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On the Road in Barbados
WHOI research assistant Mary Lardie holds an information card while geochronologist William Thompson takes a photo of a large fossil coral during the 2009 Geodynamics Field Trip to Barbados. Each…
Read MoreA Visit to the Knorr
In August 2011 WHOI hosted the governing board of the National Research Council, one of four organizations that comprise the United States National Academies. The visit included a tour of…
Read MoreProbing for Protists
Virginia Edgcomb, a microbial ecologist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI, will be Chief Scientist on the next Dive and Discover cruise, which heads into the Mediterranean…
Read MoreNereus, Ready for Its Close-Up
Videographer Evan Kovacs films the hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus as it descends from the sea surface. Nereus is called a “hybrid” ROV because it can operate either tethered…
Read MoreICESCAPE Walk
US Coast Guard rescue swimmers and polar bear sentinels from the USCGC Healy stand by as scientists measure sea ice properties during NASA’s 2011 ICESCAPE cruise in the Chukchi and…
Read MoreTaking the Measure of Irene
Post-doctoral scholar Andrea Hawkes (foreground) and Summer Student Fellow Leah Fine prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in August by surveying a section of beach along Surf Drive in…
Read MoreOcean Acidification in a Cup
Abby Heithoff (right), a recent MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate and recipient of the 2011 Pantaleyev Award, talks with visitors at the Woods Hole Climate Fair about ocean acidification. The fair,…
Read MoreFishing for Microfauna
Ian Smith (left) and WHOI Corporator Barbara Wu (right) help associate scientist Mark Baumgartner deploy a video plankton recorder (VPR) from the fantail of R/V Tioga. Baumgartner and assistant scientist…
Read MoreFleet at Rest
Fishing boats tied up at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in June 2009 await their next trip to sea. A recent Morss Colloquium titled “Does it matter where we get our seafood?”…
Read MoreSearching for Life in All the Odd Places
Joan Bernhard, a geobiologist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI, prepares a sample of seafloor sediment for analysis. Bernhard studies the single-celled eukaryotic organisms (protists) that live…
Read MoreSentry Finds New Coral in the Gulf
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry is recovered to NOAA vessel McArthur II during a cruise to the Gulf of Mexico in May 2011. The goal of the cruise was…
Read MoreAll Together
Students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography join Sea Education Association assistant scientist Roman Shor (second from right) raise a sail on SEA’s research vessel Corwith Cramer. The students…
Read MorePutting a Top on it
David Labranch (left) and Neil Lozey from Rose Steel, Inc., add the final beam to WHOI’s new LOSOS (Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems) building recently during the traditional…
Read MoreThe Core of the Matter
Elizabeth Halliday, a student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, attaches a winch collar to a coring tube so the tube can be pulled out of the sand. Each…
Read MoreSentinels of the South
Though Cape Royds, Antarctica, may seem like a harsh place, it actually provides a fairly comfortable existence for animals like these penguins. It has high ground, plenty of pebbles with…
Read MoreAgainst the Wall
Kelton McMahon, a postdoctoral investigator in WHOI’s Fish Ecology Laboratory and a graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, observes the fish living on a coral reef. McMahon has…
Read MoreDr. Livingston, I Presume?
Summer Student Fellow Leah Fine recently found herself deeply immersed in preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in Cape Cod. The Amherst College student delayed her return to school…
Read MoreSummer of Science
Bigelow Laboratory and Dyer’s Dock are shown in the upper left portion of this historical photo of Woods Hole, as ferry to Martha’s Vineyard is pulling into the terminus of…
Read MorePrimal Crust
Cyanobacteria and other microbiota produce thick mats that bind sedimentary particles and can form stromatolites such as these crusting a pool in Shark Bay, Australia. Because they include hard components…
Read MoreMaking Things Shipshape
Able Seaman Susan Coleman makes repairs to R/V Knorr while out at sea. She was participating in the DynAMITE (Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment) cruise led by…
Read MoreSentinel in the Sea
Often it’s the smallest creatures that tell us about the largest climate issues. Summer Student Fellow Max Kaplan, visiting from St. Andrew’s in Scotland, turned to the recently hatched longfin…
Read MoreScoping Out Corals and Climate Change
WHOI scientist Pat Lohmann removes a core drilled from a living coral during a recent field expedition to Palau, a remote coral reef archipelago in the far western Pacific. The…
Read MoreGoing Fishing
Amy Kukulya releases a REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) into the water over the shelfbreak north of Cape Hatteras. The WHOI engineer was part of a cruise in August…
Read MoreJoin ROV Jason on a Mediterranean Mission
The remotely operated vehicle Jason, seen here being recovered after a mission, was designed and built by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI to give scientists access to the seafloor…
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