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The Hidden Lives of Microbes
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Jamie Becker sets up incubation experiments aboard the R/V Melville during a research cruise to the South Pacific in the fall of 2010. Becker served as…
Read MoreA Veteran of the High Seas
In 1975, the newly constructed hull of R/V Oceanus first entered the water at Peterson Builders shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. During its 36-year career, Oceanus criss-crossed the Atlantic helping…
Read MoreEarly Warning Instrument
In July 2011 off the coast of New Hampshire WHOI senior engineering assistant Will Ostrom signaled the crane operator while recovering an ESP (Environmental Sample Processor) on the R/V Connecticut.…
Read MoreProbing the Deep
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason, named for the heroic sailor of Greek mythology, enables researchers to explore the ocean miles below the surface. A tether connecting the smaller vehicle…
Read MoreLive, Half a World Away and One Mile Down
WHOI Biologist Tim Shank and lab members gather around live images of deep corals in Indonesia during the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2010 INDEX-SATAL expedition. Shank, lead scientist for…
Read MoreView from the Top
Each summer, graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program are welcomed to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and to oceanography with the ten-day Jake Peirson Summer Cruise aboard the Sea…
Read MoreBack to School
WHOI’s Hovey Clifford (center) showed Melissa Simpson and Oniika Davis Peters from BP how to use a Niskin bottle to take water samples beneath the ocean surface recently. In September,…
Read MoreNearing the End
WHOI researcher Bruce Keafer demonstrated the procedure for filtering water samples for Alexandrium fundyense before a cruise on the R/V Oceanus in 2008. In New England waters, A. fundyense is…
Read MoreInto the Dark and Ice
By Kate Madin :: Originally published online November 4, 2011
Read MoreColorful Chemical Composition
This chromatogram paints a colorful chemical landscape of the oil that leaked from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Each peak represents one of thousands…
Read MoreGiving Marine Life a Ghost of a Chance
During a recent trip to the Mediterranean to study the social ecology of long-finned pilot whales and their reaction to the sound of predators, members of the MED-11 Alboran Sea…
Read MoreA Pioneering Deployment
This Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) surface mooring was recently deployed in the future vicinity of the Pioneer Array. Its design represents the type of instruments that will eventually be used…
Read MoreProtists, Protists Everywhere
WHOI microbiologist Virginia Edgcomb examines a protist-rich pool at the edge of Shark Bay, Australia. Protists are the single-celled progenitors of all multicellular forms of life, including plants, fungi, and…
Read MoreStep on a Crack . . .
What seems like an optical illusion is actually a sign of how dangerous working on coastal sea ice can be. WHOI senior scientist Al Plueddemann and engineering technician Amy Kukulya…
Read More1956: WHOI’s Next Chapter
In 1956 Columbus Iselin (right) signed on for a second tour of duty as WHOI’s director, succeeding Edward Smith (left). Iselin came to WHOI to captain the first R/V Atlantis and…
Read MoreHigh Tech in the Commonwealth
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (second from right) made his first visit to WHOI on Oct. 12, touring the facilities and learning about some of the instruments and vehicles that have…
Read MoreOcean Institutes “Technology in Ocean Science” Expo
Breaking the Ice
In October, scientists and crew aboard the US Coast Guard ice breaker Healy in the Beaufort Sea encountered strong winds that blew thick pieces of multi-year sea ice into their…
Read MoreFarewell to the Workhorse of the North Atlantic
In November 1975, R/V Oceanus first arrived at the WHOI dock to begin a long and illustrious career of oceanographic research. A mid-life refit completed in 1994 greatly changed the…
Read MoreMulti-tasking in Ocean Research
The Sea Cycler winch, being deployed from the R/V Oceanus, is the largest component of the Global Hybrid Profiler and will eventually be included as part of the Ocean Observatories…
Read MoreSampling Sediments
Joan Bernhard, a geobiologist in WHOI’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, prepares a sediment sample for analysis. Bernhard studies protists (also called protozoa) that live on and in the seafloor.…
Read MoreRestless Glacier
Helheim Glacier, one of Greenland’s largest, empties into the ocean on the southeast coast of the island. The glacier has been retreating over the past decade, and WHOI physical oceanographer…
Read MorePlaying Tag with Marine Mammals
The digital acoustic recording tag (DTAG) was developed to monitor the behavior of marine mammals and their response to sound throughout the dive cycle. As with any piece of oceanographic equipment,…
Read MoreAlvin: Good Enough to Eat
When University of Florida Prof. Mike Perfit and Renee Kattell recently held a party in Gainesville, Fla., to commemorate their wedding earlier in the summer, DSV Alvin made an appearance…
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