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All Hands on Deck
The foredeck of the Canadian icebreaker Louis St. Laurent during a mooring deployment in the Arctic Ocean during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment. (Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods […]
Read MoreStanding Tall
The Air-Sea Interaction Tower, part of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, allows scientists to deploy instruments that monitor the relationship between winds and waves in all weather conditions. […]
Read MoreBarnacle Beauties
Underwater Reconnaisance
Digging for Data
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sheri Simmons collects samples in Salt Pond in Falmouth, Mass., for studies of a previously unknown bacterium that incorporates magnetic minerals to make […]
Read MoreColorful Crystals
What’s in a Whale?
WHOI chemist Emma Teuten applied classical chemistry techniques, some kitchen skills and high-tech equipment to analyze the specific compounds found in the blubber of a True’s beaked whale found […]
Read MoreMasaya Volcano
Scientific Sleuths
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Rhian Waller (left), University of Washington graduate student Deb Glickson, and colleagues tried to witness an undersea volcanic eruption in action on the Juan de Fuca […]
Read MoreCurve Appeal
The 35,570-square-foot biogeochemistry building, now called the Stanley W. Watson Laboratory, under construction in 2005. The Watson Lab is one of two new laboratories on the Institution’s Quissett Campus, […]
Read MoreRose Bowl
Crabs thrive in a new vent site on the Galapagos Rift found in 2005. Its concave shape and lineage to previously found sites called Rose Garden and Rosebud–suggested the name […]
Read MoreSeafloor Settlers
Coring for Clues
WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan and colleagues cruise through a man-made canal in the Danube Delta in search of sites to take sediment cores. The history of the 6,000-year-old river […]
Read MoreUp, Up and Away
Muddy Waters
Alexis Jackson (in blue) and Carly Strasser, WHOI Summer Student Fellows, sieve mud in Barnstable Harbor (MA) to collect juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) for population studies.(Photo by Tom […]
Read MoreSteering Clear
Ship strikes threaten the survival of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. About 300 to 350 animals remain. This photo was taken in 2004 during fieldwork in the Bay […]
Read MoreGeodynamics Program in Photos
Vocal Volcano?
A Hulk of a Different Sort
In a painting of a hydrothermal chimney named Hulk on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a camera mounted on the remotely operated vehicle Jason II captures high-resolution images using light […]
Read MoreSome Things Don’t Mix
Joint Program student Mike Braun works on an experiment using freshwater and saltwater flows. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreTiny Bugs
A juvenile copepod, Calanus glacialis, collected on a recent Arctic cruise, is about the size of the tip of a pencil. The shrimp-like animals are an important part of the […]
Read MoreDeep Diver
The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was the first deep AUV developed by WHOI engineers. With its ability to maintain a stable and constant altitude over changing seafloor topography, ABE can […]
Read MoreInto the Future
Scientists and engineers check out the model of the personnel sphere for the Alvin replacement, expected in 2009. The mock-up enables users as well as engineers to visualize changes […]
Read MoreA Wall of Mud
Ellen Roosen, Susan Humphris, and Jim Broda (left to right in this panorama) go over plans, now completed, for expanding the sediment core library at WHOI’s McLean Laboratory. The […]
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