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Surrounded by Work
It’s been 18 months since engineers took Alvin apart, a major undertaking involving submersible pilots Dave Walter (center) and Bruce Strickrott (right) as well as a host of WHOI engineers and…
Read MoreMaking an Impact
The MIT-WHOI Broader Impacts Group (BIG) hosted it’s inaugural event on June 19th at the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center. Invited guests included individuals from WHOI and other Woods Hole…
Read MoreDenizens of the Deep
WHOI microbial ecologist Virginia Edgcomb collected the organisms shown here in 2009 from the top of a deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake on the Mediterranean seafloor. The bright blue color comes…
Read MoreIn Their Own World
During an early-winter expedition to the Arctic led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Carin Ashjian, investigators used a video plankton recorder (VPR) to study tiny animal plankton in the…
Read MoreUnder Pressure
WHOI engineers Griff Outlaw (front) and Brian Durante monitor a gauge while pressure testing syntactic foam to be used in the improved research submersible Alvin. The foam, which will provide buoyancy for…
Read MoreHands-on Lessons
Jesse McNichol (left) and Emily Moburg retrieve a rosette sampler to the deck of R/V Tioga during a recent cruise in Buzzards Bay. The two first-year MIT/WHOI Joint Program students…
Read MoreThe View from Greenland
A team of researchers that includes MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Ben Linhoff, approached Leverett Glacier on the southwestern edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Linhoff and his colleagues are…
Read MoreNew and Improved
Nearly 18 months after Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution engineers Dave Walter (left) and Bruce Strickrott took the deep sea submersible Alvin apart, they are now beginning to put it back…
Read MoreTaking Apart Brown Tide Algae
In the summer, a single-celled marine algae species often causes “brown tides” in estuaries along the U.S. East Coast, killing seagrass, decimating shellfish, and costing local economies millions of dollars.…
Read MoreA Lost Glory, Found
An underwater camera and lighting system devised by WHOI scientist Dan Fornari recently revealed part of the long-lost Pink Terraces near the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, New Zealand. The Pink…
Read MoreBreaking the Ice
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy plows a path through ice in the Beaufort Sea. Evidence of Earth’s changing climate is especially visible in the Arctic, making it an important area…
Read MoreAnnual Phytoplankton Blooms in the North Atlantic
An animation based on a three-dimensional model simulation reveals the processes underlying the annual spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic. This model simulation by Amala Mahadevan (WHOI) is based…
Read MoreA Serendipitous Seafloor Sample
Roughing It, Greenland Style
Until early August, this is Ben Linhoff’s home in Greenland. Linhoff is a second-year graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program and is spending his second summer studying Leverett Glacier…
Read MoreBy the Siphonophore’s Red Glare
Happy Independence Day from WHOI and Athorybia rosacea, a siphonophore collected on a Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise off the U.S. East Coast. (Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreWhy is the Beach Closed?
Let Construction Begin
With the completion of a new personnel sphere, the submersible Alvin is on the way to becoming a stronger, roomier, and more capable research submersible. After two years of design, construction,…
Read MoreTwin Sisters
Despite some differences in appearance, these are actually sister ships. R/V Wecoma (left) and R/V Oceanus are both operated by Oregon State University on behalf of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory…
Read MoreGovernor Patrick Visits WHOI
Last Fall, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited WHOI for the first time, touring several labs and learning about the Institution’s robotic vehicle development and ocean observing programs. Here WHOI Associate Scientist…
Read MorePower-hitting Microbiologist
Summer brings catching chemists, fielding physicists, and batting biologists—like Louie Wurch (here), to McKee Field at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to play in the long-running WHOI softball league. Since 2007,…
Read MoreOn a Clear Day
Technician Scott Hiller tends to a buoy in the Bering Sea during a 2009 Polar Discovery expedition. Buoys sit atop a long chain of instruments that monitor ocean conditions, and…
Read MorePacific Highway
An international scientific team led by WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler completed a research cruise in June 2011 to assess the levels and dispersion of radioactive substances from the Fukushima…
Read MoreRebuilding Alvin
The Original Alvin
A new titanium personnel sphere for the submersible Alvin passed pressure tests last week and is scheduled to arrive tomorrow in Woods Hole, where the newest incarnation of Alvin will…
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