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Deep-sea Corals
By Kristen M. Kusek, Tim Silva :: Originally published online November 6, 2007
Read MoreWater is terrific! Bugs? Not so hot
Maya Bhatia, a doctoral student at WHOI, took hundreds of water samples this summer to learn about water chemistry during seven weeks of research in western Greenland. Bhatia, who works…
Read MoreResearchers Band Together to Create a Band
By Elise Hugus :: Originally published online October 27, 2008
Read MoreLooking 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 of…
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 June 2008…
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 Arabic…
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, and other…
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 rate.…
Read MoreAll Aboard, Standing Room Only
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s “workhorse” research vessel, R/V Oceanus, leaves the WHOI dock in July 2007, more-than-fully loaded with equipment for the NTAS (Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station) project. In a…
Read MoreLaunching 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 as…
Read MoreSay “Cheese” Deep beneath the Pacific
The ride in the submersible Alvin is cozy, with just enough space for three people. Mark Spear, an Alvin pilot, snapped this shot standing up as the submersible returned to…
Read MoreStudies 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 design…
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 of five…
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 Laboratory,…
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
Sweaters and knit hats are typical clothing for scientists and a pilot traveling in the submersible Alvin. Temperatures in the (unheated) submersible drop as the depth increases—in this case, to 1.6 miles depth (2,660…
Read MoreHelicopter 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 become…
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 microbiological, molecular,…
Read MoreAngry Irminger
The research vessel Knorr, carrying WHOI scientists and international researchers, was several days into a month-long voyage to study the Irminger Sea when it smacked into an intense Atlantic storm.…
Read MoreA Jelly-Eat-Jelly World
Many kinds of gelatinous and transparent “jellies” inhabit the oceans, and some even eat other jellies. On the left—biting off more than it can chew—is Lampea pancerina, a species of…
Read MorePurple 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 light”)…
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, when…
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