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Blue Holes and Hurricanes
The dark blue patch in the bottom right of this aerial shot of Discovery Bay, Jamaica, is a “blue hole.” These large sinkholes formed as caves on land during the […]
Read MoreFollow the Turtles
Kara Dodge, a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI, tags a leatherback turtle during a 2016 expedition in Vineyard Sound. Dodge and WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya are the brains and muscle behind Read More
Island in the Stream
Jarvis Island is a tiny dot in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean right on the equator. This uninhabited 1¾-square-mile island rises barely 20 feet out of the […]
Read MoreAward-Winning Scientists
WHOI emeritus scientists Jack Whitehead (left) and Stan Hart conduct a geophysical fluid dynamics lab experiment in 1991. They inject a flow of light syrup (dyed blue) into a […]
Read MorePacked for the Ice Pack
Twin Otter planes are packed full of buoys, cables, and other equipment for flights from Banks Island north of Canada onto the Arctic Ocean ice pack. The planes carry 2,000 […]
Read MoreOil Collectors
WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy and colleagues have been collecting samples of oil washed up on beaches during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ever since the spill […]
Read MoreGreeting New Arrivals
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer checks for new growth on monitoring plates she has hung off a dock in Eel Pond. She’s looking for barnacles, hydroids, and other small […]
Read MoreStarry Seafloor
Starfish and shrimp graze on a microbial mat on a decaying giant sponge near the summit of Karasik Seamount beneath the Arctic Ocean. The scene was filmed during an Read More
Rainfall Prediction
New research on the global water cycle by WHOI scientists Laifang Li, Ray Schmitt, and Caroline Ummenhofer have found links between saltier regions in the Atlantic […]
Read MoreFrom Easter Island to Pito Deep
The Next Mining Frontier?
Hydrothermal vents deep on the seafloor spew chemical-rich fluids that sustain lush communities of deep-sea life. They also form rich deposits of valuable minerals, including metals and rare-earth elements […]
Read MoreWhale of a Web
Tomorrow is World Whale Day. WHOI post-doctoral researcher Randelle Bundy took this photo of an orca during a cruise off the coast of Antarctica to look at something on the […]
Read MoreFilter Feeders
Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma samples oysters at a farm site in Pleasant Bay in Orleans, Mass. Towns on Cape Cod are looking increasingly to shellfish […]
Read MoreInside A New Communications System
WHOI research engineer Lee Freitag, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, displays the electronics that is part of a long-range sound-based communication and navigation system that he and a team […]
Read MoreFine Fellow
Former WHOI Summer Student Fellow and current MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Benjamin Urann (left) and his mentor, WHOI geologist Henry Dick, examine slabs cut from rocks collected during a […]
Read MoreDigging Up the Past
Divers excavate artifacts during ongoing excavations of a ship that sank around 65 B.C. off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea. In August 2016, archaeologists […]
Read MoreEyes on the Deep
During the austral summer of 2016, WHOI scientists Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald joined the crew of the research vessel R/V Roger Revelle and traveled north from Antarctica to […]
Read MoreWomen of the Ocean
WHOI post-doctoral investigator Kara Dodge (left) and engineer Amy Kukulya made a series of trips this fall to track and film sea turtles using technology based on the Read More
Heavy Water
During the austral summer of 2016, WHOI scientists Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald traveled to Antarctica to study a physical ocean process known as Antarctic Bottom Water […]
Read MoreTo Boldly Go
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereid Under Ice (HROV NUI) returns from a dive to the deck of the icebreaker Polarstern in October of last year. WHOI senior scientist […]
Read MoreNet Work
WHOI Summer Student Fellow, Sara Hamilton, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ellie Bors, and WHOI lab assistant Julie Pringle (left to right) collect river herring specimens in a local […]
Read MoreWhere Currents Collide
In 1973, a string of mooring floats goes over the fantail of the WHOI research vessel Chain during the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE). Conceived by renowned physical oceanographer […]
Read MoreNereid Under Ice video montage
Alvin’s Legacy Runs Deep
On June 5, 1964, the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin was commissioned at the WHOI dock, in a ceremony attended by hundreds eagerly anticipating what the submersible would accomplish over […]
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