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Science on a New Ship
Crew members and technicians on WHOI’s new ship R/V Neil Armstrong deploy a deepwater mooring off Cape Hatteras—the first mooring deployment from the Armstrong. Bosun Peter Liarikos uses hand signals…
Read MoreTower of Data
WHOI research associate Alexi Shalapyonok checks a Flow CytoBot (FCB) on the air-sea interaction tower of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory while the coastal research vessel Tioga stands by. The…
Read MoreWrestling with RATS
On a coral reef off Palau, MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Tom DeCarlo (left) and WHOI geologist Pat Lohmann position a device called “RATS” (Robotic Analyzer for Total CO2 system in…
Read MoreSharkCam Lost and Found
At the end of their December 2015 expedition to the shark-filled waters off Guadalupe Island, the SharkCam team lost contact with their newest vehicle in nearly 600 feet of water.…
Read MoreMission: Underwater
Two Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) vehicles were stowed on R/V Neil Armstrong before the ship departed on the final leg of a three-leg expedition to service parts of the National…
Read MoreIndependence Day 2016
Independence of thought, of action, and of research; a belief in the freedom to take initiative; and an irrepressible desire to explore the unknown and to make new discoveries at…
Read MorePartners at Sea
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and U.S. Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mathias Winter stand next to a mooring anchor frame in the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors…
Read MoreA Matter of Degrees
Two celebrated research institutions joined forces in 1967 to launch the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Last month, the program awarded its one-thousandth graduate degree. Jim Yoder, vice president for academic…
Read MoreAt the Helm
Captain Derek Bergeron looks out a starboard window from the bridge of the R/V Neil Armstrong at the start of a recent cruise from Woods Hole to the continental shelf…
Read MoreTool of the Trade
Instruments like this, known as a CTD rosette, are a mainstay of oceanographic research. CTD stands for conductivity (which provides a measure of salinity), temperature, and depth. In this case,…
Read MoreReturn of SharkCam: Into the Dark
SharkCam returned to Guadalupe Island, Mexico, to follow great white sharks deeper and into the night to give researchers never-before-seen views of the ocean’s top predator in the wild.
Read MoreUp From the Deep
WHOI engineer Miles Ochs (foreground) takes up slack on a winch while Mooring Operations Group leader John Kemp checks tension on the line. The two were part of a recent…
Read MoreInside SharkCam
Learn how REMUS SharkCam is able to take you into the world of the great white shark to give you an up-close look at the ocean’s top predator.
Read MoreFuels from Algae?
WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy samples algae from the ocean for his research on biofuels. Like terrestrial plants, algae and other phytoplankton produce sugars and fats to store energy and…
Read MoreBefore
At the start of an expedition to Guadalupe Island, Mexico, the two REMUS SharkCam vehicles are still relatively unscathed. The specially modified REMUS 100 (front) and 600 vehicles are equipped…
Read MoreMembers of the Board
Members of the WHOI Board of Trustees gathered for a rare group photo following their spring meeting at WHOI. The meeting was followed by tours of WHOI’s new research vessel…
Read MoreNew Tricks
Crew members Paul Katz, Robert Arthur, and Peter Bouchard (front to back) practice using the new launch and recovery system (LARS) on R/V Neil Armstrong, visible in the background. The LARS…
Read MoreAudio Slideshow: Greeting a New Ship
A Family Affair
The family of WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson greeted Neil Armstrong yesterday as the ship (and Gareth) returned to Woods Hole. Tomorrow, June 25, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the…
Read MoreA New Ship in Town
This Saturday, June 25, is the day for the public to come help welcome R/V Neil Armstrong. The nation’s newest research vessel will be on display at the WHOI dock…
Read MoreEavesdropping on an Underwater World
William A. Watkins helped pioneer the field marine mammal bioacoustics, opening our ears to an underwater world of sound. Watkins was a self-taught electrical engineer who initially came to WHOI to help his mentor and…
Read MoreVirtual Ocean
WHOI post-doctoral investigator Tom Chalk manipulates a dataset showing carbonate ion concentration in the 3-dimensional image visualization laboratory. The lab is used to help analyze large, geo-referenced datasets of physical…
Read MoreBlast from the Past
A section of beech tree that stood on the WHOI campus in Woods Hole for nearly 150 years is ready to be sampled by technicians at the National Ocean Sciences…
Read MoreSensing Carbon Flux
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sophie Chu (left) and research assistant Kate Morkeski, who work with chemist Aleck Wang, prepare to deploy a Channelized Optical System (CHANOS) sensor in the Sage…
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