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Happy as a Clam
Few things make a deep-sea biologist like Tim Shank happier than obtaining samples of organisms from a hydrothermal vent site on the seafloor. These giant clams were retrieved […]
Read MoreSeafloor Warp and Woof
An autonomous underwater vehicle called ABE—for Autonomous Benthic Explorer—systematically “flew” over the seafloor on the volcanic Mid-Atlantic Ridge, midway between Africa and South America, photographing the ocean bottom. […]
Read MoreShrimp and Mussel Stew
Shrimp swarms and abundant mussels populate the Logatchev hydrothermal vent field about 3,000 meters (more than 9,800 feet) deep on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, about halfway between the Caribbean Sea […]
Read MoreWhales Are Where?
WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner and acoustic analyst Julianne Gurnee of the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center review data received from a whale monitoring buoy outside New York Harbor. […]
Read MoreBad Sign on a Good Beach
WHOI, Hollywood, and the Boston Pops
Longtime WHOI employee Dick Edwards, a Navy-trained explosives expert, wires dynamite into the mouth of the mechanical shark used in “Jaws,” the 1975 classic movie about a terrifying Read More
A Cold Winter Dive
On a midwinter dive, visiting diver Giorgio Caramanna had to wear gloves to re-install an instrument called the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) at WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal […]
Read MoreA Slice of the Ocean
During a visit to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, two future ocean scientists watch a demonstration of how salinity affects the density of water. Higher salinity makes water denser. […]
Read MoreNeil Armstrong Takes New York
The research vessel Neil Armstrong, shown here working off the North Carolina coast on the Processes driving Exchange at Cape Hatteras (PEACH) project, will participate in Fleet Week in New York City […]
Read MoreLife Below the Waterline
WHOI biologists Peter Wiebe (standing), Joel Llopiz (left) and Chrissy Hernandez, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, watch as data from sensors on the hull of R/V Neil Armstrong scroll […]
Read MoreTo the Breaking Point
Engineering assistant Barbara Callahan operates the computer interface of a hydraulic tensile machine in WHOI’s rigging shop, as shop manager Rick Trask looks on. Callahan and Trask were testing […]
Read MoreUnder Ice
The lights of the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereid Under Ice (NUI) shine beneath an ice floe during a 2016 cruise to search for life on the Arctic […]
Read MoreAfter Dark in the Park
A team of researchers worked well past sunset on the shore of Yellowstone Lake in 2016 to section and catalog a core they had taken from the lake bed earlier […]
Read MoreDeep Garden
The research vessel Atlantis and human-occupied submersible Alvin were in the far north in July 2002 on a cruise supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The mission was to […]
Read MoreStudent Out of Water
Alexandra Labella, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, analyzes a sediment core sample in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly. Labella is one of many students who work at […]
Read MoreSunrise In The Arctic
Mother on Board
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue changes the rigging on top of a subsurface float, part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array in the South Atlantic Ocean. In […]
Read MoreThe Freshest Sushi
Research cruises, like life, are full of surprises. The ocean can offer up unexpected storms—or in this case, the freshest sushi you’ll ever taste. Aboard the WHOI-operated research vessel Read More
Associated With Ocean Science
Kathy Patterson, manager of the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center, gives a demonstration about water density at a recent reception for members of the WHOI Associates Program and supporters. The […]
Read MoreThe Real Big Blue
Sometimes you have to get into the remote environment where marine organisms live to study them: WHOI biologists Larry Madin and Richard Harbison were part of a small group in […]
Read MoreScientist Of Many Hats
In the 1950s William C. Schroeder was photographed displaying a deep-sea fish called a chimaera that he had collected. Schroeder—a fisheries biologist who held positions at WHOI and Harvard […]
Read MoreDiving Into the Past
WHOI Archivist Dave Sherman examines film captured during the 153rd dive aboard the Human-Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin. Alvin was commissioned in 1964 and has been instrumental in exploring ocean […]
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