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(Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Hugh Powell, Jack Cook :: Originally published online March 30, 2007
Read MoreBeneath Shark Skin
This fall, a fisherman in California caught this four foot-long great white shark and brought it to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where it died a short time later. The six…
Read MoreElegant Anemone
The half-inch-long starlet anemone, Nematostella vectensis, is a relative of reef-building corals. It lives in salt marshes along the east coast from Canada to Georgia, is easy to grow in…
Read MoreHigh Wire Work
Electrician Paul Roy, a contractor for WHOI, works via a basket suspended on a crane to adjust a search light mounted on the forward mast of the research vessel Knorr.…
Read MoreA Promising Career
Drew Smith, a junior at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, is spending the fall semester with the Alvin group at WHOI working on several electrical components used on the submersible during…
Read MoreCan We Keep It?
WHOI/MIT Joint Program student Alec Bogdanoff (holding line) and Pete Liarikos, bosun on research vessel Knorr, tested a glider named “Boomer” (after a character from the television show Battlestar Galactica) during…
Read MoreBird’s Eye View
This aerial photo of Woods Hole village shows the two large WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis, left, and Knorr, right, at the WHOI dock overlooking Great Harbor. Many improvements have been…
Read MoreSeal Sightings
People come from miles away to see the seals off the shores of Cape Cod, but the animals are creating some challenges for local fishermen. Increasing seal populations led to…
Read MorePteropod Hunters
More than 1,000 miles off the coast of Oregon, members of a month-long expedition helped secure a CTD rosette on deck of the research vessel New Horizon. Researchers analyzed the…
Read MoreGiving Thanks
At sea, traditions that speak of home and loved ones take on greater meaning. In 1952, Capt. John Pike carved a Thanksgiving turkey in the wardroom aboard R/V Atlantis during…
Read MoreA Very Rare Moment
For the first time in recent memory, WHOI’s two large research vessels, Knorr and Atlantis, sit side-by-side during a scheduled maintenance period in Detyen’s Shipyard in Charleston, S.C. During dry dock periods, which…
Read MoreGetting Warmer
Whitney Bernstein, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, samples water from a coral reef in the Red Sea in December 2010. Corals worldwide are subjected to rising water…
Read MoreNew Species from the Deep
Last January, WHOI scientist Chris German led an international research expedition to the Caribbean aboard R/V Atlantis to explore hydrothermal vent sites on the Mid-Cayman Rise, which were first seen…
Read MorePlanes, Trains and Snowmobiles
WHOI oceanographer Fiamma Straneo, along with ten colleagues from WHOI and abroad, called the 130-foot research vessel Fox home during a two week expedition in September off the coast of…
Read MoreThe View from Below
A camera mounted on a rosette sampler captured this unusual view of the starboard A-frame of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy from the water of the Beaufort Sea north of…
Read MoreSafe Passage
Icebergs were a common sight around the British icebreaker James Clark Ross during a 30-day summer research cruise along Greenland’s east coast to the high-Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The expedtion, led…
Read MoreLight Touch
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus normally operates in one of two modes: with a fiberoptic tether that allows technicians to control the vehicle from the surface, or as…
Read MoreBi-coastal Battering
While Hurricane Sandy was lashing the East Coast, a low-pressure system was making life difficult for the scientists and crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy. The team was…
Read MoreCurtains of Light
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, danced across the night sky during a recent expedition by physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo to southeastern Greenland. Straneo and her colleagues were there to…
Read MoreAnother Day in Paradise
Scientists and crew enjoyed the sunset near Woleai Atoll in Micronesia, several hundred miles south of Guam, during the last week of October. Researchers from WHOI, the University of Hawai’i,…
Read MoreAn Unusual Coffee Table
On an expedition off the Galápagos Islands in 2010, scientists used a dredge attached to a cable to collect samples of volcanic rocks from the seafloor. When the dredge returned to…
Read MoreAmy Bower Receives Award
In October 2011 the Center for Vision Loss, an agency serving visually impaired people of eastern Pennsylvania, awarded their first-ever “Chrysalis Award” to WHOI scientist Amy Bower. The award ,…
Read MoreNo Vacation
Just because it’s known as a research “cruise” doesn’t mean life is easy for the scientists, engineers and students on board. During a recent, month-long expedition on R/V Knorr, MIT/WHOI…
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