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Dance Against Guff
This year, as in years past, members of the WHOI staff joined with Falmouth High School students and local videographer Brian Switzer to speak out against bullying in the annual […]
Read MoreArctic Sound Duct
WHOI engineers led by Lee Freitag have developed and tested a long-distance communications system that would transmit and receive signals under Arctic Ocean sea ice. They exploited a […]
Read MoreDeep Science
WHOI geologist Adam Soule looks out of the pilot’s porthole on the human-occupied submersible Alvin during a dive near the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 2016. Soule, who is also the chief […]
Read MoreBoundary Conditions
At the ocean surface, heat and energy is exchanged between the air above and the water below. Every day, the sun rises and warms a thin layer of surface water. […]
Read MoreBranching Out
In two months, young kelp less than 1 millimeter long (left) will grow nearly one foot (right) and, in six months, will be over six feet and ready for harvest. […]
Read MoreCorals Reveal Past Climate
WHOI paleoclimatologist Konrad Hughen studies the history of Earth’s changing climate—using corals. The tiny living coral animals, known as polyps, lay down a new layer of calcium carbonate […]
Read MoreBreaking the Ice
When the WHOI-operated research vessel R/V Atlantis (right) docked in Manzanillo, Mexico, at the end of December, to prepare for its current cruise to explore the Pito Deep, it […]
Read MoreVince’s Cross
George Vince’s cross is a popular destination for visitors to McMurdo Station, the U.S. research base in Antarctica, and New Zealand’s Scott Base. MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student […]
Read MoreTower of Power
Undersea Acoustics
The marks on this figure are acoustic traces, the visual representations of underwater sounds recorded at sea sometime around 1960. Sounds such as these interfered with the U.S. Navy’s ability […]
Read MoreLine Test
A Visit to the Upgraded Jason
David Scully (right), chair of the WHOI Board of Trustees, visits with Tito Collasius, expedition leader for the remotely operated vehicle Jason, to hear about the deep-sea vehicle’s […]
Read MoreTracing the History of Hurricanes
WHOI guest student Dan Litchmore and research assistants Charlotte Wiman and Nicole D’Entremont (left to right) conduct a sonar survey of coastal ocean bottom sediments near the Caribbean island of […]
Read MoreSeal Whisker Sensor
Heather Beem earned her Ph.D. in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working biomimetics: using features observed in nature to inform the design of new technologies. She closely examined […]
Read MoreThe Great Calcite Belt
The Great Calcite Belt appears from space as a vast milky-white band in the ocean encircling Antarctica. Its color comes from rich concentrations of the mineral calcite in waters near the […]
Read MoreFriend and Foe
Pathway to Resilience
Uncovering Undersea Marvels
A green turtle makes its way through the diverse reef community on a seamount in the Galápagos archipelago. In 2015, an expedition led by WHOI geologist Adam Soule conducted […]
Read MoreParsing Microbial Proteins
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito inspects a new mass spectrometer in his lab. He’ll use the instrument for his research in proteomics, a branch of biochemistry involving the large-scale […]
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Eavesdropping on Whales
Retrieving a mooring off Nomans Land, an island near Martha’s Vineyard, are (from left) WHOI engineering assistants Steve Murphy and Jeff Pietro, and Tioga crew member Ian […]
Read MoreDay 1 for A2
The research vessel Atlantis II slid off the ways in Baltimore, Maryland, after being christened by WHOI biologist Mary Sears in 1962. The “A2,” as it became known, […]
Read MoreLooking Under the Stern
Even a ship as new as R/V Neil Armstrong has to undergo periodic inspection to make sure all is well. During an ongoing period in a shipyard in Charleston, […]
Read MoreStatus Updates from Sharks
Camrin Braun, a student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, tracks the behavior of blue and mako sharks, apex predators that maintain oceanic diversity. First, […]
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