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Imaging a Hidden World
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis spearheaded the development of this instrument, called a Video Plankton Recorder, to capture images of the ocean’s multitudes of tiny, unseen life forms: Read More
Deep-sea Snapshot
This may look like a bucket of beach sand, but it’s actually a pristine sample of the ocean floor from 1,300 feet below the surface. During a 2003 expedition […]
Read MoreTrek to the Tower
The tower in the background stands a mile south of the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and it’s helping scientists track even the tiniest changes taking place in the North Atlantic. […]
Read MoreExplaining Coral Bleaching
While conducting field work in Hawaii, WHOI scientists Colleen Hansel (center) and Amy Apprill (third from left) participated in a media event about coral bleaching hosted by the […]
Read MoreBucket Brigade
Ocean scientists have access to sophisticated instruments to study the ocean, but sometimes, nothing beats a bucket for collecting water samples. For a study on phytoplankton, MIT-WHOI Joint […]
Read MoreA Yo-Yo of an Instrument
Brian Hogue (left) and Ben Pietro deploy a moored profiler from R/V Atlantis during a 2010 cruise led by WHOI physical oceanographer John Toole. The instruments travel up […]
Read MoreBig Gulp
In 2013 New England Aquarium whale researcher and WHOI guest investigator Salvatore Cerchio and his colleagues discovered some of the world’s rarest whales living off Madagascar. Read More
Life Deep Down Under
Fungal colonies grow on culture dishes inoculated with samples of sediments extracted from hundreds of feet beneath the seafloor. WHOI microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb explores what life forms may be […]
Read MoreSwift and Steady
Earlier this year, scientists and crewmembers aboard the R/V Tioga retrieved an underwater mooring from Nomans Land, a small island south of Martha’s Vineyard near the Martha’s Vineyard […]
Read MoreCoral Alignment
WHOI biogeochemist Konrad Hughen aligns segments of coral skeleton cored with a special underwater drill from a boulder coral off an island in the Chagos archipelago in the […]
Read MoreA SEA-worthy Reunion
Four WHOI employees who are alumni of the Sea Education Association’s SEA Semester, found themselves aboard the R/V New Horizon in 2012. From left, mooring technician Meghan Donohue, […]
Read MoreServing Up Synechococcus
Kristen Hunter-Cevera cultured different types of colorful phytoplankton called Synechococcus, found in seawater samples from WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO). Hunter-Cevera, who recently earned her Ph.D. in […]
Read MoreLearning by Jetyak
Students in a small motorboat (left) use a gas-powered kayak known as a Jetyak to measure dissolved methane and other water properties of the North River in Marshfield, Mass., this […]
Read MoreSeeing Into the Arizona
WHOI Alvin pilot Mike Skowronski (left) took time off from his “day job” to pilot a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, as […]
Read MoreHigh-pressure Sip
The manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle Jason positions an Isobaric Gas-Tight sampler (IGT) to collect bacteria-rich fluids flowing from a hydrothermal vent site in the Pacific […]
Read MoreCorals and Their Microbial Neighbors
Laura Weber, Ph.D. student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies the microscopic organisms that inhabit the seawater surrounding coral reefs. She wants to know how corals and microbes living […]
Read MoreWoman’s Work
After a long day deploying scientific equipment from the deck of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer, WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue waits in the darkness for the go-ahead […]
Read MoreJason Gets An Upgrade
WHOI engineers examine the underside of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason while prepping it for tests on the WHOI dock. A $2.4 million upgrade by the National Science Foundation (NSF) […]
Read MoreBig Fish Bite?
WHOI physical oceanographer Amy Bower uses Range and Fixing of Sound (RAFOS) floats like this one to track the movement of water in the ocean. The float Read More
Core Principles
WHOI biogeochemist Konrad Hughen (left) and research assistant Justin Ossolinski use a special underwater drill to take a core sample from a boulder coral off an island in the […]
Read MoreBack on Deck
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Bennett Lambert (left) and senior engineering assistant Sean Whelan return topside to the coastal research vessel Tioga after diving at the WHOI-operated Martha’s Vineyard […]
Read MoreSetting Her Sights on Science
WHOI senior scientist Britt Raubenheimer gets help recovering an ultrasonic sensor she deployed near Duck, N.C., to measure beach erosion and waves during Hurricane Matthew. Raubenheimer lost her […]
Read MoreLeave a Light On
WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz sets a trap containing a small LED light above a coral reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands to capture fish and invertebrate larvae. During the […]
Read MoreRobots and Red Tide
Nauset Marsh on Cape Cod occasionally develops harmful algal blooms (HABs) that can shut down shellfishing. To better understand how blooms spread, WHOI biologists Read More