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SEA Jake Peirson Summer Cruise
New graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program gather alongside ship’s crew on the deck of the Corwith Cramer on June 24, 2008. They would later set sail […]
Read MoreA Scientist’s Patriotic Duty
On June 5, 2008, WHOI senior scientist Scott Doney (center) testified before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology. […]
Read MoreAn Expedition Wa-a-ay Down Under
Ice Water
Each summer, meltwater ponds and lakes form on top of the Greenland ice sheet, as sunlight and warm air melt the surface. This meltwater can sometimes penetrate the […]
Read MoreTowering Above the Atlantic
Texas Tower #2 rises above Georges Shoal—about 100 miles offshore from Cape Cod—in 1955. Built by the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War, the tower was a […]
Read MoreRock-Solid Evidence
In a WHOI laboratory, geophysicist Rob Reves-Sohn (left), geologist Adam Soule, and graduate student Claire Willis analyze samples of seafloor deposits brought back from the Gakkel Ridge. […]
Read MoreEarth, Wind, and Fire in Antarctica
By Hugh Powell :: Originally published online June 25, 2008
Read MoreWater World
Cell Counts
On the research vessel Oceanus in May 2008, the backside of a hatch to the lower decks serves as the bulletin board and presentation backdrop for oceanographer Dennis […]
Read MoreWash Up Before Supper
Researchers clean the muck from their sensors at the end of a day in the Waves Over Really Muddy Seafloors Experiment (WormsEx) along the Louisiana coast. Scientists affiliated with […]
Read MoreThose Were the Days
Engineers and students from the WHOI Deep Submergence Laboratory gather around the first full-scale Jason remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Blake Building in 1990. Now in […]
Read MoreGetting a Grip on Biogeochemistry
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch (top) and chemistry research assistant Justin Ossolinski recover a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette from the Sargasso Sea in April 2008. Marine […]
Read MoreHalf-sunny or Half-cloudy?
Fair weather meets foul late on an August 2004 day in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska. Since 2003, WHOI researchers have been examining the dynamics and changes in […]
Read MoreA Whale of a Good Time
Kindergarten children from the Saint Margaret Regional School (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) enjoy listening and learning about whales during a visit to the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center in May […]
Read MoreSt. Louis Has Nothing on this Arch
A zodiak carries a group of WHOI Associates and other ecotoursts through an iceberg arch off Antarctica. WHOI scientists Susan Humphris and Pat Lohmann from the Read More
Arctic Ecoysystem Voyage
Corals Branching Out
WHOI biologists Lauren Mullineaux (left) and Susan Mills hold a specimen of Paragorgia, a species of coral that they collected for research from the
summit of Manning Seamount […]
A Perfect Pond
A conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD) rosette
is lowered into the East Greenland Coastal Current in August 2004. Researchers from WHOI and the Johns Hopkins University investigated
the origin and structure […]
A different era of oceanography
The research vessel Caryn waits out the winter at a snowy Woods Hole dock in the 1950s. The vessel made 110 cruises on behalf of WHOI research from 1948-1958. […]
Read MoreLearning a lot from a little
This dinoflagellate, the algae Dinophysis, was collected in the icy waters of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. WHOI biologists are interested in the diversity and activity of protists (protozoa and […]
Read MoreKeeping Track of the Shifting Sands
WHOI research associate Peter Schultz conducts a survey of the shoreline near La Jolla, Calif., using a dolly mounted with a global positioning system receiver. Researchers from WHOI […]
Read MoreWhat a Rush
Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Surface melt plays a significant role in the overall dynamic movements of the […]
Read MoreCh-Ch-Changes…
When scientists observed and analyzed four decades of hydrographic data, they found that tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters had become saltier over the course of 40 years (shown in […]
Read MoreLogging a Day in the Life of a Whale
Whale specialist Natacha Aguilar De Soto of the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands) and WHOI bio-engineer Mark Johnson analyze large files of numerical data collected by digital tags […]
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