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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, […]
Read MoreClose but Quiet
A remotely controlled hexacopter hovers above a North Atlantic right whale in Cape Cod Bay. Researchers at WHOI and NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center are collaborating to collect […]
Read MoreTo Pito Deep
The research vessel Atlantis is currently in Easter Island, as it was in this photo in 1998, and is preparing to begin an expedition to Pito Deep with the […]
Read MoreTailing a Fast Squid
This sleek squid sports a futuristic tail ornament. WHOI biologist Aran Mooney and collaborators at Stanford University and the University of Michigan developed a way to […]
Read MoreSolving a Methane Mystery
An enduring ocean mystery may finally be solved. For decades, scientists have known that the ocean’s surface waters are full of methane gas. But they didn’t know where it came […]
Read MoreDigging into Past Climate
WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly extracts a tube of sediment from a Cape Cod marsh as participants in the Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship look on. […]
Read MoreEngineering a Deep-sea Search
Reaching New Heights
Mooring technician Meghan Donohue says that when she chose a job that few women do, she knew there would be challenges. But she wanted […]
Read MoreSomething Old, Something new
WHOI’s newest research vessel and first building serve as a fitting image on this 87th anniversary of the Instituion’s founding. R/V Neil Armstrong arrived in Woods […]
Read MoreSwimming Upstream
Researchers often look to the natural world for solutions to engineering challenges and other complex human problems, a technique known as biomimetics. WHOI guest investigator and 2005 MIT-WHOI Joint […]
Read MoreMummified Microbes
Scientists have found evidence that microbes thrive deep below the seafloor. They are sustained by chemicals that are produced when seawater percolates down and reacts with rocks found in […]
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