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The Reef and the Moon
Gliding over a Bermudan coral reef in October 2010, WHOI scientist Anne Cohen (center) and post-doctoral investigator Neal Cantin (left) were followed by a BBC cameraman. The group was filming…
Read MoreIce Capades
Tired of this winter’s ice and snow? They are nothing compared to the conditions encountered by WHOI researchers on an expedition in March 2010 off Barrow, Alaska. Physical oceanographer Al…
Read MoreTubeworms Through the Years
WHOI geologist Susan Humphris (center, in blue sweatshirt) and colleagues inspect tubeworms and other samples in Alvin‘s collection basket during a 2002 expedition to the Galápagos Rift, where seafloor hydrothermal…
Read MoreSentry in the Gulf of Mexico
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, shown here in the Gulf of Mexico in July 2010 with WHOI’s (from left) Cameron McIntyre, Andy Billings, and James Kinsey. In the background…
Read MoreUm, I Love It But I Hope It Comes With a Manual
A group of penguins watch as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) SeaBED is deployed from the deck of the R/V James C. Ross in the Weddell Sea in November 2010.…
Read MoreA MODE of Studying the Ocean
A string of mooring floats goes over the fantail of the WHOI research vessel Chain in 1973 during the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE). Conceived a decade earlier, this study of…
Read MoreA Match Made in Woods Hole
The manned submersible Alvin (foreground) undergoes testing in Great Harbor, Woods Hole, in the late 1960s. In the background is the R/V Lulu, Alvin‘s first tender and the namesake of the…
Read MoreREMUS Gets Around
With the wind chill factor below -50°, a WHOI research team deploys a REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle in a hole in sea ice off Barrow, Alaska, in March 2010.…
Read MoreDrilling for Coral History
WHOI scientists Pat Lohmann (left) and Neal Cantin drill into a massive starlet coral on a reef north of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to remove a core sample. The…
Read MoreAlvin Returns to Woods Hole
Alvin Returns to Woods Hole
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Read MoreShells in the Sands of Time
In sediments beneath the Sargasso Sea, WHOI geologist Lloyd Keigwin found a 17,500-year-old clamshell and a mystery: Why was this South Atlantic species living in deep water near Bermuda at…
Read MoreTaking in the Antarctic Sights
When scientists venture into a place as remote and spectacular as the Antarctic, no one is above a little sightseeing. During a recent trip through the Weddell Sea, this group…
Read MoreKnorr and Lulu Head to Sea
A towline connects the crane of the R/V Knorr (right) to Lulu, a 105-foot catamaran that served as the Alvin submersible’s first tender, as the two ships prepared to take…
Read MoreRosettes of the Deep
George Tupper (left) and Terry McKee (right) of WHOI’s Physical Oceanograpthy Department are assisted by Matt Wilkerson of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as they prepare a rosette for deployment off…
Read MoreAlvin’s New Quarters
At a public event in Woods Hole in October 2010, visitors get a close look at a mock-up of the new personnel sphere the research submarine Alvin will receive during…
Read MoreTiny Berths for Tiny Shipmates
Rows of petri dishes could mean bacteria being cultured. Instead, these are shipboard accommodations for copepods, little ocean animals related to shrimp but just a fraction of an inch long.…
Read MoreNow 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 will be…
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 of plankton. On…
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 buoy at…
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 both…
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) booth at…
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 clues about how…
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…
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