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Now Hear This
As part of a research efffort to find out if, and how, squid hear, biologist T. Aran Mooney sets a squid into a tank where its neural reactions […]
Read MoreKrill Hunters
WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (green shirt) and summer student fellow Jon Fincke reach to recover the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR), a towed underwater microscope that collects images […]
Read MoreBalls on a Wire
Oceanographers learn about the temperature, salinity, and movement of water deep below the surface by setting sophisticated instruments on mooring lines that reach from the seafloor to a […]
Read MoreBuoy Overboard
WHOI mooring technicians and engineers prepare to deploy a surface buoy in the Gulf Stream in November 2005. The buoy was anchored to the seafloor and outfitted with instruments […]
Read MoreAlvin by the Bay
Rick Chandler (left), submersible engineer and operations group administrator, shows a mock-up of the renovated Alvin personnel sphere to a visitor at the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) […]
Read MoreThe Tales That Rocks Can Tell
Research associate Kathryn Rose conducts studies using the ion microprobe at WHOI, which measures precisely very small amounts of isotopes in rocks and other samples, revealing hidden […]
Read MoreWhich Came First, the Chicken or the Shark?
Shark egg cases, sometimes called “Mermaids’ purses,” can wash up on beaches, dried and stiff. Researchers found this one at the bottom of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. In May […]
Read MoreA Delicate Balance
Ringed seals, like the one pictured here, are the smallest and most common seals found in the Arctic. Their diets consist mainly of shrimp, krill and other small crustaceans and […]
Read MoreGone Fishing
With his colleagues Jim Irish (in blue jacket) and Dezhang Chu (at right), WHOI scientist Tim Stanton adapted a low-frequency commercial sonar system, originally designed to survey seafloor geology, to […]
Read MoreGreen Glow of Life
Unwanted Harvest
Low tide reveals gobs of the alga Ulva hanging from a sampling station on the Skagit tidal flats north of Seattle. In 2009 a team of researchers led by WHOI […]
Read MoreThe Dynamic Duo
The manned submersible Alvin (left) made headlines during its recent Dive and Discover mission in the Gulf of Mexico, but the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry (right) is what […]
Read MoreReady for a Rest
Jerry Dean (foreground) and colleague carry a Vector Averaging Current Meter that had just been recovered from the Sargasso Sea, where it was attached to a mooring line as part […]
Read MoreProfiling Plankton
WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (foreground) and colleagues from the University of Rhode Island prepare to deploy the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) during a September 2010 expedition to […]
Read MoreGo South, Young Woman
Research at WHOI isn’t focused exclusively on the ocean. In 2007, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Andrea Burke got the chance to travel to Antarctica. She joined an Read More
Danube Delta Cores
Did a flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out nearby Neolithic settlements? “We don’t see evidence for a catastrophic flood as […]
Read MoreIcy Communications
WHOI engineer Peter Koski from the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department sets up a remote recording station on a small ice floe in the Fram Strait, between Greenland […]
Read MoreFinding HABs with ESP
Research associate Bruce Keafer inspects a new instrument known as the environmental sample processor (ESP) in the lab run by WHOI senior scientist Don Anderson. The robotic […]
Read MoreA Line in the Ocean
While the Tide is Out
Researchers take advantage of low tide to carry an instrument tower across the Skagit tidal flats north of Seattle in the summer of 2009. The team, which was led by […]
Read MoreLooking Ahead to 2011
Happy New Year from everyone at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.(Photo by Rick Galat, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreTracking Warm Water Up North
Greenlander Arqaluk Jørgensen and WHOI researchers Fiamma Straneo (middle) and Dave Sutherland (right) prepare for a day trip into Sermilik Fjord in East Greenland in 2008. They found subtropical […]
Read MoreAn Inside Job
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution possesses the only imaging facility in the world entirely dedicated to marine research: the Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility (CSI), led by biologist Darlene Ketten. […]
Read MoreHome After a Long Day?s Work
The research vessel Tioga returns home to Woods Hole in September 2010 after a day of research in Buzzards Bay. Scientists on the vessel spent the day collecting […]
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