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2010 Haiti Earthquake
Originally published online January 1, 2010
Read MoreAlvin to Investigate Gulf Spill
In April 2010, the deep submersible Alvin (shown here with its support ship, R/V Atlantis in the background) carried out a month-long expedition to to the Galapagos Spreading Center in…
Read MoreWhat’s In a Name
In October 2007, U. S. and Filipino scientists searched the deep water of the Celebes Sea in Southeast Asia, for new species. When they discovered this extraordinary worm—which they called…
Read MoreThe Icebot
Originally published online October 29, 2010
Read MoreTagging a Basking Shark
Originally published online January 12, 2012
Read MoreHands-on Design
In 2011 the Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin will receive a major upgrade, including a new titanium personnel sphere. This full scale mock-up of the new sphere will help engineers…
Read MoreThe Weddell Waddle
Scientists working in Antarctica on sea ice in the Weddell Sea are frequently visited by penguins. These were checking up on WHOI Associate Scientist Hanu Singh and his team—Clay Kunz,…
Read MoreAlvin Takes a Bow
A crane lifts the submersible Alvin off the WHOI dock to load it onto R/V Atlantis for a research cruise to the Gulf of Mexico. The crane isn’t bending—it’s appearance…
Read MoreThankful
Students graduating from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering march to the 2010 commencement ceremony on the WHOI Quissett Campus, while PhD recipient Jeff Standish pumps…
Read MoreWHOI Engineer Turns Author
By Elise Hugus :: Originally published online November 24, 2010
Read MoreREMUS Returns from the Deep
Aboard the R/V Tioga, WHOI engineer Craig Marquette (middle) and physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz (left) and Anthony Kirincich work to recover a Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit (REMUS) vehicle during a…
Read MoreLayers of Lobsters
Anna-Mai Christmas, an undergraduate at the University of the Virgin Islands, worked with WHOI biologist Scott Gallager to study the behavior of week-old lobster larvae exposed to layers of water…
Read MoreTaking the Oil’s Measure
In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, WHOI scientists and engineers contributed a broad range of expertise and equipment to investigations of the oil and its impact on…
Read MoreFun With Krill
WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Wu-Jung Lee talk a little krill in the congested lab aboard the R/V Endeavor during a September 2010 cruise. Krill are…
Read MoreWatching the Fraser River Flow
At Hell’s Gate in British Columbia, the Fraser River flows with roughly twice the water volume of the Niagara Falls. A team of scientists and students from WHOI and the…
Read MoreQuite a Ride
Oceanographers working in the North Atlantic in autumn always face the prospect stormy weather, but those on a recent cruise on the research vessel Atlantis got more than their share.…
Read MoreCultured Starlet
WHOI biologist Ann Tarrant looks through her microscope at cultured larvae of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, which lives in salt marshes in the Gulf of Mexico and along…
Read MoreChile Quake Damage
WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to a 12-story building in Concepcion, Chile, that was upended and toppled by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010. Luckily, the building was…
Read MoreCurrent Event
WHOI Engineer Assistant Dan Bogorff (left) and a crew member from the R/V Atlantic Explorer add a current meter to one of six moorings that were deployed down the southeast…
Read MoreA Picture-Perfect Volcano
The A-frame of the R/V Tangaroa frames Mount Maunganui, the dormant volcano that welcomes mariners to the port of Tauranga, New Zealand. Tauranga was the departure point for Associate Scientist…
Read MoreAn Ocean-Going Tradition, Then and Now
In this 1965 aerial view of Woods Hole, WHOI’s three large laboratories, left to right, are visible: the Bigelow, Smith, and Redfield buildings. The research vessels Chain and Bear are…
Read MoreTeaching the Teachers
Twice per year, WHOI hosts teacher workshops designed to give educators first-hand knowledge about exciting and current ocean science and engineering topics. Here teachers get some experience with a classroom…
Read MoreHow Do Baby Corals Grow?
Summer intern Hannah Barkley holds a ceramic tile on which several star-shaped skeletons of newly-settled coral have developed (circled). A senior at Princeton, Barkley spent the summer working with WHOI…
Read MoreHappy Veterans Day
Al Woodcock (left) and an unidentified colleague test a smoke generator in 1943. The device was used to study the effectiveness of smoke screens to protect troops during beach landings…
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