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Smart Buoy
WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner has deployed buoys carrying his near real-time whale-listening devices off the coasts of Massachusetts, Maine, and New York. The technology includes software developed by Baumgartner to…
Read MoreSummer River Research
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Stefani Johnson of St. John’s University discussed her poster with scientist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink in August 2016. Students in the program work with scientists as advisors and…
Read MoreThe Panteleyev Award
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Melissa Moulton (center) received the 2016 George “Gera” Pavlovich Panteleyev Award from Associate Dean Margaret Tivey and Dean Jim Yoder in June 2016. The award is…
Read MoreNewly Minted Ph.D.s
The June 2016 commencement ceremonies of MIT-WHOI Joint Program included the recipient of the one-thousandth degree awarded since the program was launched in 1967. The milestone was marked by a…
Read MoreWomen at Work
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sophie Chu (right) and research assistant Kate Morkeski prepare to measure the movement of dissolved inorganic carbon in a Waquoit Bay salt marsh. In additional to…
Read MoreDressed for the Deep
WHOI engineer Molly Curran puts the finishing touches on the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry by re-attaching its freshly-cleaned, bright yellow “skins.” The vehicle was completing a maintenance period before…
Read MoreStorm-tossed Seas
With a storm on the horizon, the ocean is probably the last place you want to put your valuable instruments. Patrick Deane (left) and Sean Whelan did just that, launching an…
Read MoreCasting a Wide Net
In June 2016 R/V Neil Armstrong traveled to the edge and slope of the continental shelf south of Cape Cod. The cruise was part of a series of trips deisgned…
Read MoreSettling In
Oysters and many other bottom-dwelling organisms begin life as free-swimming larvae, drifting in the ocean currents. How and when they decide to settle on the seafloor and grow to adulthood…
Read MoreBear of a Ship
The research vessel Bear was built in Bristol, R.I., in1941 to serve during World War II as a troop carrier in the South Pacific. In 1951, WHOI chartered Bear and purchased…
Read MoreMeasuring Methane
WHOI scientist Anna Michel is developing new ways to measure gases in the air over long distances using a technique called laser spectroscopy. Some of the light from a laser is absorbed by…
Read MoreTag On!
Mike Dodge, husband of marine biologist Kara Dodge, prepares to attach a suction cup-mounted tag to the back of a leatherback sea turtle in waters near Cape Cod recently. Both…
Read MoreMagnetic Attraction
WHOI geologist Maurice Tivey has an unusual speciality: He studies the magnetic properties of rocks. When volcanic magma solidifies, magnetic crystals form in rocks and become oriented in the direction…
Read MoreArriving in Style
Members of the Wampanoag tribal nation (foreground) welcome the crew from the Hōkūle’a at WHOI this summer. Hokule’a is a traditional Polynesian sailing canoe currently on a round-the-world tour to…
Read MoreAlvin‘s Army
Alvin, the nation’s deepest-diving human-occupied research sub, was built in 1964 and has been constantly upgraded ever since. It is part of the NSF-sponsored National Deep Submergence Facility at WHOI, which…
Read MoreWaiting Their Turn
Large orange floats line the edge of the WHOI dock. In a couple of weeks, they’ll board the R/V Neil Armstrong bound for the Coastal Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory about…
Read MoreThe Mysterious Life of Eels
The life cycle of eels still holds many mysteries for scientists. Eels are believed to mate and lay their eggs in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean—but no…
Read MoreEvery 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 100 miles from her…
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 mother, Jessica,…
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 selected…
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 study…
Read MoreKeep on Truckin’
The human-occupied vehicle Alvin hitches a ride on a flatbed before being hoisted onto the WHOI-operated research vessel Atlantis in advance of an expedition this summer to explore the depths…
Read MoreHurricane 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 commander Lt.…
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