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A Surprising Turn
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tend to a surface buoy on the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. It was the latest expedition […]
Read MoreTaking the Leap
A New View
This image is of a photogrammetric model of the Rouse Simmons, a schooner that sank on Lake Michigan in 1912 during a violent storm as it was carrying a cargo […]
Read MoreOil and Sunlight Don’t Mix
An airplane sprays chemical dispersants on an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Two new studies by WHOI researchers found […]
Read MoreA Dunk on the Dock
WHOI Senior Engineer Matt Heintz steadies the remotely operated deep-sea vehicle Jason as it undergoes testing off the WHOI dock in 2016, after a $2.4 million upgrade funded by the […]
Read MoreWhat’s New Penguin?
Penguins have been in the news a lot this spring. In March, WHOI seabird ecologist Stephanie Jenouvrier was part of a team of scientists and engineers who discovered of a […]
Read MoreGetting a Feel for Ocean Science
This spring, WHOI geobiologist Joan Bernhard (left) and geologist Véronique Le Roux (right) introduced students at the Perkins School for the Blind to foraminifera, or forams: […]
Read MoreSampling Coral Health
WHOI scientist Amy Apprill collects a small sample of an elkhorn coral in November 2017 during an unprecedented joint expedition with Cuban and American scientists to study the Gardens of the Queens in […]
Read MorePulling Out All the Stops
Measuring Wave Energy
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate students Lizzie Wallace (left) and Rose Palermo prepare to deploy tiltmeters to measure the current produced by waves in Whale Bay, Bermuda, as part of […]
Read MoreTwo Ships
At Home in the Tentacles
A pink anemonefish peers out from the tentacles of a big anemone in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, where WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold was part of an international team that […]
Read MoreSmorgasbord from the Seafloor
Scientists collected these organisms from the bottom of the Bering Sea on a 2009 expedition. These polychaete worms and one mollusk (the light pink loop in the center) provide food […]
Read MoreCalm After the Storm
This kayak is souped up for science. Dubbed the JetYak, it’s motorized and remotely controlled, and it maneuvers easily in shallow water. WHOI scientist and engineer Peter Traykovski […]
Read MoreA Curious Octopus
Iceberg Alley
Where Hurricanes Are Born
Most Atlantic hurricanes begin to form over Africa, where hot, dry desert air meets cool, wet air over jungle regions farther south. In the seam between these high- and low-pressure […]
Read MoreTaking the Helm
Ready, Set, Research!
Partnership Education Program (PEP) student Kayla Jones (left) and guest student Hadley Clark geared up in the summer of 2017 to collect startlet sea anemones in Great Sippewissett […]
Read MoreFood for Giants
Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, often reaching 70 to 90 feet—the length of two school buses. But when it comes to food, these giant marine mammals […]
Read MoreAhoy, Alvin!
Fierce-Looking Fish
The ocean’s twilight zone teems with life. This little-known part of the ocean—200 to 1,000 meters (660 to 3,300 feet) below the surface—may have more fish biomass than in […]
Read MoreTsunami Warning System
Research engineer Lee Freitag and colleagues in the WHOI Acoustic Communications Group are developing a longe-range underwater sound-singalling system to warn of possible tsunamis. When a pressure sensor […]
Read MoreHome Together
WHOI’s research vessels Neil Armstrong (right) and Atlantis spend most of the year at sea and are rarely in their homeport of Woods Hole, Mass., at the same […]
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