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This Seaweed’s Not for Sushi
[From left] Biologists Don Anderson (WHOI), Deana Erdner (University of Texas and former member of Anderson’s lab) and Robert Dickey (U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory) traveled…
Read MoreCover Your Back
While the icebreaker Oden was smashing ice and trying to push it away from the bow, the ship’s officers also kept an eye on Oden’s aft, 107.7 meters (353 feet)…
Read MoreThe Clapper
A crew member on the research vessel Kilo Moana assists in the deployment of a “clap-trap” mooring during the summer 2004 Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) project off…
Read MoreGet a Grip
Working at the WHOI dock, summer student fellow Tess Brandon (Cornell University) and WHOI engineering assistant Amy Kukulya prepare a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle for a research trip out to…
Read MoreShare a Cup of Friendship
In January 2007, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and WHOI biologist Tim Shank made the first-ever phone call from outer space (the International Space Station) to inner space (the deep ocean…
Read MorePreserving the Future of Research
Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer (Brown University) holds a jar of juvenile crabs collected from the deep ocean floor along the East Pacific Rise. Working in the laboratory of WHOI…
Read MoreGrappling with a Bloom
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Christie Wood (foreground) and postdoctoral investigator Alfredo Aretxabaleta prepare to recover the conductivity-temperature-depth rosette during the NOAA Rapid Response cruise to study red tide in…
Read MorePortrait of a Species on the Brink
Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) populations have been severely depleted by humans throughout most of their range. Several large spawning aggregations still exist in the western part of its range near…
Read MoreThin Yellow Line
Chief Scientist John Goff (center, in blue T-shirt and jeans) and other scientific staff deploy a Vibracorer off the research vessel Knorr in August 2007. Goff, a senior research scientist…
Read MoreInquiring Minds Want to Know
WHOI senior research assistant Scott Cramer describes the tools available in the necropsy suite of the Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility to a group of journalists participating in WHOI’s annual…
Read MoreNot in the Usual Job Description
During oceanographic research cruises, it is customary for scientists to cook for the crew. Midway through this summer’s expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, chief scientist Rob Reves-Sohn found himself in…
Read MoreKeeping A Float
WHOI senior engineer Jim Valdes and physical oceanographer Amy Bower inspect an innovative new carousel device designed to automatically release a yellow float when warm water eddies pass. The carousel…
Read MoreSee Worthy
The REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle works just below the surface in Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve off Belize, while the crew (Faegon Villanueva and Tyrone Lambert, from Belize; and Glen…
Read MoreThe Best Place to Watch a Sunset
As the research vessel Knorr cruised from Woods Hole toward the continental shelf off New Jersey, the science crew admired the sunset and the end of the first day. From…
Read MoreCome and Get Me
The automonous underwater vehicle Puma waits for pickup on the surface of the Arctic Ocean, nestled in a slushy patch of ice in July 2007. The AUV, along with special…
Read MoreRocking the Boat
“When the ice gets tough, the best weapon we have is the ship’s heeling tanks,” said Thomas Strömsnäs, second officer of the icebreaker Oden, which carried WHOI researchers through the…
Read MoreCentral American Beauty
A baby reef squid found its way into the nets of WHOI researchers as they worked in the waters around Belize to study the connectivity of reef ecosystems. Biologists and…
Read MoreSometimes It’s The Smallest Things
Summer Student Fellow Amy Koid and CICOR Postdoctoral Scholar Jeremiah Hackett examine a test tube containing genetic material for studies of toxic algae during the summer of 2006. Researchers at…
Read MoreBlinded by the Light
After several days enveloped in 24-hour fog and gray skies in July 2007, all of a sudden, things changed for the research team on the WHOI-led expedition to the Arctic…
Read MoreOn the Job Training
On a July afternoon in 2006, summer student fellows Sophie Clayton (white shirt) and Juliana Gay (red shirt) launch a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instrument off the fantail of the research vessel…
Read MoreWarm Eddies in a Cold Sea
(Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) By Jack Cook, Kate Madin :: Originally published online November 30, 2007
Read MoreSetting a Trap
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler examines a neutrally buoyant sediment trap (NBST), while engineer Jim Valdes looks on. Buesseler and Valdes conceived and developed these free-floating devices to sink to a…
Read MoreLeashing a Jaguar
Helicopter pilot Sven Stenvall pulls and lowers a rope line toward Ola Andersson chief officer of the ice breaker Oden as he stands on deck. Andersson used the line to…
Read MoreNavigating the Old-Fashioned Way
Before computers and global positioning systems, mariners set their course with a sextant, a rotating instruments that use the sun and stars for celestial navigation. Many sailors still keep sextants on…
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