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Blowing in the Wind
WHOI scientist Andrea Hawkes used plastic tubing, duct tape, and stockings to fashion devices to trap airborne sand blown in by Hurricane Irene in the summer of 2011. She installed […]
Read MoreClearing the Decks
Clearing ice from the decks of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy was a regular task for ship’s crew during a 2011 cruise into the Arctic. WHOI biologist Read More
Seafloor Life
This patch of clams, bacteria, and tubeworms was photographed on the ocean bottom in the Gulf of California, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart, further separating the […]
Read MoreWhatever Floats Your Research
Domitilo Nájera Navarrete stands ready to deploy a RAFOS float from the research vessel Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico. The glass-tubed floats sink to a specific depth and […]
Read MoreGlider Pioneer
Former WHOI engineer and founder of Teledyne Webb Research Doug Webb (right) chats with Center for Marine Robotics Director Jim Bellingham in front of a wall of Webb’s […]
Read MoreChanges Far Away
One of the most abundant zooplankton in Antarctic waters are Euphausia superba (pictured), commonly known as Antarctic krill. In the Southern Ocean, these two-inch-long, pink crustaceans are the main […]
Read MoreGravity of the Situation
Gravity waves are undulations at the interface between two fluids of different density (fresh and salty water, or warm and cool air, for example). WHOI acoustical scientist Andone Lavery […]
Read MoreA Royal Visit
WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder (middle) presented a rare deep-sea fish—called chimaera—to Japan’s Crown Prince Akihito during a visit to WHOI back in 1953 as WHOI Director Admiral Smith […]
Read MoreA Minke Breakthrough
During a 2012 expedition to make detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as SeaBED, researchers on board the Australian icebreaker […]
Read MoreA Shared Understanding
Representatives from WHOI and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) met recently in Woods Hole to renew a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions in support of the Read More
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Sink or Swim
Sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, Mass., test a remotely operated vehicle they built in a test tank in WHOI’s Smith Laboratory. It was part of a summer […]
Read MoreOctopus Antics
This photo of a Dumbo octopus, more than a mile down on the seafloor, graces the month of March in the 2018 WHOI Wall Calendar, now available for purchase at […]
Read MoreOn the Lookout
WHOI researcher and engineer Alex Bocconcelli searched for endangered blue whales off southern Chile earlier this year. Bocconcelli led a team that used temporary suction-cup tags equipped with sensors to track […]
Read MoreResting Spot
WHOI’s two campuses are a blend of new, sophisticated science laboratories and quaint, old houses and estates that still retain signs of their previous owners. Outside the Carriage […]
Read MoreGetting Their Feet Wet
New graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program boarded the research vessel Neil Armstrong for a 30-hour cruise to get their feet wet in their oceanographic careers. […]
Read MoreAll Hands on Deck
The hands of Raytheon engineer Brad Guerrero and WHOI engineers Jennifer Batryn and James Kuo (left to right) prepare a motorized profiler for deployment on the Global Irminger Sea Array in […]
Read MoreDISCO Diver
WHOI chemist Colleen Hansel swims over a reef off the southern coast of Cuba with DISCO (diver-operated underwater analyzer of superoxide), a new sensor she developed with chemist Scott […]
Read MoreTaking the Long View
A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Read More
Researchers’ Spat
Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agents Joshua Reitsma and Abigail Archer help distribute bags of shell that contain oyster seed (spat) to towns for municipal shellfish propagation programs. The Read More
Prepare for Turbulence
A radar view from the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force “Hurricane Hunter” (small white airplane icon) shows the eye of Hurricane Irma as the plane flies into the storm […]
Read MoreSeafloor Surprises
Before the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 by scientists aboard the Alvin submersible, the deep sea was thought to be devoid of life because of the lack of […]
Read MoreAn Oceanographic Pioneer
Elizabeth (“Betty”) Bunce waits for a sediment core to come up from the seafloor aboard the research vessel Chain circa 1958. Bunce (1915-2003) was a pioneering woman oceanographer. A geophysicist […]
Read MoreTravel Mug of Microbes
MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Weber uses a Niskin water sampling bottle to collect seawater samples from the Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) coral reef in Cuba. The samples will help scientists […]
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