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Deep-sea Detectives
In 2010, WHOI scientists Adam Soule and Dan Lizarralde searched for evidence that magma from below the seafloor had penetrated up into the sediments of the Guaymas Basin in […]
Read MoreBongo Dip
Marine science technician Marshal Chaidez signals to a crewmate running a winch from a control room overlooking the fantail of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy to deploy a set […]
Read MoreAlvin Takes Shape
With the installation of Alvin‘s new personnel sphere onto its modified titanium frame, shown here being attached in November 2012, the country’s only deep-diving submersible began to regain […]
Read MoreCape to Cape
Groundwater: The River No One Sees
By Martin Burch :: Originally published online January 16, 2013
Read MoreThe B12 Claw
WHOI scientists recently discovered a previously unknown piece of metabolic machinery that allows algae to grow in the ocean. The cobalamin acquisition protein 1 (CBA1) grabs vitamin B12 […]
Read MoreReel It In
At the end of an Alvin dive, the deep-diving submersible needs some help returning to the deck of its support ship, R/V Atlantis. To get its 35,000 pounds out of […]
Read MoreNow You’re Cooking
WHOI scientists Adam Soule, Dan Lizarralde, and Jeff Seewald used a device developed by WHOI engineer Marshall Swartz to gather high-resolution images of seafloor organisms in the Gulf […]
Read MoreFramed
In September, WHOI took delivery of a very important piece of equipment: the frame for the redesigned and upgraded submersible Alvin. Shown here next to Alvin‘s support ship, R/V Atlantis, the frame […]
Read MoreHold the Cesium
After the earthquake and nuclear release in northeast Japan, many people have begun looking at foods like this tuna appetizer in a very different way. WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler […]
Read MoreStar on Ice
A brittle star clings to a thin stalk of coral amid chunks of ice on the Indonesian research vessel Beruna Jaya IV. It was collected during a 2010 […]
Read MoreShells of Their Former Cells
In July 2011, scientists studying the Arctic discovered a massive phytoplankton bloom under meter-thick ice, where they thought there wouldn’t be enough light for the plants to grow. WHOI […]
Read MoreSounding the Ocean
WHOI research engineer Fred Jaffre works on a miniaturized sonar board originally developed to measure currents in the ocean. Recently, biologist Gareth Lawson and a team that includes […]
Read MoreExploring the Gulf Stream
Scientists at WHOI have been exploring the Gulf Stream and its connections to global circulation and climate patterns for decades. Physical oceanographer Arthur “Rocky” Miller, shown here in 1960, […]
Read MoreFabulous Phaeodarians
Four phaeodarians display their intricate silica skeletons, each about 1 millimeter in diameter—easily visible to the naked eye. They are protists, unicellular organisms that are abundant in oceans worldwide, […]
Read MoreA Bite out of Biofilms
Water Everywhere?
In May 2012, WHOI convened a Morss Colloquium to examine the issue of Earth’s water cycle. Afterwards, a panel that included (left to right) Anthony Patt, International Institute […]
Read MoreTaking a Dip
In October 2012, WHOI research specialist Bob Nelson used a piece of super-clean Teflon netting to sample a sheen of oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The […]
Read MoreReef Indicator
The blackbacked butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus) often feeds on soft corals. During a trip to the Farasan Banks in the Saudi Arabian waters of the Red Sea in 2009, WHOI biologist […]
Read MoreSharp-eyed Snails
Planktonic snails called atlantid heteropods live in the open ocean far from the surface, the sea floor, and the shore. Their transparent shells reveal red V-shaped ovaries in one animal […]
Read MoreTangled Up in Fishing Gear
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online May 21, 2013
Read MoreReady for 2013
R/V Atlantis chief engineer Chris Morgan captured this rare shot of WHOI’s two large oceanographic research vessels freshly painted and ready to leave drydock at the end of 2012. […]
Read MoreTiny Pteropods
WHOI scientist Gareth Lawson recently led a research cruise in the Pacific to study sea butterflies, swimming snails whose scientific name, pteropod, means ‘wing foot’. This species, […]
Read MoreAcidification on the Horizon
WHOI cientists Scott Doney, Anne Cohen, and Sarah Cooley (left to right) participated in a panel discussion about ocean acidification in Redfield Auditorium in August 2012. […]
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