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Arctic or Bust
Arctic researchers often launch their expeditions from Svalbard, Norway, where this statue of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach both poles, provides inspiration. WHOI biologist Cabell Davis…
Read MoreTough Place to Live
WHOI scientists Virginia Edgcomb and Joan Bernhard led a 2011 expedition in the Mediterranean to investigate one of earth’s harshest environments—Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHABs). These seafloor depressions hold water…
Read MoreDrag Testing
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Julie van der Hoop (left), David Morin (center) of NOAA Fisheries, and Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI, prepare to deploy gear from…
Read MoreWatching Ice
WHOI engineer Jeff O’Brien attaches an upward looking sonar (ULS) onto a mooring to prepare it for deployment earlier in 2015 as part of the thirteenth year of observations of…
Read MoreCoral RATS
WHOI geologist Pat Lohmann and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Tom DeCarlo deploy the RATS (Robotic Analyzer of the Total carbon dioxide System) sampler from scaffolding they built between coral…
Read MoreBrave New Dive
A diver prepares to enter the waters of Vinyard Haven, Mass., from the USS Tringa in the summer of 1947. Divers at the time wore lead boots so they could…
Read MoreTurbulent Times
Brian Hogue and Sophia Merrifield assist WHOI Senior Scientist Louis St. Laurent in deploying a Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP) from the deck of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer during the Dynamics on Mid-Ocean…
Read MoreLeaders Then and Now
Bostwick H. “Buck” Ketchum is pictured working in jacket and tie aboard WHOI’s original Atlantis in the mid-1950s. Ketchum was an early leader in developing the field of biological oceanography…
Read MoreMidnight Sunset
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Astrid Pacini captured a serene midnight sunset on a research cruise off Iceland in August. Pacini went as an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) watch-stander with…
Read MoreLending a Hand
Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI physical oceanographer and director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute, holds a tag line during test deployment of an expendable spar buoy (X-Spar). Clayson and senior…
Read MoreIce Watch
An art installation in Paris at the COP 21 climate conference presents a reminder of the importance of the ocean in Earth’s climate. “Ice Watch,” created by the Icelandic artist…
Read MoreReady to Fly
Chilly conditions in Woods Hole in early 2015 provided ideal conditions for engineer Ken Decoteau to do engineering runs of a Slocum glider in advance of its deployment in the…
Read MoreSteady Hands
WHOI engineers Mike Jakuba (left) and Molly Curran steady the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle as it is loaded onto R/V Tioga in September for trials off…
Read MoreJaguar on the Seamount
On a recent trip Panama’s Coiba National Park led by WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda, AUV specialist Jeff Anderson and WHOI postdoctoral scholar Yogi Girdhar (left to right) deployed the SeaBED-class vehicle Jaguar…
Read MoreBriefing in Tokyo
In Tokyo, Japan this October, WHOI scientist Ken Buesseler and Japanese colleagues briefed US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy about radioactivity levels and sources in the ocean near the Fukushima…
Read MoreClimate, the Next Generation
The Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) is an annual gathering of graduate students who study climate and climate change. The meetings typically alternate between MIT and the University of Washington and provide…
Read MoreOld As Ice
This image of a blue iceberg, calved off a glacier, was captured on a recent research trip to waters off Greenland. Its striking color indicates that the ice in it…
Read MoreFrom Mud to Molecules
Originally published online January 1, 2010
Read MoreTracking an Advance
King crabs may be an important economic marine resource in many regions, but they are also a high-level predator that, in the wrong place, can have devastating impacts on the…
Read MoreNUI manipulator integration
Bioacoustic Pioneers
In 1949, WHOI biologist William Schevill, right, and his wife Barbara Lawrence used a crude hydrophone and a dictating machine to record beluga whales from a small boat in the…
Read MoreNosing Onto the Shelf
Gliders released off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters exchange in the economically important waters…
Read MoreFukushima’s Impact on the Ocean
By Daniel Cojanu, Ken Kostel, Matt Barton :: Originally published online January 1, 2014
Read MoreTricking Tricho
New research by scientists at WHOI and the University of California, has demonstrated that Trichodesmium (shown here), a key organism in the ocean’s food web, will start reproducing at high speed…
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