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On the march
Huge sand dunes aren’t found only in deserts. These massive dunes (note people for scale) are bearing down on a coastal town in equatorial Brazil. WHOI scientist Ilya Buynevich, from […]
Read MoreSearching for snapper fish
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelton McMahon (front) and WHOI research assistant Leah Houghton enter a large underwater cavern on a Red Sea coral reef off Alith, […]
Read MoreLinking the Indian Ocean and monsoons
Surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean naturally oscillate, a phenomenon called the Indian Ocean Dipole. During its positive phase, warmer waters in the western Indian Ocean bring heavy rains […]
Read MoreTracking reef fish
An orange anemonefish (Amphiprion sandaracinos) hides among sea anemones at a reef off Restoff Island in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. In April 2005, WHOI biologist Simon […]
Read MoreHanging on
At the edge of a coral reef in the Red Sea, an isolated leather coral clings to a rocky outcrop. It’s individual polyps, tightly curled in the photo, open up […]
Read MoreIsland view
Researchers who camped and worked on Greenland’s ice sheet this summer soaked in their initial glimpses of the huge Arctic island. “As western Greenland came into view, first-time visitors like myself […]
Read MoreThe top of the reef
Coral reefs often extend from a sandy bottom to just beneath the water’s surface, forming broad reef flats. Barely a foot below the surface, the flats can be a harsh […]
Read MoreTakuss, Greenland
Researchers who spent weeks in Greenland camping and working on the ice sheet said a final takuss (Greenlandic for see you) to Disko Bay, located in the coastal town Ilulissat. Photographer Chris […]
Read MoreHot fluid on a cold seafloor
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Fish dish
Summer student Lauren Watka from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth holds a petri dish of fish eggs from mummichogs, Fundulus heteroclitus. Working with post-doctoral fellow Matthew Jenny in […]
Read MoreChangeable clowns
Reef’s edge
An inflatable boat and dive-tour operators stand by at a coral reef’s edge in the Red Sea, where WHOI scientists are studying the unique, pristine reef ecosystems along Saudi Arabia’s […]
Read MoreProfiling below the ice
WHOI engineering assistant Kris Newhall (left) and crewmember of the Canadian icebreaker Louis V. St. Laurent Brian Mackenzie (middle) prepare to assist WHOI research specialist Rick Krishfield in […]
Read MoreArctic summer night
Midnight in Greenland, in the summer, means the sun still shines. “For recent arrivals, the round-the-clock daylight streaming in the hotel windows have wreaked havoc on our internal clocks,” wrote […]
Read MoreNew faces at old places
Small mushroom-shaped coral colonies are young recruits that have settled on a large dead coral in the Red Sea. Juvenile corals are continually colonizing hard substrates, including ancient colonies that […]
Read MoreMooring away
In November 2007, R/V Atlantis Bosun Patrick Hennessy (left) and MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate Benjamin Walther deploy a pump mooring during the LADDER III (LArval Dispersal on the […]
Read MoreWhat Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online December 23, 2008
Read MoreTracking reef fish larvae
A spine-cheek anemonefish (Premnas biaculeatus), or maroon clownfish, swims along a coral reef in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. As part of an international collaboration, WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold […]
Read MoreA Deep-sea Chemical Sniffing Bloodhound
Mass spectrometers are often big and delicate instruments that require their own environmentally controlled rooms. WHOI engineer Rich Camilli developed one that scientists can bring into the depths to sensitively […]
Read MoreSlow motion destruction
Gliding on hundreds of tiny suction-cup feet, A Crown-of-thorns sea star roams the reef, consuming
immobile corals and leaving bare coral skeleton behind. Common in the Pacific and […]
Experimental crystals
Crystals of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate, grew together in a “bowtie” bundle—a classic mineral crystal growth pattern—when grown in the laboratory under controlled experimental conditions. This experiment is […]
Read MoreBuoys hunting for data
Christmas Coral
New skeleton made by a two-week old baby Porites “porous” coral reared in an experimental aquarium at the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences looks like a miniature Christmas tree. The […]
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