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In Search of Tricho, Pt. 2
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the research vessel R/V Oceanus undertake a cruise to study health and function of plankton in the western North Atlantic. Part 2…
Read MoreIn Search of Tricho, Pt. 1
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the research vessel R/V Oceanus undertake a cruise to study health and function of plankton in the western North Atlantic. Part 1…
Read MoreRevisiting Titanic
A film crew interviewed David Gallo, WHOI’s Director of Special Projects, on Dyers Dock in October 2011 for a documentary about the RMS Titanic. Gallo served as co-expedition leader on…
Read MoreGlacier’s End
Heading into the summer sun, scientist Fiamma Straneo reviews data collected in Sermilik Fjord, Greenland, in August 2010. Straneo’s work there aims to understand the mechanisms controlling the flow of…
Read MorePlugging In
Divers aboard the R/V Connecticut prepare to jump in the waters off South Beach on Martha’s Vineyard on October 1, 2011. Their mission: to plug a profiler into the underwater…
Read MoreSea Butterflies Take Flight
New York sculptor Cornelia Kavanagh and WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson are collaborating on a series of sculptures that highlight the fragile state of the pteropod, one of many ocean creatures…
Read MoreWell Done, Atlantis
Best known as the support ship for the submersible Alvin, R/V Atlantis (shown here entering New York Harbor soon after its delivery to WHOI in 1997) recently provided a much…
Read MoreIn Search of Tricho, Pt. 3
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the research vessel R/V Oceanus undertake a cruise to study health and function of plankton in the western North Atlantic. The final…
Read MoreDive & Discover Begins Today!
Set sail on Dive and Discover to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, today to Dec. 9! WHOI biologists Ginny Edgcomb and Joan Bernhard lead an international team of researchers aboard R/V…
Read MoreAll Thumbs
Falmouth High School held its annual “Career Day” on November 16. High school students interested in careers in oceanography visited WHOI’s Deep Submergence Lab (DSL), where Mario Fernandez taught them…
Read MoreSibling Ships
The 274-foot R/V Atlantis (left) and 177-foot R/V Oceanus dock at the WHOI pier in November 2005. A similar sight greeted retired WHOI Capt. Larry Bearse when he first reported…
Read MoreA Coat of Many Bacteria
Dozens of oval bacteria coat the membrane of this microorganism, known as a protist, collected from the sulfidic, anoxic Cariaco Basin off the coast of Venezuela. This pairing is probably…
Read MoreGiving Thanks
On a rainy day in October, Capt. Diego Mello brought R/V Oceanus home on its next-to-last science mission before the ship was retired by the National Science Foundation. Capt. Mello…
Read MoreInto the Ice
At a time of year when people are more likely to think about avoiding cold weather, WHOI’s Carin Ashjian is headed north of the Arctic Circle aboard the U.S. Coast…
Read MoreP-U-S-H!
A manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason inserts a push core into seafloor sediment off the coast of Monterey, Calif. WHOI geobiologist Joan Bernhard collected the samples…
Read MoreCopepods in the Dark
WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian studies how climate change is affecting the Arctic ecosystem, especially the abundant ocean zooplankton and including tiny crustaceans called copepods. The copepods pictured here (genus Metridia)…
Read MoreA Summer of Oceanography
WHOI 2011 Summer Student Fellows Thomas DeCarlo (left, University of San Diego) and Max Kaplan (University of St. Andrews) deploy a sediment sampling instrument called a Van Veen Grab Sampler…
Read MoreIn Shackleton’s Footsteps
WHOI Senior Scientist Susan Humphris, Board of Trustees Chairman Newt Merrill and Director Susan K. Avery (left to right) followed in the footsteps of British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton…
Read MoreFinal Crew
The crew of R/V Oceanus gathered on the WHOI dock after returning from the ship’s final cruise. Pictured, front row (left to right): Christopher Armanetti, Able Seaman; Diego Mello, Captain; Sacha…
Read MoreThe Little Ship that Could
On November 11, 2011, R/V Oceanus returned to the WHOI dock after its final research cruise. The ship is owned by the National Science Foundation and was operated by WHOI…
Read MoreEavesdropping on Whales
Researchers at WHOI are getting a better understanding of marine mammals by attaching noninvasive digital tags to the animals. Here a D-tag3 was successfully attached to a long-finned pilot whale…
Read MoreMission to the Bottom of the Sea
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason gives researchers eyes and hands in the ocean depths, allowing them to see, photograph, and collect samples miles below the surface. Join us November…
Read MoreDo We Have a Quorum?
During a presentation to the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellows in September, WHOI biogeochemist Tracy Mincer described how chemical “conversations” among bacteria affect carbon cycling in the ocean. The image on…
Read MoreSummer Seagoing Science
The Summer Student Fellowship Program brings undergraduates to WHOI to work with scientists in a lab and try out oceanographic research. During their time on campus the students take a…
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