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Watch Your Step
WHOI researcher Paul Henderson and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Meagan Gonneea pump water from holes that extend a meter or more into a rock outcrop beneath the subtidal […]
Read MoreKings of the Cold
At nearly four feet tall, the Emperor penguin is Antarctica’s largest sea bird—and thanks to films like “March of the Penguins” and “Happy Feet,” it’s also one of the […]
Read MoreJump!
A successful day of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operations in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica was reason to celebrate during the fall 2012 Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem […]
Read MoreX Marks the Spot
WHOI scientist Matt Charette and Carolina Ruiz Fernandez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico use a GPS device to determine the precise location of a cenote, or natural […]
Read MoreLet the Sun Shine In
WHOI biologist Sam Laney studies the daily lives of single-celled plants in the ocean known as phytoplankton. The organisms carry out photosynthesis within specialized organelles called chloroplasts, […]
Read MoreStre-e-e-etch
Oceanographic moorings sometimes include a surface buoy connected by chain or cable to instruments below. In rough weather, rapidly changing tension on the chain causes noise that can interfere […]
Read MoreSandy of the Past
Zach Stromer, an undergraduate intern from Northeastern University working in Jeff Donnelly’s Coastal Systems Group, worked on a sediment core recently that Donnelly and his team collected immediately after […]
Read MoreAn Undersea Waterfall
Greenland-Scotland Ridge looms like a great undersea dam, stretching from East Greenland to Iceland and the Faroe Islands and across to Scotland. Warm, salty Gulf Stream waters flow over it […]
Read MoreSubterranean Sampling
Matt Charette, Meagan Gonneea, and Crystal Breier collect and test samples of groundwater in a cave on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The instrument behind Charette’s arm measures […]
Read MoreA Sea Far, Far Away
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate students Alice Alpert (left) and Liz Drenkard (center), and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service representative Kelsie Ernsberger (right), snorkel above a large coral […]
Read MoreKnock, Knock
Underwater hydrophones in the busy Bering Sea record a cacophony of sounds, including “knocks” from walruses. Carter Esch, a MIT/WHOI Joint Program student in the Biology Department, utilizes […]
Read MoreLive From Indonesia
A computer monitor in the lab of deep-sea biologist Tim Shank displays images and live video from the INDEX 2010 expedition. The mission to explore the depths and […]
Read MoreHigh Wire Act
Steve Faluotico of WHOI’s Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department cleans a sensor on the meteorological mast on R/V Knorr during the September 2012 SPURS cruise to study how […]
Read MoreTracking the Flow
WHOI scientist Matt Charette and his students travel around the world studying groundwater flow to the ocean from various types of aquifers. Here, he checks the salinity of […]
Read MoreKeeping Alvin Afloat
Squid Scan
WHOI biologist Aran Mooney and Dr. Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, a postdoctoral scientist at the NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest regional office, examined a Humboldt squid before scanning its sensory structures […]
Read MoreA Day at the Office
In October 2012, crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard ice breaker Healy deployed a small boat to recover a mooring from the Beaufort Sea. The mooring was […]
Read MoreTab A into Slot B
Coral Reconnaissance
Paul Henderson, a researcher in WHOI’s Coastal Groundwater Geochemistry Lab, snorkels near the Yucatan Peninsula to look for large corals for a study of groundwater flow. Because the […]
Read MoreThe Better to See With
WHOI technician Jefferson Grau inspects a new Alvin viewport (window) to make sure it doesn’t contain bubbles or inclusions such as bits of dirt, which could cause the […]
Read MoreMarine Microbes
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito prepares to drill through six feet of ice to take a water sample during 2009 fieldwork in Antarctica that he later analyzed for dissolved metals. Saito […]
Read MoreDoing It Right
Senior welder Geoffrey Ekblaw welds a seam on a titanium main junction box for the new Alvin. The human-occupied research submersible is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade, including a […]
Read MoreA Hull of a REMUS
Sounds of the Sound
Aran Mooney looks out across gray Nantucket Sound towards a tower built to monitor meteorological conditions where the company Cape Wind plans to install energy-generating wind turbines. WHOI […]
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