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Bottled Water With a Bite
Water samples taken from deep in the North Atlantic wait outside WHOI’s Fye Laboratory for processing. They will be analyzed for trace elements such as neodymium and thorium, which provide…
Read MoreJoint Program Students Go With the Flow
In an MIT/WHOI Joint Program class in Marine Chemistry, WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney discusses the chemical composition of seawater and how it varies geographically and with time. The course…
Read MoreCast Adrift
WHOI engineers Jim Dunn (left in red jacket) and Kris Newhall (kneeling) prepare to deploy an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) during a cruise on the CCCG Louis S. St. Laurent in…
Read MoreA Flying Fish of Sorts
Spray gliders, like this one deployed from the R/V Atlantis in September, are robotic submarines that “fly” underwater without a human controller. In September Chief Scientist Dr. Tim Eglinton and others undertook…
Read MoreA Sub Out of Water
Alvin, the deep-diving, three-person research submarine, is generally on the job, which means it’s at sea. But every few years, it returns to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for routine maintenance…
Read MoreMeet the Sub
WHOI scientist Susan Humphris (far right, seated) answers a question from a member of the audience about the Alvin submersible upgrade project during a public event held on Oct. 17,…
Read MoreLittle Dipper
WHOI scientist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink demonstrates how to sample river water for participants in the Woods Hole Global Rivers project. The project addresses the flow of water, sediments, and nutrients into…
Read MoreThe Icebot short version
By Daniel Cojanu :: Originally published online October 29, 2010
Read MoreHere Piggy
On a 2009 expedition, WHOI biologist Tim Shank and WHOI’s hybrid robotic vehicle Nereus collected this animal 8.984 meters (5.58 miles) down in the Mariana Trench. A sea cucumber in…
Read MoreThe Wide View
William Stelling Von Arx (1916-1999), shown here working with a wide-angle cloud camera and lens, first came to WHOI in 1945. He is known for his work in physical oceanography…
Read MoreThe One that Got Away
Senior Scientist Christopher Reddy (center), director of the Costal Ocean Institute (COI), describes to guests aboard the R/V Tioga how dissolved oxygen levels are measured. In an effort to expand WHOI’s presence…
Read MoreFuture Oceanographers
Young visitors check out one of the most popular exhibits at the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center, a full scale mock-up of the personnel sphere of Alvin. Visitors to the…
Read MoreSound and Chemistry
Will ocean acidification interfere with the ability of whales and other animals to communicate, navigate, and find food? WHOI acoustic scientists Tim Duda and Ilya Udovydchenkov undertook a study in…
Read MoreAnother Day, Another Dive
On a foggy August morning swimmers, Ronnie Whims and Donny Collasius, dive into the water to remove the human occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin‘s basket safety lines. Once all the pre-launch…
Read MoreA Little Crabby
Scientists collected this 8mm crab larva at a deep-sea hydrothermal vent site where an eruption of lava had recently covered the site. Adults of this species (Bythograea thermydron) were common…
Read MoreJournalism Fellows Follow REMUS
WHOI engineer Craig Marquette and Coastal Research Vessel (CRV) Tioga mate Ian Hanley prepare to deploy a Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit (REMUS) as 2010 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows look on…
Read MoreNow, In Studio…
Hanu Singh, an Associate Scientist in Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering who focuses on underwater imaging and robotics, is interviewed for a story for WHOI’s Oceanus Magazine in the Graphic…
Read MoreUp, Up, and Away
After deploying an Arctic Ocean flux buoy and wind-driven generator, crew members from the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent prepare to return the instrument crate back to the ship. The…
Read MoreMulti-purpose Ships
Research vessels Crawford, Atlantis, and Gosnold tied up to the WHOI dock in 1963. The Crawford, a 125-foot Coast Guard cutter acquired in 1956, was mainly used for working on…
Read MoreSearching for Harmful Algae
WHOI researcher Bruce Keafer demonstrates the procedure for filtering water samples for Alexandrium fundyense prior to a research cruise on the R/V Oceanus in April 2008. A. fundyense is a…
Read MoreNew Deep-sea Species off Indonesia
Measuring Mercury
WHOI geochemist Carl Lamborg worked with Bill Martin of WHOI and Mike Bothner of the U.S. Geological Survey to determine the amounts of different forms of mercury in sediments from…
Read MoreWhat Does Dinner Sound Like?
Squid such as this Loligo pealii are a major prey item of many fish, whales, and human fishermen. WHOI researchers are using acoustics to study how whales use sonar to…
Read MoreTwo for the Open Ocean
Research vessels Bear and Atlantis docked at the WHOI pier in 1955. Built during WWII as a troop carrier in the South Pacific, Bear was chartered by the Institution in…
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