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Protected Predator
A dogtooth tuna cruises above corals in the world’s second-largest marine reserve, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), which protects two interconnected ecosystems—the reefs around eight remote uninhabited coral […]
Read MoreThank You Volunteers
WHOI runs a volunteer program with some 85 active volunteers who help out in the Ocean Science Exhibit Center, Information Office, Data Library & Archives, science labs, […]
Read MoreGetting Colder
William Melvin from Cornell University wades into the mouth of the Trunk River in Falmouth to set the anchor for a set of temperature sensors to measure the temperature gradient […]
Read MoreMoonrise Over Greenland
The moon rises over the Denmark Strait and Greenland’s east coast during an October 2008 expedition onboard the research vessel Knorr. Led by WHOI scientist Robert Pickart, […]
Read MoreGifts from the Deep
Researchers searched for signs of deep-sea eruptions in the rocks they collected during a spring cruise to hydrothermal vent sites along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Older rocks look dull, while […]
Read MoreIncoming
In July, six WHOI scientists and engineers traveled to Southwest Greenland to do something never tried before with an underwater vehicle: take an up-close look at the underwater “plumbing system” […]
Read MoreTrapping Falling Sediment
WHOI engineer Scott Worrilow guides a yellow sediment trap onto R/V Oceanus along with (clockwise from bottom left) WHOI engineer Brian Hogue, seaman Leo Fitz, and […]
Read MoreFarewell to Summer
No, this isn’t a preview of winter to come. This is a beautiful summer day—in Antarctica, where WHOI glaciologist Sarah Das, MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Ali […]
Read MoreTent for One
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,” wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott […]
Read MoreDeep-sea Detectives
Only 85 To Go
WHOI shipboard technician Dave Sims signals to the winch operator as Courtney Schatzman from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Sarah Brody of Duke University stand by to recover a […]
Read MoreNew Building to be Dedicated
Two years after groundbreaking, WHOI’s newest laboratory building will be officially dedicated September 20, 2012. The Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems (LOSOS) was funded through the Read More
Making a Splash
Cold Bath
In July, a group of WHOI scientists and engineers led by Fiamma Straneo and Sarah Das deployed a REMUS 100 “ICEBOT” in Saqqarliup fjord in Southwest Greenland. […]
Read MoreHot Mud
WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (center) holds two vials of ocean sediment collected from the Pacific seafloor 50 miles from the damaged Japanese nuclear power plant, Fukushima Dai-ichi. In June […]
Read MoreFirst of Many Pieces
On August 17, 2012, senior officials from WHOI joined the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) at a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the newest ocean research […]
Read MoreQuick Fix
Engineer Kyle Covert, who works on the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr, made modifications to a rock dredge during a month-long cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge this spring. Dredges act […]
Read MoreReady to Go
Smooth Sailing
In August 2012, the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy sailed through unusually light sea ice across Hanna Shoal in the norhtern Chukchi Sea. The cruise was the first […]
Read MoreTasting Salt
WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni inspected one of several wave gliders on the deck of R/V Knorr recently. These three will be deployed later this month during the NASA-sponsored Read More
Refitting a Stalwart
In 1989, the 20-year-old WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr went through maintenance and upgrades at a shipyard in Amelie, Louisiana. During the refit (shown here), the vessel was cut in half […]
Read MoreTarget Practice
At sea, technicians and crew have to be ready for anything—from fixing broken scientific instruments to keeping the science party and other mariners safe under any circumstances. Here, […]
Read MoreA Titanic Task
William Lange (right), director of the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory at WHOI, Dave Conlin (center), chief of the National Parks Service’s Submerged Resources Center, and James Delgado […]
Read MoreIf Found
In the second of two cruises to study the movement of dense water flowing through the Denmark Strait, WHOI oceanographer Bob Pickart returned to the East Greenland coast this […]
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