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Reefscapes
WHOI coral reef ecologist Amy Apprill tends to a hydrophone setup used as part of an experiment in the U.S. Virgin Islands to study how free-swimming coral larvae […]
Read MoreBeneath the Surface
A CTD—a device that measure the conductivity, temperature and depth of seawater—descends through the water of glacial fjord in Greenland. Data from the instrument will help a team led […]
Read MoreImperial Honor
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (seated, center) prepared to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist and current scientist emeritus Susumu Honjo (standing, left) during a visit […]
Read MoreAsa of All Trades
In 1972, research technician Asa Wing sewed yards of fine-mesh material into a giant, conical sampling net for WHOI biologist Richard Backus, The Falmouth Armory building provided the only […]
Read MoreExport Expert
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right) deployed a sediment trap from the research vessel Roger Revelle in the fall of 2018 during the EXPORTS expedition in the Gulf of Alaska. EXPORTS (Export […]
Read MoreDrilling Down
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Matthew Osman (left) and U.S. Ice Drilling Program driller Mike Waszkiewicz move an ice core barrel into place during a storm in West Greenland. Osman […]
Read MoreA Look Back
In January 1980, the human-occupied submersible Alvin made its 1,000th dive to the seafloor during an expedition to the Galapagos Rift. In November 2018, Alvin made its 5,000th […]
Read MoreHoled Up
As part of his Semester at WHOI (SAW) working with WHOI scientist Joel Llopiz’s lab, Matt Stefanak, a senior at Middlebury College, collected fish larvae in St. John, […]
Read MoreJust Another Day
The morning after the human-occupied submersible Alvin made its historic 5,000th dive, it made it’s 5,001st and continued its 50-plus years of scientific research and exploration of the deep […]
Read MoreDive Partner
In July 1994, the 105-meter (345-foot) research vessel Yokosuka carrying the Shinkai 6500 submersible, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), visited WHOI after a joint expedition […]
Read MoreDepth of Field
Whales Have Their Own Dialects
A Kiss from a Clam
Giant clams of the Tridacna genus have muscular mantles whose tissue can come in splendid colors, such as this bright blue. Eight species of Tridacna, most threatened by overharvesting, live […]
Read MoreListening in the Depths
Crabs Help Solve Mystery
Fiddler crabs answered a question marine chemists and ecologists have long pondered: Does oil still have impacts on wildlife decades after it was spilled in a salt marsh? Researchers […]
Read MoreBottling Parasites
2018 WHOI Summer Student Fellow Emily Maness (foreground) and undergraduate summer student Sarah Lott collect water from Salt Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts. In the water are single-celled parasites that […]
Read MoreRobotic Trailblazer
Shortly after a WHOI-French-led expedition found the wreck of Titanic on the seafloor in 1985, the Navy commissioned a return mission to test a small remotely operated vehicle […]
Read MoreResplendent Coral
Skeletons in the Corals
Nathan Mollica (left), a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, and WHOI scientist Weifu Guo examine a sample cored from the skeleton of a coral. They put […]
Read MoreDeep Sea Stamp of Approval
Shuffling the Deck on Deck
Graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program play a few rounds of cards in the galley aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong. They were returning to port after […]
Read MoreThe Grinch who Stole Sentry
The deep-sea exploration vehicle called Sentry has been festooned with decorations and “faces” over the years, often thanks to WHOI engineer Justin Fujii whose artistic medium is electrical tape. Sentry is an autonomous underwater vehicle […]
Read MoreStar of Antarctica
A WHOI scientific team follows a ridge above the Koettlitz Glacier en route to conducting research in Antarctica in December 2007. The sun is due north over the Ross Sea, […]
Read MoreCalling All Whales
In 1949, WHOI biologist William Schevill (right) and his wife Barbara Lawrence used a crude hydrophone and a dictating machine to record beluga whales from a small boat […]
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