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Daily Dose of Vitamins
Graduate student Erin Bertrand (right) and assistant scientist Mak Saito, biogeochemists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution, have found evidence that B12, an essential vitamin for people, also plays a critical…
Read MoreSlug-fest
Brightly colored slugs feed on a variety of sea whips and sea fans that populate tropical coral reefs. “They munch with their modified tooth,” said WHOI biology doctoral student Kristen…
Read MoreWHOTS Up?
Jeff Lord, a WHOI senior engineering assistant, directs the deployment of the WHOI Hawaii Ocean Timeseries Station II buoy. In cooperation with the University of Hawaii and its Hawaii Ocean…
Read MoreStretching for More
WHOI engineers and scientists developed the “Arctic winch” in order to reach up and take critical measurements of surface waters in polar oceans, while minimizing the risk of getting their…
Read MoreShow and Tell Day
WHOI senior engineer Ben Allen (right) shows off the REMUS laboratory to European colleagues participating in the the Galathea 3 expedition. Researchers from Europe made a port call in Massachusetts…
Read MoreJust a little squirt
Sea squirts are tunicates a type of sea life with a firm, rubbery outer covering called a “tunic,” from which the name derives. Sea squirts feed on algae and bacteria…
Read MoreWelcoming Party
Sophie (left) and Nancy Edson await on the WHOI dock for the return of Jim Edson marine meteorologist, husband, and father. A former WHOI scientist, now at the University of…
Read MoreSediment Straw
The WHOI-built Giant Gravity Core is deployed by technicians and crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy in the Bering Sea in June 2003. This sediment collector can…
Read MoreFortified with Essential Minerals
Dust storms can sweep iron-rich particles from the continents into the atmosphere, and these “mineral aerosols” then fall into, or are rained into, the oceans. Once in the water, the…
Read MoreNested In The Ice
A crane’s yellow arm floats above a bevy of yellow floats, retrieving a set of moored instruments from crushing broken ice in the Beaufort Gyre, north of Alaska, in 2005.…
Read MoreFab Four
An aerial view of the WHOI dock circa 1960 shows the Institution’s four research vessels at the time: (from left) Aries, Atlantis, Crawford, and Bear. Unlike many other ocean science…
Read MoreJason to the Rescue
During an expedition to the East Pacific Rise in May 2007, using the dexterous mechanical arms of the remotely operated vehicle Jason, pilots and scientists removed lava chunks from a…
Read MoreLibrary of Mud
Assistant Curator Ellen Roosen examines cores in the WHOI Seafloor Samples Laboratory, which houses some 24,000 core sections from more than 3,800 seafloor sites. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole…
Read MorePeeling Back the Layers
Sediments accumulate over time in layers on the seafloor, and they typically contain fossil shells of surface-dwelling microscopic marine animals. These shells incorporate radiocarbon and other isotopes from seawater that…
Read MoreTeachers Become Students
Arctic researcher Peter Winsor describes some ocean profiling equipment to a group of teachers during a tour for the WHOI Teachers Workshop. The workshops are held twice each year for…
Read MoreFishing with Sound
Scientists have adapted a low-frequency sonar system originally designed to survey seafloor geology to identify fish and zooplankton. The research team towed a low-frequency broadband imaging sonar near schools of…
Read MoreClimate Controlled
In their newly built laboratory, Joan Bernhard and Dan McCorkle seek to culture and grow single-celled organisms that live near the seafloor. Researchers have found that the chemical composition of…
Read MoreReady to Go Camping
Associate Scientist Hanumant Singh examines his new “Camper” the CAMera and samPlER sled a tethered, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that was specially developed for research under the Arctic ice cap.…
Read MoreNo Stone Unturned
WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy collects and examines oil-covered rocks at Nyes Neck in West Falmouth, Mass., following the April 2003 spill from the Bouchard 120 oil barge. Reddy and…
Read MoreBring ‘Em Home
Shipboard science services technician Ken Feldman (left) and ordinary seaman Patrick Neumann work to deploy a sea anchor as part of the process of “recovering” Alvin (bringing it back onto…
Read MoreFalling Water
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Casey Saenger soaks up the mist of the Oxafoss waterfall in Thingvellir National Park during the spring 2006 Geodynamics Field Trip to Iceland. The field trips…
Read MorePractice Makes Perfect
WHOI engineering assistants Kris Newhall (left) and John Kemp pose in August 2004 with their gear after practicing the deployment of the winch and tripod support frame that they use…
Read MoreTime to Come Out
Looking fresh and bright after a year in cold water, an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) emerges from Hudson Strait, onto the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Pierre Radisson. The ADCP,…
Read MoreUsing Rocks as Time Machines
Clare M. Williams a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, examines a rock collected from the seafloor to analyze its magnetic properties. Magnetism lets her unravel the patterns of lava flows to…
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