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Biogeochemical Pioneer
Geoff Eglinton (1927-2016) influenced and inspired generations of marine chemists for more than 25 years as a WHOI adjunct scientist. In 2015, he penned an article for Oceanus magazine, commenting on…
Read MoreSampling the Past
These miniscule sediment samples were collected by Kristen Esser, a guest student from Northeastern University interning in the Coastal Systems Group Lab. Lab members have gathered cores from around the…
Read MoreHeat Wave
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Hanny Rivera removes a tissue sample from a bleached coral on Jarvis Island in the equatorial Pacific. Anne Cohen’s lab received an NSF RAPID response…
Read MoreMooring the World
WHOI senior scientist Bob Weller and Ruth Curry, a senior research specialist, recover an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) mooring in the Irminger Sea. WHOI has partnered with the National Science…
Read MoreStrapped In
WHOI senior mechanic Doug Handy checks the straps on the newly upgraded remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason prior to moving the vehicle to the Iselin Marine Facility for dock trials.…
Read MoreSampling Black Smokers
WHOI researchers inside the human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin use the submersible’s robotic manipulator arms to collect samples of the hot, acidic, metal-rich fluids discharging from a hydrothermal vent more than…
Read MoreAbundant Tiny Hosts
Under a microscope, a copepod looks fearsome, but at only one-sixteenth of an inch, it won’t bother you on a swim. People seldom see these tiny marine crustaceans, but they…
Read MoreBack to School
A large school of bigeye trevally swam past a submarine carrying WHOI scientists descending in Cabu Pulmo National Park, home of the oldest of only three coral reefs on the…
Read MoreWelcome Wagons
WHOI’s coastal research vessel R/V Tioga (left) and a U.S. Coast Guard vessel were among the flotilla that also included three fireboats from neighboring towns escorting R/V Neil Armstrong as it arrived in…
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong First Arrival into Woods Hole
April 6, 2016
Read MoreSteady As She Goes
Able-bodied seaman Scott Loweth steered WHOI’s new research vessel R/V Neil Armstrong through the approach to San Francisco Harbor in November 2015 to complete the first leg of the ship’s inaugural voyage. WHOI has…
Read MorePresenting: Neil Armstrong
Carol Armstrong, wife of Naval aviator and the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, christened the research vessel bearing her husband’s name in 2014. R/V Neil Armstrong…
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong Virtual Tour
R/V Neil Armstrong Meet the Ship
Topping it All Off
In February, R/V Neil Armstrong spent some time in a shipyard in Charleston, S.C., to have its scientific equipment installed, including a satellite antenna, shown here. Most of its sensors are…
Read MoreEarly to Rise
A team aboard R/V Thomas Thompson made an early-morning, fog-shrouded recovery of an MC-800 multicorer off the coast of San Diego this February on a cruise to give early career scientists an…
Read MoreHidden Battles
These images, which are CT scans similar to those taken at hospitals of the human body, provide a detailed look inside coral skeletons. The holes were made by bioeroders, small…
Read MoreTwo 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 of…
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 that call the…
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 toxins behind ciguatera…
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 (LARS). The…
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 have been…
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…
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