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Safety in Space and Sea
When NASA’s Aviation Safety Officers and engineers set out to re-evaluate the agency’s vehicles and systems, they chose the WHOI Alvin operations group as a benchmark—the first non-aviation […]
Read MoreCreature from the Canyon
Photographed in a drop of water, this shrimp-like crustacean is tiny—about the size of a fingernail. It comes from Barrow Canyon, a seafloor feature in the Arctic Ocean that’s […]
Read MoreRunning into 2017
If you think it’s difficult to hold to your resolution to get more exercise in the New Year, imagine what it’s like to do so in Antarctica. MIT-WHOI Joint […]
Read MoreThe New Year’s Swing
This image of researchers swinging over newly formed pancake ice in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, is one of 12 beautiful photographs featured in the WHOI 2017 wall calendar. The images, […]
Read MoreTOTEM Project
By Lonny Lippsett :: Originally published online October 18, 2013
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Ice Capade
WHOI researchers Kris Newhall (left) and Rick Krishfield (right), and Brian Mackenzie, crew member of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent, set up an ice-tethered profiler […]
Read MoreWelcome to Atlantis Bank
Atlantis Bank formed on the seafloor as the Southwest Indian mid-ocean ridge spread apart along a tectonic fault (top). The lower-crust gabbro rock that formed Atlantis Bank was slowly […]
Read MoreWhale Songs in Motion
Decked Out in Yellow
R/V Neil Armstrong‘s deck was awash in yellow on a recent cruise to the tempestuous Irminger Sea off Greenland. Bosun Kyle Covert (top left), WHOI Research […]
Read MoreMerry Christmas Tree Worm
Christmas tree worms, named for their resemblance to decorated holiday trees, are tiny, segmented worms that grow slowly and live up to four decades in a single location once […]
Read MoreSanta at Sea
During a pair of linked research cruises on R/V Atlantis that spanned Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year, the crew and science team left a traditional enticement of cookies and […]
Read MoreScience by Drone
WHOI biologist Michael Moore is leading a collaborative project to study the health of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales using drones. SR3 researcher Holly Fearnbach (left) […]
Read MoreIn the Middle of It All
The expansive poster hall is a staple of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held annually in December. The meeting, which draws approximately 25,000 attendees each year, is […]
Read MoreImaging 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 […]
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