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Atlantis II in Monaco
In 1963, WHOI’s research ship Atlantis II stopped over in Monaco on its way to the Suez Canal and a research cruise in the Indian Ocean. The second of three…
Read MoreDon’t Make Me Get Up
A lounging elephant seal casts a wary, but sleepy, eye on a group of researchers on Torgersen Island, Antarctica. The scientific team, which included WHOI scientist emeritus Peter Wiebe and…
Read MoreA Newfound Cog in the Ocean Conveyor
Grendel’s Lair
In the fall of 2011, the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr sailed past the Faroe Islands east of Iceland, an ideal home for Beowolf’s nemesis. The team on board, led by…
Read MoreTitanic in a New Light
Water Day, Every Day
March 22 is World Water Day. In reality, it is hard to imagine a day on Earth without water. Water is the substance most associated with life on our planet.…
Read MoreSunrise, Sunset, or Noon?
“High” noon in the Arctic in winter looks a lot like sunset or sunrise. In November 2011, WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian led colleagues on the first-ever winter research cruise to…
Read MoreA Shard of Evidence
Karin Lemkau searches for oil—but not in the usual places. In 2007, a container ship, the M/V Cosco Busan, struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled tens of thousands…
Read MoreFlounder, Drawn by a Giant
Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967) helped establish the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was WHOI’s first director, from 1930 to 1940. One of the giants of U.S. oceanography, Bigelow’s interests spanned…
Read MoreUp Close With Plankton
Why study lifeless krill, copepods, and other tiny Arctic organisms under a microscope when you can see them live and in action in their native environment? During an early winter…
Read MoreThe Telltale Clue
Soon after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, pieces of a mysterious white substance was found bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico. The material was hard, porous, and uniformly embedded…
Read MoreMarine Microbes vs. Cystic Fibrosis
Technician Kristen Rathjen displays flasks of microbial cultures that are part of a project in Tracy Mincer’s lab to generate potential treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF). As they grow, marine…
Read MoreStudent Driver
Chris Morgan, chief engineer on the research vessel Atlantis, manipulated the remotely operated vehicle Jason at the bottom of the western Caribbean Sea recently while being guided by members of the…
Read MoreAlvin Takes Flight
In February 1966, Alvin was loaded onto a transport plane at Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Mass., for a flight to Spain. On January 17 of that year, a…
Read MoreSee You at Sea
It’s rare to see WHOI’s two Global Class research vessels, R/V Knorr and Atlantis, in port at the same time. Rarer still to see them leave together on the same…
Read MoreWatch Your Step!
Ice-covered stairs makes for a tricky ascent—and a necessary detour—aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy on a 2011 cruise to the Western Arctic Shelfbreak. The temperature this far north can…
Read MoreThe Art of Marine Science
Falmouth High School ceramics art teacher Corine Adams set up student pieces created in the art course Clay II for display at WHOI recently. The students were assigned to create…
Read MoreHarmless Harpooning
In 2011, scientists employed the services of a professional harpoonist, Capt. Bill Chaprales, aboard the fishing vessel Ezyduzit out of Sandwich, Mass., to tag basking sharks with a device that…
Read MoreAll Stop
Communication is critical at sea. Here, a crew member from the U.S. Coast Guard iceabreaker Healy signals a winch operator to stop lowering at CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) rosette to…
Read MoreDance the Arctic Blues Away
During long research cruises, particularly when bad weather keeps people indoors for periods, ship and science crews organize “morale events” to raise spirits and help keep the group working as…
Read MoreWhale of a Shark
Two whale sharks feeding with jacks in the Red Sea in May 2010. Whale sharks (Rincodon typus) are rare but widely distributed throughout the world’s tropical oceans. Despite their distribution,…
Read MoreDisaster on the Ground
Chen and Beardsley also used FVCOM to make finely detailed reconstructions of how the tsunami swept ashore in some locations. This simulation shows the series of waves hitting and flooding…
Read MoreShark Secrets
To help devise effective strategies that protect endangered sharks, scientists need basic information about where elusive species live, mate, and give birth. MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Li Ling Hamady…
Read MoreWater Flowing Undersea
Concealed from view, the bottom of the ocean is covered with of mountains and canyons as steep and deep as the Grand Canyon. Scientists have had indications that powerful ocean…
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