Multimedia Items
Osprey Reality TV
WHOI multimedia specialist Matt Barton installs a camera above an osprey nest outside of the Rinehart Coastal Research Laboratory on the Institution’s Quissett campus. For the sixth […]
Read MoreMom Always Said to Bundle Up
The Clothing Distribution Center of the U.S. Antarctic Program in New Zealand provides one-stop shopping for polar explorers. If you are going south on their watch, then you are […]
Read MoreTo the Abyss on a Wire
Terrible Twos
Seeing-Eye Diver
Four Square
Testing Eyesight
Engineer Josh Eaton (lower left), biologist Cabell Davis (upper left), and postdoctoral scholar Qiao Hu maneuver the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) for calibration testing in a tank […]
Read MoreNeither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night
WHOI mail distribution supervisor Patrick Harrington (foreground), with help from Eric Drange, works to sort and deliver the institution’s mail. In 2007, the WHOI mailroom processed more than 63,000 pieces […]
Read MoreBelly Button Fungus
Tiny clumps of lichen bring life to the rocks around Igloo Spur in Antarctica. Named Umbilicaria for its belly-button shape, this lichen grows in only a handful of places […]
Read MoreListening for Quakes
Marine seismologists/geophysicists John Collins (left), Beecher Wooding (center), and Bob Detrick examine ocean-bottom seismometers in a WHOI laboratory. The trio along with colleagues from the Scripps […]
Read MoreSmoke on the Water
Leader of the Pack
Bruce Strickrott, Alvin pilot and expedition leader for a winter 2007 cruise on the research vessel Atlantis, prepares for the launch of the submersible into the Pacific Ocean […]
Read MoreA Growing Concern
High school student Ryan Pettit (Falmouth Academy) loads a coral sample into a scanning electron microscope at the Marine Biological Laboratory, with supervision from WHOI climate scientist Anne […]
Read MoreNumbers
The REMUS 12.75 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is loaded onto the research vessel Knorr in 2004 for one of its first tests at sea. Now known as REMUS […]
Read MorePavement for the Seafloor
Heather Coleman, a graduate student from the University of California at Santa Barbara, examines a chunk of natural asphalt retrieved by the Alvin submersible from the Santa Barbara […]
Read MoreThe Seafloor in Microcosm
Scientists can’t observe magma moving beneath the seafloor, so WHOI geologist Glenn Gaetani makes his own. He subjects tiny capsules of powder (with a composition similar to the rocks […]
Read MoreAir-Sea Interaction
WHOI plankton ecologist Heidi Sosik (center, back to the camera) stands on the fantail of the coastal research vessel Tioga and explains ocean observatories and coastal dynamics to reporters […]
Read MoreWhich One of These is Not Like the Others?
Longtime WHOI employeenow officially a retiree who forgot that he’s not supposed to be at workGeorge Tupper works on a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) water sampler in a Woods Hole […]
Read MoreForesight
Expedition leader Will Sellers evaluates oncoming ocean swells as the crew prepares to lower the remotely operated vehicle Jason to the Pacific’s Juan de Fuca Ridge. Now in […]
Read MoreOccupational Hazard
This fluid temperature logger got a little too close to a hydrothermal vent and melted; or better to say, the vent got too close to the logger. Deployed in […]
Read MoreSomewhere, Under the Fogbow
In between launches of underwater vehicles in July 2007, Peter Winsor and researchers on the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition lowered the conductivity-temperature-depth probe in order to look for […]
Read MoreLabor of Love
Nathaniel “Nat” Corwin prepares equipment for a chemical analysis of samples in WHOI’s Bigelow Laboratory, circa 1960. Nat was widely regarded for his painstaking analyses of the nutrients […]
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