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Greenland’s glaciers
A Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) recorder and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) are deployed in Sermilik Fjord in Greenland where WHOI researcher Fiamma Straneo and colleagues are measuring…
Read MoreA plethora of polyps
Polyps of the star coral, montrastrea cavernosa, with a green algae at its center, used as a source of food. Star coral are common in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and…
Read MoreBlue ice sculpture
An iceberg stands between the Antarctic Research Support Vessel Laurence M. Gould and Palmer Station, as viewed from the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. Researchers spent several weeks in the winter…
Read MoreCoring for Climate Clues
In April 2009, onboard the Research Vessel Knorr, the at-sea operations team maneuvers the Long Core release module into place prior to its deployment. The release module has an acoustic…
Read MoreA-Frame(d) Atlantis
As the R/V Atlantis sails into port, it is seen from within R/V Knorr‘s A-frame while docked at San Diego in June of this year. Owned by the US Navy,…
Read MoreFloating without imploding
To allow a heavy deep-sea vehicle like Nereus to float in the deepest depths, engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used an entirely new system of ceramic spheres to…
Read MoreSummer Fellows
2009 Summer Picnic
Finding Titanic
The sunken luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic was located on September 1, 1985 by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s new imaging vehicle Argo, towed from the Research Vessel Knorr. Today the…
Read MorePartially bleached
Many corals and other marine animals contain dinoflagellate symbionts that provide nutrition to the host from photosynthesis. These symbionts can be expelled from the host following exposure to elevated temperature…
Read MoreNereus in the Challenger Deep
Originally published online May 31, 2009
Read MoreDeep in the Delta
After their helicopter landed on a remote lake in the Mackenzie River Delta, marine geochemist Daniel Montluçon (in blue), geologist Liviu Giosan (in grey), and Allen Firth (Gwich’in observer, in…
Read MoreSizing up zooplankton
Zooplankton come in a wide range of sizes, for comparison, here’s a Calanus copepod next to a krill. The krill or euphausiid is about one and one-half centimeter long while…
Read MoreCollecting and counting
Retired WHOI researcher Hovey Clifford instructs Summer Student Fellow Tara Hetz in collecting animals derived from towed samples during the recent cruise onboard R/V Tioga. The glass dish they are…
Read MoreRing around the ear bone
As a schoolmaster snapper grows, its ear bones, or otoliths, form sequential rings, much like a tree trunk, corresponding to different times in the fish’s life. Each ring in the…
Read MoreNereus at Work
The multi-tasking vehicle will assist with a variety of research needs. By Amy Nevala :: Originally published online June 26, 2006
Read MoreCooking up marine asphalt
Remnants of natural explosions of oil from the seafloor (asphalt volcanoes) are now being observed. Marine chemist and Coastal Institute director Chris Reddy and Dave Valentine of University of California,…
Read MoreWho is observing whom?
During a dive to the deep-sea hydrothermal vents at Guyamas Basin (Gulf of California, Mexico), an octopus eyes the submersible Alvin. The dive was conducted as part of an R/V…
Read MoreOrca rising
Orcas (Orcinus orca) are toothed whales that hunt large single prey, such as fish, squid, penguins and seals. Marine chemist Mak Saito photographed this Orca on McMurdo Sound sea ice…
Read MoreHurricane season
A look at Silver Beach in North Falmouth, Ma., after the hurricane of 1938 shows the extensive damage a hurricane can do to the coast. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Read MoreCharting their course
Jordan Aoyama, a student in the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) sponsored by the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee, learns sextant skills from R/V Tioga captain Ken Houtler during…
Read MoreLong legs, short body
On a 2006 cruise to explore the deep Celebes Sea, expedition scientists collected this 3-centimeter (1.25-inch) isopod — a relative of land-based pill bugs — using a collection chamber mounted…
Read MoreTag, you’re it!
Researcher Leigh Hickmott tags a pilot whale using a digital recording tag (D-Tag) during the Mediterranean 2009 research cruise — part of an ongoing, international and interdisciplinary effort to better…
Read MoreA Flash in the Gut
In 2007 WHOI biologist Laurence Madin led a team of scientists and photographers from the U.S. and the Philippines on an expedition to explore biodiversity in the deep Celebes Sea.…
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