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Two Ships
After R/V Knorr (now Rio Tecolutla) departed Woods Hole for the last time earlier in March, the ship headed south to its new home in Mexico. Along the way, off the coast […]
Read MoreLife Lessons
Hydrothermal vents, fissures where minerals dissolved in hot seawater pour out of the seafloor, were discovered in 1977 aboard the submersible Alvin. The amazing variety of organisms […]
Read MoreHelping Hand
Personnel transfers on the open ocean are rarely easy, so when a request comes for one it’s usually serious. The Coast Guard received notice recently of a sick crewmember on […]
Read MoreSomething Fishy
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Katie Pitz is on the hunt for invisible, but dangerous organisms in the tropical ocean. She is conducting research on a microscopic phytoplankton that produce […]
Read MoreWatch and Learn
Peter Liarikos (foreground), bosun on R/V Neil Armstrong, gets help from a representative of Markey Machinery in learning how to control the ship’s hydro winches and new launch-and-recovery system […]
Read MoreVent Value
Humans have known about deep-sea hydrothermal vents only since 1977, when an expedition using the submersible Alvin explored a site in the Pacific along the mid-ocean ridge. Vents […]
Read MoreROV Jason Upgrade Timelapse
In 2015, the remotely operated vehicle Jason began a year-long, $2.4 million upgrade that culminated in a complete rebuild of the vehicle during the winter of 2016. The upgrade was […]
Read MoreDot in the Ocean
Jarvis Island is an uninhabited island on the equator in the mid-Pacific Ocean. As trade winds push warm surface waters west across the Pacific, the deep Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) transports […]
Read MoreReady for Splashdown
WHOI’s remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) Jason heads onto the dock in Woods Hole after undergoing a $2.4 million overhaul funded by the National Science Foundation that included a year-long engineering effort and took […]
Read MoreGolden Globes
This universe of golden-yellow bubbles is actually a sample of Antarctic marine phytoplankton called Phaeocystis. The tiny yellow dots on each ball are actually individual algal cells forming hollow spherical […]
Read MoreFine-scale Measurements
Researchers from the University of KwaZulu-Natal watch as a sensor-equipped Slocum Glider takes measurements off the east coast of South Africa. WHOI physical oceanographer Read More
Acoustic Eavesdropping
Coral reefs provide habitat for 25 percent of all marine species, but are facing threats from warmer temperatures and lower pH. WHOI biologist Aran Mooney (above) and Max […]
Read MoreWeighting for Alvin
Alvin can’t carry enough batteries to power its way to the seafloor. Instead, dive preparations include attaching stacks of iron plates to the outside of the sub so […]
Read MoreChanging Arctic
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015 led by Michael Aw of the Explorers Club to raise […]
Read MoreIt’s Academic
The WHOI Academic Programs Office hosted a reception for faculty and students, past and present, at this year’s Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, a biennial conference that attracted […]
Read MoreOne Last Line
WHOI port engineer Dutch Wegman unmoors the final line on March 15 as R/V Knorr prepared to set sail from Woods Hole for the last time with a Read More
A Mountainous Task
The Galápagos archipelago is made up of 13 major volcanic islands that occupy a submerged platform rising more than three kilometers (nearly two miles) above the seafloor. During an Read More
Mystic Beluga
WHOI biologist Aran Mooney (black jacket) traveled to Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn., to study hearing in beluga whales. Mooney, with Manuel Castellote from the NOAA National […]
Read MoreHow Far We’ve Come
On a warm spring day in 1970, Capt. Emerson Hiller sailed R/V Knorr into Woods Hole for the first time (and did a smart pirouette to demonstrate the ship’s handling). […]
Read MoreHello and Good-bye
High and Dry
R/V Atlantis was in dry dock in Charleston, S.C., earlier this year for scheduled maintenance. Today, the oceanographic research vessel and support ship for the submersible Alvin is back at […]
Read MoreSummer Reunion
Members of the 2015 class of Summer Student Fellows posed for a reunion photo during a reception hosted by the Academic Programs Office at the recent Ocean Sciences […]
Read MoreTragedy Then and Now
Namiwake Shrine in the city of Sendai stands in testament to the forces that have shaped the landscape, culture, and history of Japan. The shrine, whose name means “parted wave,” […]
Read MoreBubble Lab
Scientists find ways to have a little fun amid the relentless hard work on long research cruises. Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Dan Ohnemus pokes his head out […]
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