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Creature Feature

April 8, 2006

The mollusk Glaucus atlanticus, about the size of a quarter, was photographed in a WHOI lab after its capture off the coast of Panama in March. The mollusk hangs upside […]

Mixing It Up

April 7, 2006

A sled used to inject a nontoxic dye into the interior of the ocean for studies of how ocean layers mix is deployed from Research Vessel Oceanus in early 2001 […]

The 274-foot research vessel Atlantis serves as the support vessel for the three-person submersible Alvin, which can dive to 4,500 meters (14,764 feet). During recovery, two certified swimmers help bring […]

Frozen in Time

April 4, 2006

WHOI researchers found these barnacle larvae, called cyprids, frozen into ice on the shores of Buzzards Bay, Mass. The larvae (about half the diameter of the head of a […]

ASIMET Buoy Designs

February 4, 2006

Development of Plankton Sampling

January 25, 2006

In Forgotten Whalebones, the Past is Remembered and Recorded

January 16, 2006

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sentry

January 9, 2006

WHOI’s free-swimming robot Sentry completed its 500th dive on October 16, 2018. The autonomous underwater vehicle has used its sonar systems to help scientists map the seafloor, track the Deepwater […]

The Ocean Conveyor

A global system of currents, often called the Ocean Conveyor, carries warm surface waters from the tropics northward. At high latitudes, the waters cool, releasing heat to the atmosphere and […]

A Shelfbreak Observatory for Coastal Oceanography

January 1, 2006

Originally published online January 1, 2006

Life at Lonar Crater

Under Construction

December 21, 2005

Arctic Ice

November 28, 2005

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that, over the past three decades, the extent of Arctic sea ice (the area of the Arctic Ocean with at […]

Lights, camera, action at the Juan de Fuca Ridge

November 23, 2005

The deep-sea light post was used in tandem with a high-definition video camera from the University of Washington to capture images of octopi, tubeworms, crabs, and super-heated fluids flowing from […]