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Synchronized Swimming
A Pacific white-sided dolphin swims alongside the research vessel Atlantis during an October 2006 cruise off the Oregon coast. Pacific white-sided dolphins and their Atlantic counterparts are known as avid…
Read MoreTalking Marine Mammals
Officials from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) toured the Marine Research Facility recently with WHOI Senior Research Specialist Michael Moore (foreground, left). They discussed the role the…
Read MorePending IOD
The submersible Alvin prepares for a dive in September 2009. Built in 1964, the hardworking sub helped turn a sunless, freezing marine world into a new frontier. More than 4,000…
Read MoreInto the deep
Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott (left) watches as U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Nevin Carr climbs into the sub, which is owned by the Navy and operated by WHOI for the U.S.…
Read MoreTwo Navy Vets
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry visited WHOI in September and took the opportunity to tour the submersible Alvin during a rare port call in Woods Hole. Alvin, which is operated by…
Read MoreReady for Anything
WHOI engineers Al Bradley (left) and Al Duester review the prep list for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry in June before its mission in the Gulf of Mexico. Later…
Read MoreTiny Things in a Big Ocean
As part of WHOI’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, biologist Cabell Davis dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico with a new digital holographic camera system—the holocam. He and…
Read MoreThe Mercury Cycle
Mercury cycles from Earth’s crust to the air to the ocean and back to land. In the ocean, top predator fish such as tuna and swordfish contain high levels of…
Read MoreWhat I Did on my Summer Vacation
Elizabeth Halliday spent the summer at the beach, but she wasn’t swimming or sunbathing. Instead, the MIT/WHOI Joint Program student used her summer vacation to study the causes of bacterial-induced…
Read MoreYankee Ingenuity
In 1972, research technician Asa Wing sewed yards of fine-mesh material into a giant conical sampling net designed for biologist Richard Backus, who studied fishes, an ongoing research area at…
Read MoreGreat Green Gobs
Recent college graduates Dana Giffen, left, and Seth Zippel experienced the realities of oceanographic fieldwork during the summer of 2009 with WHOI scientists Britt Raubenheimer and Steve Elgar. Together, the…
Read MoreEcho Joins the WHOI Fleet
The Crosby Yacht Yard has been building boats on Cape Cod since 1850, so it’s particularly exciting that one of their boats has joined the WHOI fleet. The Echo, a…
Read MoreTagging Pilot Whales
The shiny black skin of a long-finned pilot whale reflects the image of researchers working from an inflatable boat in the Alboran Sea off the Spanish coast. The researchers studying…
Read MoreGolden Snail, Counted in the Census
This tiny (1mm) larval snail with a swirled, sculpted shell was collected in 2005 from a hydrothermal vent site 2500 meters deep, where adults of its species reach 7 cm.…
Read MoreDeep Beauty and Diversity
Seamounts often support high biodiversity and abundance and attract commercial fishing, but we know little about them. The international research project CenSeam—a Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts—is led…
Read MoreCelebrating Planktonic Biodiversity
Planktonic animals from the world’s oceans drift across a poster celebrating the accomplishments of a long-term international research project, the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ). WHOI researchers Peter Wiebe, Nancy…
Read MoreReading the Depths
Working on the deck of the R/V Atlantis, William Shultz disassembles a bathythermograph, or BT—a torpedo-shaped device containing sensors that detect changes in water temperature and pressure. Developed in the…
Read MoreDetecting a Harmful Algal Bloom
Guest student Stacey Lee recovers water samples from a CTD rosette on the deck of the R/V Oceanus during a May 2008 cruise. Lee and others on board were studying…
Read MoreComing Aboard for Its Annual Check-Up
WHOI engineer John Kemp (in coveralls) and bosun Blaine Blinkhorn (in red) recover a McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) from the Beaufort Sea during a research cruise on the Canadian Coast…
Read MoreAll in the Family
Katie Eident (background) returned to Woods Hole recently on the R/V Atlantis after eight months aboard the ship. Her parents, Donna and William, were at the WHOI dock to greet…
Read MoreTwo Men and a BT
WHOI researchers Fritz Fuglister, left, and Dana Densmore inspect a bathythermograph, or BT, prior to a research cruise in 1957. BTs measure temperature and depth while being dropped from or…
Read MoreGoing Overboard
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is launched from the research vessel Cape Hatteras during the first research cruise to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise.…
Read MoreNew Kid on the Dock
The NOAA research ship Henry B. Bigelow arrived at the WHOI dock on Thursday, the vessel’s first call in its new homeport, Woods Hole. Named after WHOI’s founding director and…
Read MoreTwister in a Bottle
Geophysicist Stewart Turner works on a laboratory model of a tornado vortex, circa 1962. Turner, who later returned to Australian National University, did research at WHOI while on a Rossby…
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