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Emperor Penguins and Climate Change
By Cherie Winner :: Originally published online August 12, 2014
Read MoreEmperor Penguins & Climate Change
At nearly four feet tall, the emperor penguin is Antarctica’s largest sea bird—and one of the continent’s most iconic animals. Unlike other sea birds, emperor penguins breed and raise […]
Read MoreDynamite Recovery
Jeff Pietro, Scott Worrilow, Chief Scientist Ruth Curry, and an R/V Atlantic Explorer crew member (left to right) recover a mooring line to the fantail of the ship […]
Read MoreUp the River
Sylvia Cole, a postdoctoral investigator in the Physical Oceanography Department, deploys a temperature sensor in Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass., as an instructor in the Woods Hole Partnership […]
Read MoreCore Question
WHOI scientist Anne Cohen and Summer Student Fellow Chris Kelly study the core of a coral taken in Palau, a coral reef archipelago located in the far western […]
Read MoreCollect the Dots
Hydrothermal vents three miles down support a variety of life based on chemical energy. This image from a 2012 expedition to the Mid-Cayman Rise led by geochemist Read More
A Changing Ocean
In early August, WHOI marine chemist Sarah Cooley spoke at a public event on ocean acidification, which she calls “a side effect of industrialization.” As the atmospheric […]
Read MoreWorking Under Ice
Eyes in the Deep
Norman Vine, Jonathan Howland, Hugh Popenoe (left to right), and Scott Gallager (not pictured) use a test tank in Gallager’s lab at WHOI’s Environmental Systems Laboratory in May to calibrate […]
Read MoreQuick Hands, Light Work
WHOI biologist Amy Maas uses a quick, steady hand to pick out zooplankton called pteropods from a sloshing tray aboard a moving ship, not an easy task as they […]
Read MoreCorals in a Warming Ocean
Reef-building corals contain algae cells in their tissues that nourish them and give them their distinctive color. High water temperatures cause corals to release their algae and lose their color, […]
Read MoreSynchronized Floating
Instructor Joe Mokry (left) of Ocean Rescue Systems International teaches students in a boat safety course at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution strategies for staying alive should they ever have […]
Read MoreHands-on Climate
Participants at a WHOI-sponsored event on ocean acidification in August examined the skeleton of a two-week-old coral grown by MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Liz Drenkard (right) for her […]
Read MoreThe Ocean’s Acid Test
In early August, WHOI marine biogeochemist Scott Doney spoke at a public event on ocean acidification, a problem arising from the burning of fossil fuels and the […]
Read MoreFurry Walls
In January 2012, an international research group aboard R/V Atlantis completed an expedition to study the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents, at the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean. The […]
Read MoreUpriver Gang
Every other month since March, students and researchers lead by WHOI marine geochemist Bernhard Peuker-Ehrenbrink have taken water and sediment samples from four rivers in southern Massachusetts and Rhode […]
Read MoreRATS Ready for Duty
WHOI marine chemists Fred Sayles (left) and Bill Martin have spent the last several years designing and developing a water-measuring device they call RATS, for Robotic Analyzer for the […]
Read MoreIn the Wake of a Disaster
Ready, Aim, Sip
During an “Oasis” cruise to the Mid-Cayman Rise in January 2012, the manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle Jason placed the intake tube of an isobaric […]
Read MoreGentle Giant
In June, WHOI postdoctoral student Kelton McMahon and colleagues attached tags to nine giant oceanic manta rays in the Phoenix Islands during a month-long research trip to observe […]
Read MoreTracking Ocean Toxins
From the deck of the Coastal Ocean Institute vessel Calanus, Linda Amaral-Zettler of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Erik Zettler of the Sea Education Association prepare to deploy an automated water sampler in Nauset Marsh. […]
Read MoreBringing them Home
WHOI mooring operations specialist Jim Ryder secures a surface buoy to the deck of RV Knorr during a cruise to recover instruments deployed in October 2011 as part of the […]
Read MoreMiracles of Flight
Albatrosses captivated scientist Philip Richardson during his physical oceanography career at WHOI, where he watched the large seabirds soar near the decks of traveling research vessels. After he retired in […]
Read MoreRock On!
A person uses a piece of wood to strike a lithophone, an instrument made of solid stone by Native Americans between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago. When struck, the lithophone […]
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