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Open Season
The Woods Hole Ocean Science Exhibit Center, which has just opened for the 2008 season, is a great place to explore the diversity of WHOI’s research, learn a little […]
Read MoreBuried Treasure
“I never thought we would find such clean ice under that lava,” said WHOI geochemist Mark Kurz during a December 2007 expedition in Antarctica. Kurz, graduate student Read More
New at the Helm
New WHOI President and Director Susan Avery meets with the crew of research vessel Knorr in the ship’s galley during a home port call in Woods Hole […]
Read MoreYellow, Submarine…Float
Technicians and ship’s crew members deploy the top float of a subsurface mooring in the North Atlantic in Aprill 2006. Since 2002, WHOI researchers led by John Toole have […]
Read MoreSummer Fellows
No Vacancy
Scientific gear and underwater vehicles crowd the fantail of the research vessel Knorr during a 2001 expedition to explore the mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean. The first-generation […]
Read MoreDiplomatic Science
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (foreground) prepares to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist Susumu Honjo (standing) during a visit in 1975. An amateur marine […]
Read MoreFired Up
MIT/WHOI graduate student Desirée Plata prepares a flame torch to seal samples for carbon isotope measurements in her lab experiments. Her research has shown that differently manufactured Read More
Green House, White Out
The greenhouse at McMurdo Station is a respite from Antarctica’s angular whiteness. Full of humidity, musty scents, and color, it was started in 1989 with two abandoned Navy huts […]
Read MoreTerror in White
Winds in Cape Crozier, Antarctica, tend to stream down the slopes from Mount Terror. The volcano got its name from Captain James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea […]
Read MoreBuoying Whales
WHOI engineering assistants Kris Newhall, Will Ostrom, and Mike McCarthy prepare to deploy buoys during the North Atlantic Right Whale Monitoring Project in Cape Cod Bay in 2004.
(Photo […]
Feeding Time
Alex Pogue, a guest student working with paleoclimatologist Anne Cohen and geochemist Dan McCorkle, feeds baby quahogs in an experiment that tests the impact of ocean […]
Read MoreGoing Up
The crew of the research vessel Knorr recovers a “elevator” during a 2001 cruise in the Dive and Discover series. Seafloor explorers use the system in tandem with […]
Read MoreThe Hunt for Red Hot Hydrothermal Vents
At the Mercy of the Ice
Intriguing Discoveries
Guiding a Seafloor Lander
Underwater Microscope
WHOI biologists Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik examine plankton-filled water samples on a prototype version of the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) in Olson’s Woods Hole laboratory. The Cytobot, which is […]
Read MoreJump, Jive, and Wail
A plucky Adelie penguin hurdles a meltwater stream that has been stained brown by the acres of guano it has trickled through. “The Adelie is this really tough little […]
Read MoreGoing Mobile
A tiddlywinks game? A Jackson Pollock painting? No, it’s a mobile hanging in a skylight of the McLean Laboratory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic […]
Bearly Escaped
An Inupiat (native Alaskan) guide armed with a rifle stands watch while WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord works inside the tent to gather data during a recent sea […]
Read MoreSnow Packing
In April 2007, WHOI arctic research specialist Rick Krishfield (left) and engineering assistant Kris Newhall unloaded crates of scientific gear–ultimately bound for the North Pole–on Ellesmere Island at […]
Read MoreCSI: Pirate
From a few bits of wood, researchers hoped to prove the presence of a notorious criminal. The wood came from the bottom of the Atlantic, off the coast of North […]
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