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Playing tag
To learn more about what whales do when they dive beneath the surface, scientists use a digital acoustic recording tag, or D-tag. The small device, designed and developed at […]
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An afternoon of science
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student in Biology, Jamie Becker, (center with light blue shirt) discusses his research with guests at the recent Afternoon of Science, during the science poster […]
Read MoreRapid trip to measure oil droplets
WHOI Senior Scientist Cabell Davis (left) and Joint Program graduate student Nick Loomis flank an ROV mounted with a small digital holographic camera before a rapid research trip […]
Read MoreGiving testimony on the Gulf oil spill
Marine chemist Christopher Reddy, Director of the WHOI Coastal Ocean Institute and specialist on the fate of petroleum in the marine environment, is studying the Deepwater Horizon oil […]
Read MoreNew crack
Ian Joughin of the Polar Science Center Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington (UW), examines a large, angular crack in the ice during a 2008 expedition to Read More
A fish-eye lens view
In this fish-eye lens view, the icebreaker Oden is headed north into what will be thicker ice during a 2007 expedition to the Arctic Seafloor. At the top of […]
Read MoreDusk over the Bering Sea
At rest: A multicorer, an oceanographic sampler that drives cylindrical tubes into the seafloor to take multiple sediment samples at once, sits on the deck of the R/V Thomas […]
Read MoreSpray glider studies the Gulf spill
Graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program practice deploying a Spray glider. A Spray glider, a sensor-equipped autonomous underwater vehicle, was recently deployed to the Gulf of Mexico […]
Read MoreOil sample arrives at WHOI
WHOI researchers are making major contributions to efforts to monitor and characterize effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In June, WHOI researchers took […]
Read MoreA torrent of crabs
After a six-month dry season in coastal Panama, the first rains bring masses of bright red land crabs boiling out of their burrows in the forest and scrambling across the […]
Read MoreA whale of an anchor
WHOI welder Tony Delane works on the mooring anchor framework for a multifunction node (MFN) and buoy system that will help researchers monitor the activity of North Atlantic right whales, […]
Read MoreGolden spiral
El Austral and Lulu
El Austral, formerly RV Atlantis, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) dock with RV Lulu. Atlantis was the first WHOI research vessel and the first ship built specifically […]
Read MoreGoing deep
Muddy sediment from beneath the seafloor pokes out of one of the first long cores collected in 2007 by the then-new long corer sampling system on the research vessel […]
Read MorePanning for worms
Research specialist Stace Beaulieu (at left), Summer Student Fellow Eric Rozell, and other students examine invertebrates they sieved from the sand and sediments in the tidal channel at Woodneck […]
Read MoreMaking ocean life count
Feeling GRUVEE
The Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin and the R/V Atlantis work in the waters off Galapagos Islands in April 2010 during the Galapagos Ridge Undersea Volcanic Eruptions Expedition […]
Read MoreCatching ‘snow’ in the ‘twilight zone’
Clindor Cacho of WHOI (middle), and Brad Issler (left) and Stephen Bell (right) from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, recover a Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Trap (NBST) after a […]
Read MoreOily tidal pools
Oil washed into the West Falmouth marsh and tide pools after a 1969 spill, with disastrous consequences for these small marine animals in a tidal pool. Though the marsh […]
Read MoreBeached
A boat lies on a beach in Vineyard Haven Harbor after Hurricane Carol, a category 3 storm, hit the New England coast in August 1954. Hurricane season in the […]
Read MorePrep time
Brian Hogue, an engineering assistant with the Sub-Surface Mooring Operations Group, performs a pre-deployment check on a Vector Averaging Current Meter (VACM) in preparation for a September 2010 […]
Read MoreDangerous beads
It looks like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway, but fish should choose another door! These are a Physalia’s (Man-o’-War jelly’s) tentacles hanging beneath […]
Read MoreFancy meeting you here
Research vessel Atlantis, which is operated by WHOI, and R/V Thomas G. Thompson, which is operated by the University of Washington, became neighbors for a short time during […]
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