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Belly Button Fungus

March 30, 2008

Tiny clumps of lichen bring life to the rocks around Igloo Spur in Antarctica. Named Umbilicaria for its belly-button shape, this lichen grows in only a handful of places […]

Great Way to Spend a Summer Day

July 22, 2007

Researchers and ship crewmembers from the icebreaker Oden shovel and pick their way through ice and snow to open a hole to the Arctic Ocean. WHOI engineers tested new underwater […]

Holes

July 11, 2007

A hawsehole in the bow of the icebreaker Oden frames the work of researchers and ship’s crew as they make a hole in the ice for launching underwater vehicles. […]

Robotic Explorer

July 1, 2007

The new Puma autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) uses sonar, lasers, and chemical sensors to search wide areas of the ocean floor to detect the telltale signals from hydrothermal vent plumes. […]