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Life Without Sunlight
In 1977, a group of scientists photographing the seafloor from R/V Knorr came across an astounding sight: hot water pouring from hydrothermal vents teeming with life. Their discovery […]
Read MoreFoul-bio
Jim Ryder, a senior engineering assistant at WHOI, inspects components of a mooring and buoy that have been biofouled—that is, coated with algae, barnacles, or other gripping organisms. Biofouling […]
Read MoreAn Admiral’s Visit
Rear Admiral (ret.) Mike Manazir (far right) and staff visited WHOI last month to tour labs and talk with WHOI scientists about their undersea research and technology development. The tour […]
Read MoreKeeping Tabs on the Kuroshio
Two graduate students monitor sampling operations in the South China Sea during a February 2017 expedition. WHOI physical oceanographer Louis St. Laurent and colleagues from National Taiwan University and […]
Read MoreSunset Deployment
With sun setting in the North Atlantic, WHOI technicians pay out a mooring from the fantail of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The mooring is part of the Pioneer […]
Read MoreSuper Sampler
WHOI engineer Daniel Gomez-Ibanez prepares WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Clio, for its recent sea trials from research vessel Neil Armstrong. The white cylinder Gomez-Ibanez is working on […]
Read MoreHeaded North
The research vessel Neil Armstrong left Woods Hole recently for its annual visit to the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array located in the Irminger Sea southeast of Greenland. […]
Read MoreSunset Sampling
Researchers aboard R/V Neil Armstrong launch a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) sensor during an April expedition off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., where shallow-water currents collide with […]
Read MoreUncovering a Buried Past
WHOI senior research assistant Ellen Roosen shows a group of visitors sediment cores from the Seafloor Samples Laboratory. The cores contain physical and chemical clues to the ocean’s past, […]
Read MoreGetting a Grip on Science
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Sophie Ruehr (Yale University, left) and Partnership in Education Program student Adrynne Jones (Eastern Michigan University, right) prepare to extract a sample of sediment from […]
Read MoreOpen to the Public
WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility will be a focal point of activities and displays during the Woods Hole Science Stroll this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The […]
Read MoreWho Grows There?
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer (left) collects plastic monitoring panels that have been hanging in the water off the WHOI pier, with help from guest student Nicole Pittoors (right) […]
Read MoreTwo Ships Bat
This summer marked the first time that the research vessels Atlantis and Neil Armstrong made a port call in Woods Hole at the same time, and the two […]
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
The rear deck of R/V Neil Armstrong was full of gear—including these 7,700-pound mooring anchors—as the ship left on a recent three-week cruise to recover and deploy instruments at […]
Read MoreLunch Buffet
WHOI research assistant David Bailey checks the algae used to feed shellfish larvae that he grows in WHOI’s Environmental Systems Lab. The shellfish are used by biologist Scott Lindell […]
Read MoreWelcome Aboard
A Team Effort
The new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Clio is the first AUV specifically designed to collect both biological and chemical samples from the ocean. The project’s principal investigators—engineers Mike Jakuba […]
Read MoreLearning Science at Sea
Partnership Education Program student Amber Durand (center, Howard University) reads WHOI Summer Student Fellows Luka Catipovic (left, UMass Amherst) and Julianna Renzi (right, University of Arizona) the step-by-step […]
Read MoreA Current Collaboration
Josh Woodrow, third mate on the WHOI research vessel Neil Armstrong, takes physical oceanographer Harvey Seim (right) and researcher Sara Haines of the University of North Carolina at Chapel […]
Read MoreA New View
A new underwater imaging system developed by WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory is being tested at submerged shipwreck sites in the U.S. and Europe. The technology enables the rapid […]
Read MoreWee Herring
These are tiny larvae of river herring. Herring used to run up coastal streams in far great numbers in springtime, returning from the ocean to spawn in fresh water. […]
Read MoreTriple Duty
R/V Neil Armstrong chief mate Derek Bergeron, second mate Mike Singleton, and third mate Josh Woodrow (left to right) monitor nearby boat traffic as Woodrow steers up the Hudson […]
Read MoreDynamic Graduate Students
Every summer since 1959, graduate students from around the world come to WHOI to participate in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship program. They are joined by prominent oceanographers, physicists, and […]
Read MoreCape Cod Flora
Pam Polloni (red sweater), curator of the MBL/WHOI Library Herbarium, shows visitors examples of holdings in the WHOI botanical collection, which dates back to the 1850s and documents the diverse […]
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