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Batteries Included
WHOI engineers Rick Sisson, John Lund, and Brian Kelly (left to right) inspect the wiring and leak detector at the bottom of a battery pack that will be inserted in […]
Read MoreGuess Your Age?
Brett Longworth, research associate in the Geology & Geophysics department, loads a wheel of samples into the ion source of the National Ocean Sciences Accelator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. […]
Read MoreReady to Ride
A green heron watched while perched on the R/V Knorr’s dockline in July as WHOI Summer Student Fellows boarded the coastal research vessel R/V Tioga for a day trip in […]
Read MoreSubs Away!
WHOI voluteers show a group of visitors how to pilot a remote-controlled submarine outside the Ocean Science Exhibit Center recently. The popular activity with be part of the Read More
On Display
Testing, Testing
Victoria McGruer, a Northeastern University student working in the lab of WHOI biologist Don Anderson, preps and tests ESPs (Environmental Sample Processors) in the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and […]
Read MoreFamily Portrait
The National Deep Submergence Facility is a National Science Foundation-funded center operated by WHOI for the benefit of the entire US oceanographic community. It includes three deep-diving assets: the Read More
Alvin Aloft
A team carefully unloaded the submersible Alvin from its support ship R/V Atlantis last week, as Atlantis prepares for a series of trips to recover and deploy instruments associated with the NSF-funded Read More
Mytilus Fine Day
A double rainbow arches over WHOI Associate Scientist Dave Ralston as he ties up the Mytilus, one of several vessels in WHOI’s small boat fleet. Ralston used the Mytilus […]
Read MoreTele-commuting
WHOI engineers Peter Brickley (foreground) and Diana Wickman monitored glider deployments occurring from R/V Knorr while sitting in the comfort of the Coleman and Susan Burke Operations Room at WHOI. […]
Read MorePlaying a Part
Coral Thermometers
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Whitney Bernstein and her advisor, Konrad Hughen of the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department, sort and measure cores taken from massive Porites corals in November 2008. After splitting […]
Read MoreRadiation Detectives
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Erin Black (right) and guest student Ben Duncan sliced open a marine sediment core taken in January 2015 from the Marshall Islands, site of U.S. nuclear […]
Read MoreFeeding Frenzy
WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore, along with John Durban of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center and colleagues, ventured out into […]
Read MoreEyes on Plankton
WHOI engineers, together with scientists from Duke University and the University of Oregon Institute recently deployed a novel plankton sampler attached to the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry from […]
Read MoreCool Blue Recovery
Orca Rising
Outlaw Algae in Alaskan Waters
Monitoring the Ice
Mercury Rising?
Every summer, up to 15 college students get to work side-by-side with WHOI researchers as part of the Partnership Education Program (PEP), a program founded by six science institutions […]
Read MoreUndersea Constellation
In April, WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda worked aboard the research vessel Alucia, to study the ecology and oceanography of Hannibal Seamount, an undersea mountain rising from 1,377 […]
Read MoreOcean Weather Station
Heavily instrumented buoys like this Coastal Surface Mooring (CSM) being recovered aboard the R/V Knorr, are part of the NSF-funded Pioneer Array, a network […]
Read MoreGlide Path
Serving Up Synechococcus
Kristen Hunter-Cevera investigates abundant organisms in the ocean, a photosynthetic bacteria called Synechococcus, that are also an important food source in the marine food chain and produce a […]
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