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Taking the helm
Rob Munier was named the newest vice president for Marine Operations and Facilities at WHOI on March 1. He has spent more than 500 days at sea during a 30-year…
Read MoreThat was just SUPR
John (Chip) Breier (left) and Carly Strasser recover a plankton pump mooring and a new particulate sampler, the Suspended Particulate Rosette Sampler (SUPR), which Breier developed with funding from the…
Read MoreLava rocks!
Two types of lava can form from the same volcano. These samples came from an eruption in Antarctica that occurred about 25,000 years ago. They were collected by WHOI geoscientists…
Read MoreWhat does dinner sound like to a whale?
Wu-Jung Lee, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, adjusts the apparatus that allows her to record sonar echoes from a squid at different orientations. She is trying to…
Read MoreThe Future of a Coral Reef
Dissection of the Red Sea coral Acropora reveals bright pink spheres surrounded by the coral’s white skeleton. These are the coral’s eggs. Each individual Acropora makes both eggs and sperm,…
Read MoreDive in and explore!
During the 2010 Cambridge Science Festival, kids of all ages took a try at navigating a remote-controlled submarine around a mock hydrothermal vent at the ocean floor while learning about…
Read MoreIce camp
Kris Newhall and Jeff Pietro of the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department with the latest ice-tethered profiler (ITP), which was deployed April 20, 2010, from their ice camp located…
Read MoreKetchum Award to James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, received the 15th B.H. Ketchum Award April 28 from WHOI President and Director Susan K. Avery. The WHOI…
Read MoreMass. Senate President Murray visits WHOI
Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray (center) recently visited WHOI’s Rinehart Coastal Research Laboratory and heard about work supported by the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, through the John Adams Innovation Institute for…
Read MoreClams, bacteria, and chemicals
In the late 1980s, Noellette Conway Schempf, Joint Program graduate and current WHOI Corporation Member, used a chromatograph to analyze amino acids from shallow-water clams (Solemya velum) that harbor symbiotic…
Read MoreUnder pressure
Pressure ridges form when ice floes break up and are pressed back together, similar to the way that mountain ranges form when two continents bump together. These ridges are located…
Read MoreChanging chemistry
Intensive burning of fossil fuels and deforestation over the last two centuries have increased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere by almost 40 percent. The oceans absorb about one-third…
Read MoreMonitoring the Arctic Ocean
WHOI oceanographer Bob Pickart and colleagues have been studying water movement across the Arctic Shelf into the Arctic Ocean basin, part of a multi-year project to learn more about this…
Read MoreDay of departure
A group of graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program get ready to set sail on the (SSV) Corwith Cramer for the 2009 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Each year students…
Read MoreIce fishing for an AUV
Al Plueddemann and Kris Newhall recover the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) REMUS 100 from an ice hole in Barrow, Alaska. The WHOI research team, led by Plueddemann and Amy Kukulya,…
Read MoreNereus in miniature
Casey Machado, of the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department, holds a model of the Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle Nereus. The model —a 1/14th scale replica of the deep-diving vehicle—…
Read MoreAsphalt Volcanoes on the Seafloor
By Cherie Winner, Joel Greenberg, Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online April 25, 2010
Read MoreTesting the icy waters
En-route to Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States, researchers from WHOI pass over the remote, rugged terrain of the Arctic Circle. The WHOI research team, led by…
Read MoreKeeping a close eye on Haiti
WHOI geophysics guest student Tingting Wang and senior scientist Jian Lin (right) study Haiti earthquake data on charts. Lin has studied Haiti and other tectonic areas of the Caribbean and…
Read MoreFrom walruses to worms
The Bering Sea is a cold place, but it’s home to animals from walruses to worms. A dish of polychaete worms and one mollusk (the light pink loop in the…
Read MoreChemist Jean Whelan
Jean Whelan, Oceanographer Emeritis in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry department, remembers building this analytical equipment as a technician in chemist John Hunt’s lab, about 1980. “A new technique had…
Read MoreSteady rosette
Putting scientific equipment into Arctic waters —such as this conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette — requires an intricate balance of motion and timing. The shipboard CTD is made up of a set…
Read MoreThe future Alvin
A conceptual illustration of the next-generation research submersible: The WHOI-operated research submersible Alvin is a workhorse of deep sea science and exploration. Built in 1964, Alvin has made more than…
Read MoreEarth, the original recycling system
Post-doctoral Fellow Nicole Keller and associate scientist Alison Shaw, both of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI, pause during their hike to the Poas volcano in Costa Rica…
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