Multimedia Items
Family Portrait
A rare moment on the WHOI dock, with all of the vehicles in the National Deep Submergence Facility present, along with many members of their operations teams. Shown are: the…
Read MoreKeeping It Clean
Bowdoin College Summer Student Fellow Ben Geyman (left) checks samples with WHOI marine biogeochemist Tristan Horner and WHOI researcher Maureen Wisch. Geyman and the others are working in what’s known…
Read MoreNo Harm, No Foul
As long as scientists have been putting instruments in the ocean, biofouling has been a challenge confronting instrument designers. Here, WHOI technician Dan Torres recovers an acoustic doppler current profiler…
Read MoreBeachcombing With Biologists
Ocean Science Journalism Fellows learn about the ecology of Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth during a 2015 field trip with WHOI biologist Annette Govindarajan (far left) and Woods Hole Sea…
Read MoreOn the Rocks
Ice floes in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon come from Breiðamerkurjökull (visible in the background), one of the glaciers draining the third largest ice cap in the world. Iceland was the destination…
Read MoreScience Is His Beat
Ari Daniel earned a Ph.D.in biology, studying orcas in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. But he has made a career as journalist, telling multimedia stories about science for outlets such Public…
Read MoreSummer Blooms
Salpa aspera, a jelly-like species of animal found in the Atlantic Ocean, can link into chains several meters long and are comprised of as many as 80 individuals. These “salps”…
Read MoreLaunch and Recovery of AUV Sentry
Beach Troop
Jeffrey Brodeur, the Communications and Outreach Specialist at Woods Hole Sea Grant (WHSG), leads a beach cleanup activity with girls in a Falmouth, Mass., Brownie troop and the troop assistant,…
Read MorePreparing for Deployment
WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn (right) and Raytheon engineer Edward Colgan prepare pH sensors on a surface mooring for deployment from the R/V Neil Armstrong at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Pioneer…
Read MoreGetting their Feet Wet (and Hands Dirty)
Biologist Phil Alatalo (middle) assists Summer Student Fellow Chloe Wang (left) of Haverford College as she opens up the base of a gravity core during the annual summer cruise for…
Read MoreSummer of Science
University of Miami student Julia Paine prepares sediment samples from Canada’s Fraser River for analysis in WHOI’s Plasma Mass Spectrometry Facility. By measuring concentrations of strontium isotopes—radioactive chemical forms of the element—in the…
Read MoreIn Search of Popping Rocks
WHOI scientists Adam Soule and Mark Kurz prepare to climb into the submersible Alvin for a dive to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge seafloor during the 2016 Popping Rocks expedition aboard the…
Read MoreAustral Summer
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito took this striking image while aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in the southern (austral) summer of 2005-06. The international research team investigated the ecological struggle…
Read MoreEndless Summer
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreNo Place to Turn
The Johanna Kristina, a ferry and cargo ship that services villages in southeastern Greenland, struggled through an unusually heavy concentration of sea ice in the Sermilik Fjord in 2015. The…
Read MoreAt Home in the Ocean
It would be difficult to mistake Woods Hole, Mass., for any other seaside town in New England. Instead of t-shirt shops and ice cream stores (though those exist here), buildings…
Read MoreEAGER at Work
Stanford microbiologist Anne Dekas works from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island to lead a team of scientists participating in the first leg of an Alvin training cruise…
Read MoreA Coral in Hand
WHOI Biologist Tim Shank holds a deep-sea coral specimen collected from an unnamed canyon south of Martha’s Vineyard in May 2016. Deep-sea corals have evolved to survive without the support of…
Read MoreObserving the Oceans
Speaking for the Ocean
High school students Gillian Asuncion (center) and Emma Bartram, from Burbank, California, tour the personnel sphere in the deep-sea submersible Alvin with Gillian’s brother, Jeremy. Asuncion and Bartram were the grand-prize…
Read MoreRiver of Ice
This is Kviárjökull, a glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland. Frequent volcanic eruptions in Iceland sprinkle a lot of black debris on glaciers’ white surfaces. Sometimes the glaciers’…
Read MoreHands on Deck
The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science, attend lectures by Woods Hole scientists, and…
Read MoreDown to the Sea in Ships (and Satellites and Robots…)
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott takes you inside Ocean Science 3.0 and the future of ocean exploration. Presentation given on July 29, 2016 at the Marine Biological Laboratory as…
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