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Deep diver
The new deep-sea vehicle Nereus successfully reached the deepest part of the ocean — the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean— on May 31, 2009. First conceived in 2000…
Read MoreGrowing marine algae
In experimental tanks at WHOI, guest student Tyler Goepfert grows different species of marine algae to test which might be best suited for harvesting and converting into biofuels. Goepfert is…
Read MoreBowhead hotspot
Stephen R. Okkonen of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Guest Investigator Robert Campbell from the University of Rhode Island deploy a conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD)…
Read MoreSteaming away
The R/V Knorr steams away from the coast of Cape Dyer, Baffin Island—the largest island in Canada—in October 2009. The ship was in the area to recover a series of…
Read MoreLife on (and under) the ice
WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito snapped this image of two Emperor penguins while working in Antarctica in November 2009. Over the past two years, Saito and his colleagues have shared…
Read MoreDating corals
MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student Andrea Burke of the Geology & Geophysics department cuts pieces of a deep-sea coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) collected from about 1000 meters depth in the Drake Passage.…
Read MoreExtracting DNA
Summer Student Fellow Erica Hildebrand of Connecticut College spent her summer working with WHOI biologist Stefan Sievert on a project to assess the microbial community composition of five distinct low-temperature…
Read MoreAnchors away
R/V Knorr bosun Pete Liarikos and University of Washington engineer Eric Boget move a mooring anchor into position for deployment as part of the Arctic Gateways program. The anchors, which…
Read MoreA barnacle’s life
For his graduate research, WHOI postdoctoral investigator Jonathan Blythe studied the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides at Gardiner Beach in Woods Hole. He focused on the transition between the larval and…
Read MoreHome again
Able-Bodied Seaman Mike Singleton (in silhouette) on board the R/V Knorr keeps lookout as Captain Kent Sheasley prepares to dock the ship at the WHOI pier following a month of…
Read MoreTake the chill off
Leaving the chilly coast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, the R/V Knorr heads for the warmer waters of Hawaii in July 2009. Built in 1969 and delivered to Woods Hole the…
Read MoreThe Great Ocean Conveyor
In the North Atlantic Ocean in winter, the contrast between frigid, dry winter air and warm water draws heat from the ocean into the atmosphere and leaves ocean water colder…
Read MoreTrawling for krill clues
WHOI Researcher Philip Alatalo, left, and Guest Investigator Robert Campbell from the University of Rhode Island deploy a Tucker Trawl in an effort to catch krill during a recent cruise…
Read MoreOn the straight and narrow
With a wake of broken ice straight behind the ship, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy heads home after a 38-day expedition to study how climate change is affecting the…
Read MoreA day in the life of a lab
In this Dec. 17 snapshot of activity in the Marine Research Facility Necropsy Lab, researchers investigate the body of a common dolphin that died the day before in Harwich. The animal…
Read MoreIce lake
Greenland — the world’s largest island — is also home to one of the world’s largest ice sheets (after Antarctica). If Greenland’s two-mile-thick ice sheet melts completely, it would ultimately…
Read MoreCalm harbor
This small boat harbor is located in one of the fjords at Nuuk, Greenland, near where the R/V Knorr was docked in preparation for a cruise around Greenland. The mountain…
Read MoreCurious ribbons
Researchers aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy spotted these two ribbon seals — a mother and her fat pup — during an April 2009 cruise to study how climate…
Read MoreThe rhythm of salps
Salps—transparent organism that range from 0.5 to five inches long—are the subject of MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Rakow Sutherland’s PhD dissertation. Observing them in their habitat off the Pacific…
Read MoreResearch barge?
A barge may be an unconventional platform for oceanographic mooring work, but members of the Physical Oceanography and Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering departments — John Kemp, Jim Ryder, Paul…
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Read MoreRise and shine
A marine science technician aboard the iceabreaker USCG Healy pushes a conductivity/ temperature/depth (CTD) recorder during a spring 2009 research cruise to study the Bering Sea ecosystem. A CTD is…
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