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Pilot and Beaked Whales off the Canary Islands
Tagging the whales to study their behavior
I’ll Follow the Sun
The Sun sets over the Atlantic Ocean near Andros Island, Bahamas, on April 19, 2008. Researchers from WHOI’s Acoustic Communications Group deployed and retrieved buoys—two are resting on the […]
Read MoreDifficult But Necessary Work
WHOI biologist and veterinarian Michael Moore (red jacket) and David Taylor, a retired high school biology teacher and WHOI guest investigator, prepare to perform a necropsy on a right […]
Read MoreFamily Reunion
It may sound odd for an oceanographic institution, but it is actually an unusual occurrence when more than one research vessel is docked at WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility. The […]
Read MoreWe Would Shout, and Swim About, the Coral that Lies Beneath the Waves
A vibrant patch of coral grows in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. WHOI geochemist Konrad Hughen, biologist Simon Thorrold, and colleagues are departing today […]
Read MoreCarving a Scientific Niche
Scientists walk along the edge of a large canyon carved by meltwater stream flow across the surface of the
Greenland ice sheet. The lines along the canyon wall show the […]
Eavesdropping on Whales
Bill Schevill, left, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics just after World War II. When Bill Watkins, right, joined him at WHOI in 1958, they began what […]
Read MoreCore Team
Former MIT/WHOI graduate student Mea Cook (now a Professor at Williams College) examines a sediment core taken from the Bering Sea, along with her advisors Lloyd Keigwin (middle) […]
Read MoreLines of Research
Derek Cavatorta, a WHOI summer student fellow in 2003, turns a winch to drag marine-grade rope lines across a piece of whale baleen (suspended in the tank). Cavatorta worked […]
Read MoreStand Outs
Stained with primulin dye and viewed under a microscope (magnfied 100X), cysts of the harmful algae Alexandrium fundyense and its less dangerous cousin Alexandrium tamarense stand out in yellow and […]
Read MoreHunkering Down
“I’ve never seen a cold penguin,” said ornithologist Grant Ballard of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. “It can be minus 30, and they’ll just be doing the same things […]
Read MoreFramed
It Was Forty Years Ago Today…
Howard Johnson (seated, center), president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Paul Fye (seated, right), director of WHOI, sign a memorandum creating the MIT/WHOI Joint Program […]
Read MoreGetting Ready to Cut the Umbilical
WHOI researchers secure harness lines and observe a test of the new Sentry autonomous underwater survey vehicle in April 2008, a day before heading out into the North Atlantic […]
Read MoreCaptain Hook
Hooked onto a safety line on the back of the Swedish icebreaker Oden, WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp hooks a line onto the Camper towed sampling vehicle after it […]
Read MoreForecasting the Spring Blooms
WHOI biologist Don Anderson (left) and oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy review the results of a computer simulation of the 2008 season for Alexandrium fundyense–a toxic form of algae–in […]
Read MoreCracking Down
Glaciologist Ian Joughin of the University of Washington poses near a large fracture in the center of a recently drained basin of meltwater on top of the Greenland ice […]
Read MoreMarching Toward an Uncertain Future
Four penguins march over a massive cornice on their way to a secluded part of the Cape Crozier colony, on the rim of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. The birds, […]
Read MoreProbing the Memory of Crystals
WHOI geologist Alison Shaw tightens the screws on a mount of small olivine crystals that she has prepared for examination in the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility on […]
Read MoreQuake Up Call
Seismologists John Collins (left) and Jeff McGuire inspect an ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) system from the national Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool, based at WHOI, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and […]
Read MoreSkin Tight
WHOI engineers Rod Catanach and Andy Billings fit the outer skin over one of the navigation transponders on the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, or ABE. The vehicle was […]
Read MoreSafety First
Diego Mello, first mate of the research vessel Oceanus, helps WHOI postdoctoral scholar Tim Shanahan (right) get into his ‘Gumby’ survival suit during a safety drill. Whether it […]
Read MoreContinent of Peace
A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters. Behind Byrd fly the 12 flags of the original Antarctic […]
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