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Building the Observatory
In the high bay of WHOI’s Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems (LOSOS), Jared Schwartz (left) and Steve Caldwell guide a surface mooring tower onto its base, for […]
Read MoreUp From the South
A gift from the Carnegie Institution’s Dry Tortugas laboratory when it closed, the 70-foot (21-meter) Anton Dohrn made 40 cruises from 1940 to 1947 for WHOI investigations from the Gulf […]
Read MoreResistance in Action
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Megan May tested temperature and salinity of the water near Little Island in West Falmouth, Mass., recently as part of her research. May is […]
Read MoreView from the Bottom
John Beaton (center), a marine science technician with the Scottish Association for Marine Science looks on as a trawl-resistant “bottom lander” is deployed from R/V Knorr as part of the […]
Read MoreOf Carbon and Rivers
Scientists involved in the Global Rivers Observatory are studying Earth’s major river systems to understand what they transport to the ocean and how river chemistry reflects environmental change in […]
Read MorePomp, Circumstance, and the Sea
WHOI Director of Research Larry Madin led a procession of WHOI scientists at the commencement of MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate students in June. The wooden ship’s belaying […]
Read MoreHow Cold Was It?
Hard to believe with the beginning of summer approaching, but only four months ago it was so cold that much of Woods Hole Harbor froze. Scientists at WHOI and elsewhere […]
Read MoreTag and Release
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Nicholas Macfarlane applies a DTAG to a pilot whale in the Strait of Gibraltar. The digital acoustic recording tag was developed at WHOI in […]
Read MoreFinal Check
The Deep Rover 2 (foreground) in the water after being launched from R/V Alucia with a team that includes WHOI engineer Mike Skowronski (left inside the sphere) looking […]
Read MoreThe Graduates
The MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, created in 1968, has graduated nearly 1000 alumni. Each year, graduating Joint Program students participate in the MIT commencement. […]
Read MoreCorals and carbon
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Hannah Barkley studies the impacts that warmer, more acidic seawater may have on corals. As atmospheric carbon dioxide rises, the ocean is absorbing more […]
Read MoreAssembly Line
Technicians Meghan Donohue (left) and Andrew Davies worked through a bitterly cold morning in February to assemble a new expendable spar (X-Spar) buoy conceived by WHOI scientists Carol Anne […]
Read MoreMission Controller
Geologist Chris German monitored dive operations of the NOAA remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Herculese live from the Coleman and Susan Burke Operations Room at WHOI. The dives were part of his […]
Read MoreSpring Melt
After long dark winters, sunlight returns to Greenland each spring. Meltwater streams into depressions in the ice to form large supraglacial lakes that can be miles wide. Thousands of these […]
Read MoreHandy Trick
WHOI biologist and NSF post-doctoral fellow Holly Moeller examines some of the marine microbe cultures she is growing in light and temperature conditions that mimic parts of the open […]
Read MoreCulture Club
These flasks contain different types of Synechococcus, single-cell photosynthetic bacteria that are one of the most abundant and critical organisms in the ocean. They are, however, notoriously difficult to culture in […]
Read MoreRecord Retrieval
WHOI geologists Konrad Hughen and Colleen Hansel core into a Porites lobata coral colony on the leeward side of Danger Island in the Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean […]
Read MoreReady to Dive
The human-occupied submersible Alvin achieved certification from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to dive to depths of 4,500 meters (about 2.8 miles) during tests off the […]
Read MoreWorld Oceans Day 2015
Today is World Oceans Day. The global ocean is one of the keys to life on Earth. It helps regulate our climate and our water supply, supplies oxygen to the atmosphere, […]
Read MoreKeeping Warm
The Clothing Distribution Center of the U.S. Antarctic Program in New Zealand provides one-stop shopping for polar explorers. If you are going south to the Antarctic continent on their watch, then […]
Read MoreLayers of Knowledge
A young visitor to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center watches a water density demonstration that explains how layers can form in the ocean. To participate in activities like this […]
Read MoreCongratulations Graduates
In June 1970, WHOI personnel watched the first commencement ceremony of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Since then, the program has graduated more than 900 students, many of whom […]
Read More2015 Ketchum Award – Dr. Candace Oviatt
Under the Waves, June 7
Visitors to a 2013 WHOI public event listened as research engineer Gwyneth Packard explained the workings of a REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle like the one that was featured during […]
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