Multimedia Items
Life at Vents and Seeps
Back from the Deep
Researchers George Tupper and Ruth Curry pull in the High Resolution Profiler (HRP) after a mission in the western North Atlantic in 2011. When the HRP is put into the…
Read MoreSpying a pelican, briefly
A Peruvian pelican near Arica, Chile, just before the BiG RAPA cruise, headed by WHOI scientist Dan Repeta, left in November for work in the Chilean upwelling system just south…
Read MoreScanning the Bottom of the World
Grant Ballard of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory scans the open water off Cape Crozier during a 2007 expedition to Antarctica to study Adélie penguins and effects of climate change…
Read MoreVisit from Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead
Tsunami Shrine
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler pays his respects at Namiwake Shrine outside the city of Sendai, Japan, prior to departing on a cruise to study radiation releases into the ocean from…
Read MoreEasy Does It
Hovey Clifford guides 2004 Summer Student Fellows Elizabeth Cushman and Tiffany Psemeneki through the deployment of a clamshell grab sampler to collect sediment from the floor of Buzzards Bay. As…
Read MoreCelebrating World Oceans Day
On World Oceans Day, let us give thanks for some of the ocean’s largest and fiercest inhabitants, like this school of blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie), hovering near a coral reef…
Read MoreSea-Space Connection
In 1986 when the shuttle orbiter Atlantis flew its second mission, WHOI Director John H. Steele was among those invited to witness the nighttime launch, because the shuttle was named…
Read MoreMorning in the Bering Sea
During the International Polar year (2007-2009), biologist Carin Ashjian led a cruise to Bering Sea with a research team studying how climate change is affecting the Arctic’s ocean ecosystem, from…
Read MoreBear Below!
WHOI’s Acoustic Communications group provided support for the Navy’s 2011 Arctic Submarine Laboratory “ICEX” exercises north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Engineer Peter Koski deployed acoustic recorders in 24-inch Pelican cases…
Read MoreClassroom at Sea
This spring, first-year MIT/WHOI Joint Program students enrolled in an introductory course in biological oceanography had the opportunity to participate in a field exercise on R/V Tioga. During the cruise,…
Read MoreMeasuring Plankton
The Video Plankton Recorder (VPR), an underwater video microscope system capable of taking images of plankton and particulate matter as small as 50 microns, is shown here on the deck…
Read MoreAll the Pretty Jellyfish
By Cherie Winner, Kate Madin :: Originally published online June 2, 2011
Read MoreThe Big One
WHOI research assistant Justin Ossolinski snorkels over a massive coral in Vietnam—the largest of its kind in the country, according to WHOI climate scientist Konrad Hughen‘s colleagues at the Institute…
Read MoreStanding Ready
Erik Cordes of Temple University (second from left), Tim Shank (WHOI, to right), and principal investigator Chuck Fisher (Penn State University, far right) discuss the day’s dive during a December…
Read MoreReady for Duty
On April 23, 2011, R/V Atlantis came out of dry-dock in Jacksonville, Florida, with a fresh coat of paint and a full schedule of science cruises. This picture was taken…
Read MoreNorth Pole Spring
WHOI engineers Jeff Pietro (left) and Kris Newhall attached a cylindrical profiler instrument to a wire hanging into the Arctic Ocean recently near the North Pole. Pietro, Newhall and senior…
Read MoreCasting a Short Shadow
An Adélie penguin ponders the long shadows of tall visitors to its colony on Ross Island in the Antarctic. The picture was taken by Chris Linder, a research associate in…
Read MoreLost and Found
“Wet tests” are performed in port with the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus prior to a 2009 expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise—an ultraslow spreading…
Read MoreUp Close with a Jumbo Squid
Aran Mooney (left to right), Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, and Darlene Ketten confer with Julie Arruda over a Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) from Baja Mexico. Ruiz-Cooley came to WHOI recently from the…
Read MorePacking for a Glacial Visit
What do you take if you’re planning for 100 days camped at the foot of a glacier? A Kindle full of books, a guitar, and, if you’re lucky, a very…
Read MoreLoading a Node
Chris Holm of Oregon State University and WHOI engineers John Lund and Jeff Pietro (left to right) help load a Multi-function Node (MFN) onto the R/V Wecoma in preparation for…
Read MoreSpotlight on Seafood
A fishing boat passes by Nosbka Point on its way into Woods Hole. The subject of seafood supply is the topic this week of the Morss Colloquium at Woods Hole…
Read More