, depend on sea ice to survive. They hunt for food, such as fish and […]
Read MoreA Perfect Coat
WHOI engineering assistant Ben Pietro puts the third and final coat of paint on the “sail” of Alvin, the country’s only deep-diving human occupied vehicle. When it is […]
Read MoreFour Generations
For the past 35 years, the responsibility of scheduling the comings and goings of WHOI’s research vessels has fallen to four intrepid people (from left): Eric Benway, Liz Caporelli, […]
Read MoreAnd Check the Oil
In February, mechanics Monir Garcia (left) and Allen Bell (right) from Hawthorne Caterpillar came to Woods Hole to complete a major overhaul of R/V Atlantis‘s engines. The ship’s engines […]
Read MoreCoral Integrity
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Thomas DeCarlo removes a sub-sample of seawater for analysis during a calcium carbonate precipitation experiment in Glenn Gaetani’s laboratory. Thomas is growing a particular form […]
Read MoreRiver in the Ocean
Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Robert Laird directs the launching of a CTD rosette aboard R/V Atlantis in 2012 during a cruise led by Patricia Yager […]
Read MoreArt and Science
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Jill McDermott processes samples from hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Cayman Rise on the Caribbean seafloor during an expedition in 2012. Discovered in 2009, […]
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