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Looking it over
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Stephanie Owens isn’t on a jungle gym—she’s checking specialized pumps used to filter water collected at various depths in the ocean and extract trace amounts […]
Read MoreGoing with the flow
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students and their instructors take a break from hiking for a group photo at the base of Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica during a […]
Read MoreBuoys in the blue
Free-diving, WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda checks the line securing two below-surface buoys to his mooring on a coral reef in the Red Sea, in June 2008. The buoys bear […]
Read MoreConserving cold-water corals
A large pink sea fan, which belongs to the genus Paragorgia, holds within its branches a thriving community of brittle stars, crabs, and shrimp. Deep coral ecosystems, which host extremely […]
Read MoreOut from the sediments, into the water
WHOI Chemist Carl Lamborg holds a Niskin bottle, which is used to collect water samples. During work conducted in Waquoit Bay in 2005, Lamborg, fellow chemist Matt Charette, […]
Read MoreProtecting fish nurseries
Juvenile coral reef fish get food and protection from predators among the roots and nutrient-rich waters of coastal mangrove swamps. These valuable fish nurseries are disappearing at an alarming […]
Read MoreAll Aboard, Standing Room Only
Launching the Mooring
By Fiamma Straneo :: Originally published online March 27, 2007
Read MoreRocks Do Tell Tales
A rock sample, collected from the Central Indian Ridge, a mountain chain running through the Indian Ocean, sparkles with information. It’s channel is lined with a fine-grained mineral called chalcopyrite […]
Read MoreSay “Cheese” Deep beneath the Pacific
Studies of a Pristine Setting
Sunset creeps across the shore at the Liquid Jungle Laboratory in Panama, a new, privately-funded research lab for the study of tropical marine and land ecosystems. WHOI scientists helped […]
Read MoreCheerful Farewell
Students from Seltjarnarnes Community in Iceland toured the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr in early October prior to its departure for research in the Irminger Sea. The school is one […]
Read MoreIt Takes a Village
Boats fill Eel Pond in the village of Woods Hole,which is home to a variety of research institutions, including (left to right) National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Biological […]
Read MoreSparring on the Dock
Engineers Will Ostrom (foreground) and Dan Duffany prepare to test the ballast of a spar buoy off the WHOI dock in July 2008. The buoy was built as a replacement […]
Read MoreBundled Up while Diving Deep
Helicopter View of Greenland’s Ice Sheet
From a helicopter, deep meltwater channels on Greenland’s massive ice sheet become visible. Lakes form on the ice each summer as the sun returns. As lakes fill, the channels overflow and […]
Read MoreGetting a Nitrogen Fix
Biogeochemist Karen Casciotti is working to understand how microorganisms affect the exchange of excess nutrients (principally nitrate) between groundwater and the coastal ocean. Casciotti and colleagues are using […]
Read MoreAngry Irminger
A Jelly-Eat-Jelly World
Purple Parasol
Elegant and diaphanous, the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca is pretty, but packs a punch. These jellies (also called “purple-striped jelly” or “mauve stinger”) produce bright bioluminescent light (noctiluca means “night […]
Read MoreForging a New Adventure
The original personnel sphere of the Alvin submersible is shaped from a steel plate in 1964 at Lukens Steel Co., in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The sphere was used until 1973, […]
Read MoreWith a Little Help From My Friends
Engineers and crew members load the surface buoy of a Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) onto the research vessel Oceanus in July 2008. Funded through the Cooperative Institute […]
Read MoreInvasion of “Alien Vomit”?
Originally published online February 13, 2014
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