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Every Ship has a Story
This 75 foot-long ship—one of the shortest in WHOI’s history—led quite a diverse life. Balanus was constructed in the early 1940s in Winthrop, Mass., less than […]
Read MoreThe Ocean in Her Life
Ella Ruth Goodman, age 4, went on her first whale watch this summer in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and discovered another world beneath the waves. Her […]
Read MoreDeep-water Corals in the Northeast Canyons
Just 100 miles off the most heavily populated coast of North America lie nearly 80 canyons cut into the seabed and continental shelf. The canyons range from 1000 feet to […]
Read MoreUp and Comers
For 58 years, WHOI has brought some of the best and brightest undergraduate students from around the world to Woods Hole for a summer-long immersion into ocean science. Students […]
Read MoreSmall Boat, Big Heart
Coastal waters account for only a fraction of the ocean’s total, but processes that play out close to shore have an oversized impact on us here on land. To […]
Read MoreKeep on Truckin’
Hurricane Hunters
Sometimes studying the ocean requires that scientists take to the air, as physical oceanographer Steve Jayne did with the Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Jayne flew with aircraft […]
Read MoreOperating Without a Tether
WHOI research engineer Casey Machado works on Nereid Hybrid Tether (HT) during dock trials recently. The “hybrid” in Nereid HT’s name means the remotely […]
Read More(Fluid) Dynamic Lecturers
The principal lecturers of the 2016 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program at WHOI were Peko Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Read More
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Falmouth Morse Pond School students Lauryn McGann, Natalie Packard, and Alexia Morton (left to right) spent part of their summer building a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). […]
Read MoreRing Around the CTD
Every summer, the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science. The students […]
Read MoreScience After Hours
Each year, virtually all the marsh grass in coastal wetlands dies, but very little plant material remains buried in sediments. Understanding where this organic matter goes is an important part […]
Read MoreDiving Into Work
Oceanographers use tools ranging from simple nets to complex autonomous robots, but there are times when only a human presence in the ocean will suffice. WHOI diving safety officer Ed […]
Read MoreFruits of their Labor
This Labor Day, a very satisfied team on R/V Neil Armstrong is headed to port after a successfully servicing moorings on the OSNAP (Overturning in […]
Read MoreAble-Bodied at Sea
R/V Neil Armstrong able-bodied seaman (AB) Pete Boucher secures one of the lines that keep the ship safely attached to the dock when in port. Both the ABs and the […]
Read MoreReal Data, Real Oceanography
Welcome Aboard
R/V Neil Armstrong in the North Atlantic
In the summer of 2016, R/V Neil Armstrong completed its first mission to the NSF-sponsored Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array in the Irminger Sea. After servicing the moorings that make […]
Read MoreExtreme Grinding
This is what’s left of a many-toothed tungsten drill bit after drilling through rock far beneath the seafloor. WHOI geologist Henry Dick recently led a voyage […]
Read MoreGetting Their Feet Wet
Summer Student Fellows Victoria Garefino (left) and Cynthia Becker (center) collect killifish for their research in Scorton Creek on Cape Cod with […]
Read MorePort of Call
The research vessel Neil Armstrong tied up in Reykjavik, Iceland, recently—its first foreign port-of-call. The ship was between cruises in the North Atlantic. After finishing a trip to the […]
Read MoreIn the Zone
Kevin Archibald and Chrissy Hernandez, students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, visit a Cape Cod beach to study the intertidal zone, the area exposed between high […]
Read MoreAlbatross III
R/V Albatross III first sailed under the name Harvard for the North Atlantic Fishery Investigations in Woods Hole. In 1941, the ship was rebuilt, renamed Bellefonte and used by the […]
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