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Along for the Ride
This juvenile crab was hitching a ride inside the barrel-shaped body of a transparent, gelatinous pelagic tunicate collected at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama. Pelagic tunicates, or Read More
Arctic Winch
The Arctic Winch is a small buoyant float (white) attached to the mooring’s red top-float. It carries instruments to measure temperature, pressure, and salinity of waters near the ice-infested surface. […]
Read MoreState-of-the-art tour
Biologist Darlene Ketten (far center) gives the 2008 class of WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellows a tour of the necropsy suite, where post-mortem studies of marine creatures […]
Read MoreOutside the Box
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kelly Rakow Sutherland captured this image of a box jellyfish (Carybdea sp.) during a night scuba dive off the Pacific coast of Panama at […]
Read MoreNot your typical “cold lab”
Greenland’s mountains came into view this October from the stern of the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr. WHOI scientist Bob Pickart led a month-long expedition to the storm-swept Irminger Sea. Pickart and […]
Read MoreMaking connections
Engineer Keith Von Der Heydt connects cables in Woods Hole prior to testing acoustic source drivers, in preparation for deployment for the “Surface Processes and Acoustic Communications Experiment,” also known as […]
Read MoreReaching for sunlight
WHOI scientist Konrad Hughen, who studies tropical climate change recorded in coral skeletons, spotted this 15-cm (6-inch) “rosy finger coral” (Stylophora pistillata) at 2-3 meters depth while surveying […]
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Trichodesmium
Cruising for clues
Students Nicole Trenhom (in cap) and Zion Klos used ground-penetrating radar this summer in a Cape Cod kettle pond to look for signs of former shorelines deposited during ancient droughts. They worked […]
Read MoreSub-surface sampling
WHOI scientist Phoebe Lam (right), WHOI-MIT joint program student James Saenz (center), and Pericles Silva (left) from Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas in Cape Verde, deploy a […]
Read MoreMeet the neighbor
Konrad Hughen (in WHOI’s Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department) was diving in just 2-3 meters (6-9 feet) of water when this Red Sea resident came out to watch. […]
Read MoreLandscape of history
Dense meter-high thickets of staghorn coral surround massive, rounded, ancient coral colonies in the background. WHOI scientist Konrad Hughen photographed this undersea landscape just 15 feet down while surveying […]
Read MoreVisitors to a WHOI ship
The Mysterious Lives of Larvae
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Christine Mingione filters plankton samples from Waquoit Bay in search of shellfish larvae, which are no bigger than a fine grain of sand. […]
Read MoreMaking blue soup
Undergraduate student Tobin Hammer prepares a colorful nutrient solution for culturing micro-organisms in WHOI microbiologist Stefan Sievert‘s microbial ecology laboratory. Hammer, a 2008 Summer Student Fellow from […]
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Trichodesmium
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Read MoreThe Many Faces of Trichodesmium
Tiny bone packs a lifetime of information
The small white object on MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kelton McMahon‘s finger is a fish’s otolith, or ear bone. Otoliths are composed of layers secreted by a […]
Read More“SUPR Summer” on the dock
While on board R/V Roger Revelle at the WHOI dock in July 2008, Summer Student Fellow Kaitlyn McCartney (MIT) adjusted a sampler designed by WHOI Post-doctoral Scholar Read More
One of the deep’s denizens
An alien from inner space, this apparition is a common inhabitant of the world’s oceans—a member of the zooplankton, animals that are not strong swimmers but drift with the currents. […]
Read MoreThe news of the day
WHOI scientist emeritus Sandy Williams (at left) and physical oceanographer Jim Churchill (at right) explain the impending deployment of a bottom tripod equipped with two instruments — a […]
Read MoreA Tag Fit for a Porpoise
When Stacy DeRuiter came to the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in 2003, the newly developed “D-tag” — a non-invasive, temporary digital recording device designed for use on whales — was […]
Read MoreLearning How a Porpoise Locates Prey
In these experimental trials on a captive porpoise at the Fjord & Baelt Center in Denmark, a trainer on one end of a pool directs the porpoise to find a […]
Read MoreIn the pink
Beautiful, ugly, or just plain peculiar according to individual reactions, this pink see-through fantasia is a swimming sea cucumber seen about 2,500 meters deep in the Celebes Sea. In […]
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