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The Man Who Opened Our Ears to the Ocean
By Amanda Kowalski, Ari Daniel :: Originally published online September 3, 2015
Read MoreProud Lineage
Since its beginning, WHOI has maintained a vessel used by researchers to study the coastal ocean or to test equipment in local waters. Today, that job is held by Read More
Too Much of a Good Thing
Summer Student Fellow Claudia Mazur, of Mount Holyoke College (foreground), together with WHOI guest student Alec Cobban sampled sediments under oyster aquaculture sites in West Falmouth Harbor this summer. Both were […]
Read MoreArgo and Titanic
Thirty years ago today, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians aboard the research vessel Knorr discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic. The team found the […]
Read MorePumice Puzzle
On July 31, 2012, a passenger on a commercial airliner spotted what appeared to a large raft of pumice in the Pacific Ocean. Satellite imagery revealed the likely source—the Havre […]
Read MorePrecision Work
In this 1946 photograph, five men work in the WHOI machine shop that was then located on the ground floor of the Bigelow Laboratory. Ralph Bodman is behind the machine […]
Read MoreTraditional Relationships
A group from WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group, including Katie Castagno (grey shirt) and Michelle O’Donnell (far right), led a field lesson this summer for Mashpee Wampanoag students as part […]
Read MoreEavesdropping on the Reefs
In two recent studies, WHOI scientists demonstrated an new way to assess the health of coral reefs and to monitor threats on remote atolls: They used low-cost underwater […]
Read MoreMobilized Mercury
WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Priya Ganguli worked with Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) student Kelly Luis this summer to test groundwater […]
Read MoreWatchful Eye
Instructor Bruce Tripp (left) watched WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jerry Fontus (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julia Lanoue (Brown University) as they deployed a CTD water sampling rosette off […]
Read MoreWritten in Mud
Seafloor sediments often contain valuable clues to the nature of Earth’s climate in the distant past. Scientists collect long cores of sediment, sometimes from great depth, and then […]
Read MoreLighting the Way
Woods Hole PEP (Partnership Education Program) student Ellin Rittler from the University of San Francisco worked with WHOI biologist Scott Gallager this summer to examine the use of Read More
Local Science, Global Impacts
WHOI Geology and Geophysics Chair Dan McCorkle spoke to a group of more than 100 WHOI Associates at the annual Afternoon of Science in July. McCorkle […]
Read MoreKrill Close-up
In 2009, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Andrew McDonnell captured this image of an Antarctic krill off the West Antarctic Peninsula. McDonnell was on a cruise with WHOI […]
Read MoreSummer of Science
WHOI retiree Hovey Clifford shows Summer Student Fellows Julia Lanoue (Brown University), Ben Beaumont (North Carolina State University), and Ann Dunham (Dartmouth College), left to right, how to sieve sediment […]
Read MoreCelebrating New Life
On Earth Day 2015, members of the Woods Hole and WHOI communities gathered to celebrate the life of one of the much-loved copper beech trees that stood for 150 […]
Read MoreClam Hunting
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Megan May searches a rock jetty near Old Silver Beach on Buzzards Bay for clams. May is studying natural antibiotic resistance in the coastal environment […]
Read MoreSwimming for Science
WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler (left) and technician Jessica Drysdale give long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte instructions in how to test seawater for radioactive isotopes of cesium released from the Read More
Ocean Gems
In 2008, WHOI summer student Lauren Watka held up a dish of jewel-like fish eggs. The little saltmarsh fishes called mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) tolerate varying salinity and pollutant levels, so […]
Read MoreScience in Our Backyard
WHOI Associate David Babin and WHOI friend Judy Stetson learn about a project that engages citizen scientists in Buzzards Bay at the […]
Read MoreFuture Engineers
Students from Blackstone Valley Vocational Technical School in Upton, Massachusetts, take time out for a group photo during their visit the WHOI Ocean Sceince Exhibit Center. The students were […]
Read MoreBlackboard Ocean
Be it ever so humble, Walsh Cottage at WHOI is considered by many to be a sacred place. Since 1959, many great scientific minds have gathered each summer in a […]
Read MoreDay Trip
What looks like a well-stocked boat trip is actually a local scientific expedition, as University of California Santa Cruz chemist Carl Lamborg, WHOI post-doctoral scholar Julia Diaz, and WHOI biogeochemist […]
Read MoreCores for Climate Change
Summer Student Fellow Yuxin Zhou, working with WHOI geologist Delia Oppo and physical oceanographer Jake Gebbie, cuts off sections of a multi-core taken from the research vessel Endeavor in […]
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