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A Picture Worth a Thousand Cells
Research associate Alexi Shalapyonok (foreground), and plankton biologists Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson load the FlowCytobot onto the coastal boat Mytilus. Based on the principles of the […]
Read MorePoor Woman’s Umbrella
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Nicole Keller (Geology & Geophysics) takes a break from hiking the Barva volcano in Costa Rica in June 2008 to surround herself with the monstrous […]
Read MoreToo Crowded for Scallops?
Researcher Mary Carman recovered blades of sea grass and a lonely scallop covered with sea squirts, an invasive nuisance species, from Sengekontacket Pond on Martha’s Vineyard. Juvenile scallops […]
Read MoreNecessity for Invention
Henry Stetson, an assistant curator of paleontology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, was among the earliest appointments to the WHOI staff. As research associate in submarine geology, […]
Read MoreRaise Some Glass
Glassy, angular fragments of volcanic rock provided key evidence that volcanoes on the Arctic Ocean floor have exploded violently, defying the common assumption that there is too much […]
Read MoreUnderwater Maintenance
Keeping Up with Current Events
WHOI scientist emeritus Sandy Williams describes the Modular Acoustic Velocity Sensor (MAVS) to the 2008 class of WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellows. Williams and physical oceanographer Jim […]
Read MoreAmerican Mud
WHOI chemists Chris Reddy (left) and Liz Kujawinski take slices of mud from a sediment core extracted from the Columbia River margin. During a two-week expedition on […]
Read MoreBack from the Deep
Mark Johnson, an engineer at WHOI, holds the “D-tag” , a non-invasive temporary tag he designed that attaches to a whale and records ambient sounds and the whale’s […]
Read MoreLook and Learn
WHOI oceanographer emeritus George Hampson (white t-shirt, in the background) shows undergraduate students in the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship Program how to identify local jellyfish species, as they […]
Read MoreEyes on the Future of Oceanography
2008 marks the 40th year of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanograhy/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, one of the world’s premier marine science graduate programs. To mark the anniversary, […]
Read MoreWhat’s in That Box?
Every year, undergraduates are selected to spend the summer doing research at WHOI, in the Summer Student Fellowship program. Soon after they arrive, the students learn what it’s like […]
Read MoreGetting a Grip on the Arctic
WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart recovers a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sampling rosette from a remarkably ice-free Beaufort Sea in September 2004. Pickart and colleagues have been studying […]
Read MoreThe “Beta” Version
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Stephanie Waterman holds the “beta boat,” a unique instrument she built with physical oceanographer John Whitehead and engineer Keith Bradley for her […]
Read MoreCracking up in Greenland
This researcher stands where hours earlier there was a lake, filled with melted ice water. Once drained, through a massive crack, scientists could step inside the lake bed and learn what happened. Read More
Behind a wall, a historic find
This spring, two blackboards from 1986 were unearthed during renovations of Smith Building in Woods Hole, 22 years to the day they were sealed away behind a new wall. Gene […]
Read MoreUnder the volcano
Why study a volcano only on the surface, when you can also go under it? Fifteen MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students and their instructors explored the Venado caves near […]
Read MoreDeep Waters on the Move
Deep Atlantic Ocean circulation, part of the “global conveyor” system, strongly affects climate. WHOI, U.S. and international researchers launched more than 200 data-gathering floats into the North Atlantic between […]
Read MoreTag! You’re it!
Engineering Assistant Jim Dunn, aboard R/V Oceanus, attaches a tagline to a mooring in the Gulf Stream in November 2007. The mooring was deployed as but one part of a […]
Read MoreThe Muds of Time
Sediment accumulating on the bottom of the sea carries in it clues to the past, in the form of tiny shells, chemical compounds, and isotopes of elements that reflect climate […]
Read MoreBlue Clam in the Red Sea
Giant clams, Tridacna, can have colorful mantle tissue, including bright blue. Eight species of Tridacna, most threatened by over-harvesting, live in shallow waters of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. […]
Read MoreWhere icebergs roam free
In Ilulissat, a coastal town in western Greenland, people don’t have to walk far to see millions of tons of icebergs calving away from the glacier each year into Disko Bay. Scientists […]
Read MoreRecording ice movement
This summer, geologist Mark Behn drilled 8 feet down into Greenland’s ice sheet and left seismometers at the bottom of the holes to record ice cracking and movement. Researchers will […]
Read MorePolychaete pasta?
Magnified under a microscope, the tentacles of a terebellid —a marine polychaete worm, also called the “spaghetti worm”—look like an impossible tangle of pink yarn or vermicelli. Those sticky tentacles […]
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