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Deeper into the delta
Summer Student Fellow Sam Zipper spent his summer on balmy Cape Cod studying the western Canadian Arctic. Zipper analyzed sediment cores from the Mackenzie River Delta with his WHOI sponsor,…
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WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold snapped this image of a peacock grouper (Cephalopholus argus) while working in Saudi Arabia in June 2009. Thorrold and an international team conducted a rapid, ecological…
Read MoreHeavily timbered
A gift from the closed Carnegie Institution’s Dry Tortugas laboratory, the 70-foot (21-meter) Anton Dohrn made 40 cruises from 1940 to 1947 for WHOI investigations from the Gulf of Maine…
Read MoreBalance onboard
The Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin averages 150-175 dives per year. Here 3rd mate Kami Bucholz (left) and engineering assistant Anton Zafereo balance onboard HOV Alvin during recovery operations. The…
Read MoreAfter the maiden voyage
While her Oberlin classmates accepted their diplomas at a graduation ceremony in Ohio, Summer Student Fellow Eleanor Bors was aboard the R/V Kilo Moana along with her advisor, WHOI biologist…
Read MoreWHOI-South Korean exchange
It is considered South Korea’s worst oil spill. On Dec. 7, 2007, the Hebei Spirit leaked more than 11,000 tons of oil near Taean National Marine Park. Three different types…
Read MoreTubeworms make good real estate
To test whether complex physical structure could maintain the species diversity hydrothermal vent communities in areas of chemosynthetic primary production, Breea Govenar, a Postdoctoral Investigator in the Biology Department, deployed…
Read MoreTesting tank
Engineering assistant Tom Lanagan and engineer Dan Duffany test a new launcher for the Archerfish — a mine neutralizing remotely operated vehicle (ROV) used to eliminate subsurface mines with a…
Read MoreWhat are you doing on my island?
McKean Island —one of the reef-fringed islands of the world’s largest marine protected area, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area — harbors large nesting populations of lesser frigate bird (Fregata ariel).…
Read MoreDive in
Dive and Discover‘s Expedition 10 explored one of the coldest, most remote places on our planet — the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. In March 2006, a team of researchers aboard…
Read MoreWave of blue and green
A school of colorful, bluegreen chromis (Chromis viridis) seek shelter in a coral colony in the Farasan Banks. An international team of scientists, including WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold, conducted a…
Read MoreEarly machining
In this 1946 photograph, five men work in the WHOI machine shop that was set up on the ground floor of the Bigelow Laboratory in 1940. Ralph Bodman is behind…
Read MoreMustard coral
Young polyps of the mustard coral, Porites astreoides, extend their tentacles during feeding time at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). These 12-week old spat, reared from birth in…
Read MoreHome sweet home
Seamounts support a vast variety of cold water coral communities. These deep-sea corals themselves host more than 1,300 different species of animals. Some animals are often unique to their seamount…
Read MoreWithin arms reach
A pilot on board the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin uses one of the vehicles two hydraulically-powered robotic arms to probe tube worms on the sea floor of the East Pacific…
Read MoreHaven for seabirds
The small coral islands of the remote Phoenix Islands are important resting and nesting areas for millions of seabirds, some of them rare and endangered. Over time, seafaring Polynesians, explorers,…
Read MorePet cemetery
This isn’t an elaborate Halloween decoration or the set of a Stephen King movie. The pet cemetery — a permanent fixture on the WHOI Quissett campus — is the final…
Read MoreBoo!
A pair of Red Sea anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) take shelter in a pumpkin-colored sea anemone. An international team of scientists conducted a rapid, ecological survey of corals and coral reef…
Read MoreA decidedly defensive stance
Seamounts are underwater mountains found throughout the global ocean. Many seamounts are extinct volcanoes that once erupted from seafloor vents, with lava flows building thousands of meters up from the…
Read MoreExploring an Icy, Invisible Realm in Antarctica
They may be microscopic in size, but plankton play a starring role in the oceans’ food web and the Earth’s climate. Scientists are just beginning to reveal the rich diversity…
Read MoreCold water corals
Scientists collected thousands of samples of cold-water corals living on the seafloor during three expeditions between 2003 and 2005 to the New England Seamounts, a chain of extinct underwater volcanoes,…
Read MoreSix foot worms!
This picture of tubeworms was taken in the East Pacific Rise at a depth of 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) by the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin. Since the discovery of hydrothermal…
Read MoreJelly Ring
A colony of 12 salps drifts through the distant tropical waters of the Phoenix Islands. The salps are transparent tubular animals arranged around a center, like segments in an orange.…
Read MoreTropical Isle
Eight atolls in the Pacific represent the world’s largest marine protected area — the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Atolls are low ring-shaped islands of coral rubble that form over millennia…
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