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WHOI geologist Sarah Das spent days this summer in Greenland looking for the perfect waterfall. Not to photograph or to take a really cold swim. She needed falling […]

The research vessel Knorr rests in port in Nuuk, Greenland, in September 2007. The ship and crew arrived at the great island after deploying submerged autonomous launch […]

Richard Camilli, a chemist and engineer in the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, builds cutting-edge instruments for sensing molecules in seawater. His miniature mass spectrometer “Gemini” […]

Senior research specialist Jim Broda of the Geology and Geophysics Department displays sediment cores and rocks from the WHOI Seafloor Samples Lab to a group of visiting […]

WHOI glaciologist Sarah Das (climbing to reach a temperature sensor) spent July 2008 in Greenland studying lakes that form when the ice surface melts each year. The goal of this project, […]

A North Atlantic right whale dives astern of WHOI’s coastal vessel Tioga during a research cruise to study their feeding. Vulnerable to ship strikes and entanglement in fishing […]

WHOI’s Towed Digital Camera and Multi-Rock Coring System—more commonly known as TowCam—is loaded onto the research vessel Wecoma in Newport, Oregon in mid-August 2008. WHOI research associate Erich […]

WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold holds a fish otolith—an ear bone—that can serve as a natural tag to reconstruct the history of temperatures and seawater chemistry wherever a fish […]

There is an approved method of holding a penguin, with its head tucked under an arm. It’s called the rugby hold, so named because, from the front, the penguin’s torpedo-shaped […]

Greenland’s ice sheet is pockmarked with cryoconites, or holes filled with melted water. They form when the Sun melts darker dust and silt on the ice sheet, creating round or […]

Science and a full life go hand-in-hand for Rudolf Scheltema and Amélie Scheltema, researchers in the WHOI Biology Department who together have devoted over a century to […]

WHOI researchers Daniel Montlucon (left), Liviu Giosan (second from left) and two Inuit guides take a break from extracting sediment cores from a frozen Arctic lake. The research team, […]

Looking like bubbles or smoke rings, these half-inch chains, loops, and spheres are actually common planktonic animals called colonial radiolarians. Each soft shape is hundreds of single-celled animals embedded […]

Colored arrows show two of the major current systems flowing through the North Atlantic, with red representing the warm surface waters of the Gulf Stream, North Atlantic Current, and […]

WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Sentry, is launched from the research vessel Thomas Thompson in August 2008 during the AUV’s first scientific expedition. The vehicle surveyed and helped […]

MIT/WHOI graduate student Melinda Hall—now a research specialist in the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography—shares a laugh with the late Henry Stommel while collecting samples from […]