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Ready to Dive
In 2009, when WHOI Senior Scientist Chris German wanted to look for some of the deepest black smoker chimineys and hydrothermal vents on Earth, he turned to the hybrid remotely operated…
Read MoreInside a Whale’s Head
Scientists have long known that dolphins and other toothed whales, which use echolocation to find prey, have specialized fats associated with their jaw that help convey sound waves from the…
Read MoreAll Rock
From an isolated camp (yellow tents, at right), WHOI scientists Mark Kurz (left), Adam Soule, and Andrea Burke explored how the waterless, lifeless, volcanic terrain of Antarctica formed and evolved.…
Read MoreGreen Tea
A culture flask containing marine microorganisms could be the source of new treatments for cystic fibrosis, thanks to work recently begun by WHOI microbiologist Tracy Mincer and the Flatley Discovery…
Read MoreWritten in Stone
After cutting samples of basalt rock dredged from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for scientific analyses, geochemist Cedric Hamelin from the University of Bergen in Norway used some leftovers to create an homage…
Read MoreCurrency of Life
Researchers aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent recover a mooring during a 2008 expedition to measure levels of carbon in the Arctic Ocean. The resulting study…
Read MoreShifting Sands Shuffle Cells
Does sand moving on the beach carry bacteria with it? To find out, WHOI scientists Rebecca Gast, Britt Raubenheimer, and Steve Elgar cored three sections of a beach at Duck,…
Read MoreScientific Daredevils
Tracking and measuring currents has always been a focus of ocean science. Early oceanographers needed stamina and agility at sea, as well as a bit of recklessness. Here, Edmond Watson…
Read MoreCarousel of Carbon
Round and round goes carbon around our planet. At the same time, figuratively, carbon makes the world go ’round. The element is the building block of life on Earth and,…
Read MoreSensing Trouble
The storm clouds looming behind the first environmental sample processor (ESP) as it arrived at the WHOI dock in June of 2011 spelled trouble. At sea, the instrument samples seawater,…
Read MoreArt in Ocean Science
When sculptor Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh showed photographs of her work to WHOI biological oceanographer Gareth Lawson, the scientist immediately recognized her subject as pteropods. Thus was born a unique collaboration…
Read MoreMeeting of the Minds
WHOI’s Board and Corporation have made significant contributions to the Institution’s work since its founding in 1930. New York estate and trust lawyer Lawrason Riggs Jr. (left) was treasurer the Marine…
Read MoreSampling the Gulf
Amanda Demopoulos (left) from the U.S. Geological Survey and Helen White from Haverford College remove push cores from one of the sample baskets attached to the front of the submersible…
Read MoreMission Control
Inside a dark room on the research vessel Atlantis, more than one dozen monitors display information from the remotely operated vehicle Jason, an unmanned robot working miles below the ship.…
Read MoreArmed and Ready to Sample
Members of the OASES 2012 expedition pose in front of ROV Jason, “armed” with isobaric gastight samplers. Frieder Klein, Sean Sylva, Jeff Seewald, Jill McDermott, and Eoghan Reeves (left to…
Read MoreOcean Fronts
Like the atmosphere, the ocean has fronts where masses of different temperature and salinity come together. Colder and/or saltier seawater is heavier than warmer, less salty water, and so it…
Read MoreReef as Refuge
Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study published by Woods…
Read MoreWater Water Everywhere
The summer sun never sets in the Arctic, but it did provide inspiring views for scientists working around-the-clock in the summer of 2002, during a month-long expedition in the Chukchi and…
Read MoreOcean Termites
Those exploring the wreck of the Titanic have found none of the elaborate woodwork that was the hallmark of the luxury liner’s grand staircase. Any wood that does remain is…
Read MoreAll the Water on Earth
Originally published online January 1, 2012
Read MoreA Fine Balance
WHOI postdoctoral researcher Katie Shamberger makes adjustments to VINDTA (Versatile INstrument for the Determination of Total inorganic carbon and titration Alkalinity) in the lab of associate scientist Dan McCorckle. By making…
Read MoreRed White Red, Restricted Ability Ahead
Under a full moon in May 2012, R/V Atlantis stopped in the North Atlantic to lower a rosette samper with a CTD sensor into the ocean as part of the…
Read MoreThe Original Titanic Map
Following the 1985 French-American expedition that discovered the wreck of Titanic, WHOI researchers William Lange, Elazar Uchupi, and Bob Ballard examined all the still and video images captured by deep-sea…
Read MoreTwo Leaders, One Boat
Two of WHOI’s original and most storied leaders teamed up to pull the Insitution’s pioneering original vessel Atlantis away from a Woods Hole dock. WHOI’s first director, Henry Bigelow, (at…
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