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Peach Pies
WHOI physical oceanographer Magdalena Andres conducts a final check of a Current and Pressure recording Inverted Echo Sounder (CPIES) before deploying the instrument from the research vessel Neil […]
Read MoreA Dunkable Laboratory
WHOI biologist Craig Taylor, left, and WHOI engineer Fred Thwaites work on the latest generation in a family of instruments called SIDs—Submersible Incubation Devices. Because it’s impossible to fully […]
Read MoreUnderwater at the Top of the World
WHOI geochemist Chris German (left) and Louis Whitcomb, chair of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, along with Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred Wegner Institute, display Explorer’s Club […]
Read MoreIlluminating the Ocean with Sound
WHOI’s new research vessel Neil Armstrong is equipped with an EK80 broadband acoustic echo sounder. It uses a wide range of sound frequencies to give scientists the ability to identify […]
Read MoreGetting Their Feet Wet
WHOI engineering assistant Chris Basque (foreground) pays out a tag line from the stern of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to a 62-inch flotation sphere he just helped deploy while other members […]
Read MoreLights, Ice, Action
Ice lights illuminate the sea surface ahead of the R/V Neil Armstrong last summer off the coast of Greenland. The cruise, led by WHOI physical oceanographer, Bob Pickart […]
Read MoreA Deep Look
Earth = Ocean Day
As the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once pointed out, “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.” The ocean is the planet’s largest living […]
Read MoreSix if by Air
WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill traveled to Chile with a multi-institutional team recently to study blue whales that gather off the coast of Patagonia each year. Among the equipment they […]
Read MoreOceanography in Action
Technicians on the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Researcher III retrieve a turbulence profiler from the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of Taiwan. In a project sponsored by the […]
Read MoreCollecting Critical Data
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Thomas DeCarlo recovers a data logger that recorded temperatures on Dongsha Atoll during a recent bleaching event. Water temperatures on Dongsha, a coral reef ecosystem […]
Read MoreA Star of the Food Web
A diatom chain of the genus Thalassionema is one of thousands of images captured each hour by the Imaging FlowCytobot, an automated, submersible microscope, operating continuously at the Read More
All Aflame
A sample is flame-sealed by Kathryn Elder for radiocarbon analysis at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility at WHOI. The facility provides a range of radiocarbon […]
Read MoreDrama in the Deep
Red-hot magma and a plume of sulfurous fluid spew from the West Mata Volcano on the seafloor 110 miles southwest of Samoa in May 2009. At almost 4,000 feet below […]
Read MoreMixing & Melting
A new study changes our understanding of how lavas are formed at volcanic arcs, and may have implications for the study of earthquakes and the risks posed by […]
Read MoreFamily Fun
During a school field trip to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, Paul Jakuba gets a boost from his teacher Shaylee Dutra, to get a better look at giant tube worms, […]
Read MoreFalmouth to Falmouth
WHOI is located in Woods Hole, one of eight villages in the town of Falmouth, Mass. WHOI research associate Steve Pike packed a mobile van to be shipped the next […]
Read MorePreparing for the Season
Biologist Heidi Sosik briefed WHOI volunteers recently on the new NSF-funded Long-term Ecological Research site that she helped establish off the Northeast U.S. coast. The NSF-funded site will extend […]
Read MorePresidential Vision
Hon. Peter Thomson (right), President of the 71st United Nations General Assembly, visited WHOI recently to explore the possibility of greater collaboration in advance of The Ocean Conference being […]
Read MoreThe Plastisphere
You’re looking at a close-up of a remnant of a plastic trash bag collected from the Atlantic Ocean—magnified 10,000 times by a scanning electron microscope. Tracy Mincer, a biogeochemist at […]
Read MoreIrminger Sea Recovery
In 2016 in the Irminger Sea near Greenland, WHOI Deck Operations Leader John Kemp (left of floats at the deck edge), other members of the WHOI Mooring Group, […]
Read MoreGuiding Ocean Gliders
From the Coleman and Susan Burke Operations Room in LOSOS, Diana Wickman and WHOI’s other ocean glider pilots can monitor vehicles “flying” underwater thousands of miles away. When a […]
Read MoreGoing, Going, Gone
Corals on Dongsha Atoll, a remote coral reef ecosystem in the northern South China Sea, were severely damaged in June 2015 when a 2°C rise in ocean temperature was amplified […]
Read MoreCan You Hear Me Now?
During a recent test of the optical modem he designed, WHOI engineer Norm Farr extended the coverage of his cellular carrier by about 500 meters (0.3 mile)—straight down. […]
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