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With 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 for Climate…
Read MoreInvasion of “Alien Vomit”?
Originally published online February 13, 2014
Read MoreStrolling through an Arctic Town
Sarah Das and Mark Behn, researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, work on Greenland’s ice sheet. To get there, they pass through Ilulissat, a coastal village north of the Arctic…
Read MoreA 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 biologist’s flow cytometer,…
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 leaf of…
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 dangle from eelgrass…
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, he designed…
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 pressure and…
Read MoreUnderwater Maintenance
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin for the national oceanographic community. Alvin, built in 1964 as the world’s first deep-ocean submersible, has made more than…
Read MoreKeeping 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 Churchill led the…
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 the R/V New…
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 motions as…
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 peer over…
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, WHOI…
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 to…
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 the flow of waters…
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 experiments on how ocean…
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. Sarah…
Read MoreBehind 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 Terray had authored…
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 Arenal…
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 1994…
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.…
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