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Penguins on (Shrinking) Ice
Four penguins march over a massive cornice on their way to a secluded part of the Cape Crozier colony, on the rim of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. The birds, […]
Read MoreRemembering Nereus
Risk Assessment
A WHOI team led by research assistant Richard Sullivan and including guest student Charlotte Wiman (left) and research assistant Mollie McDowell prepares to survey waters off the island of Ebadon in […]
Read MoreCircle of Life
On Earth Day 2015, members of the Woods Hole and WHOI communities gathered to celebrate the life of a European beech tree that has stood on campus for the […]
Read MoreMany Hats
Ocean scientists often need to be more than “just” an expert in his or her field of study. While loading the research vessel Cabo de Hornos in Valparaiso, Chile, recently, a […]
Read MoreEmbryonic AUV
Every oceanographic vehicle is brought from concept to reality by a team of engineers. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry was conceived by Barrie Walden, Al Bradley, and […]
Read MoreSafe Haven
Clouds of buestreak fusiliers swarm over giant “plates” of tabletop coral (Acropora spp.) on the reefs at South Brother Island in the Chagos Archipelago. During a recent coral coring expedition with […]
Read MoreFat Chance
A fatty compound responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic may hold unexpected promise in cancer research.
Originally published online July 1, 2010
Read MoreAtlantis, Fore and Aft
Ships mean a lot to Dick Pittenger. He retired after 32 years in the Navy as an admiral and led WHOI’s Marine Operations Division from 1990 to 2004. During that […]
Read MoreBurning Fat
Tune In
Ocean science and exploration is increasingly reliant on live video streaming from research vessels at sea to incorporate larger, more interdisciplinary teams of scientists and to make more research opportunities […]
Read MoreJust Like Home
The unusually cold winter allowed WHOI engineers to do something they normally can’t do: test equipment in polar conditions. Here, an autonomous Slocum glider operated by the Mixing […]
Read MoreRace Home
Like salmon, river herring are anadromous—they spend most of their life at sea and make annual spawning migrations up rivers to release their eggs. Although the size of these spring migrations […]
Read MoreHome Port
The research vessel Atlantis spends most of its time transporting the submersible Alvin from dive site to dive site. It recently returned to Woods Hole, however, to act in its other role […]
Read MoreDrill Here
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy waits while Arctic Spring team members Ken Golden (left) and Chris Polashenski (right) take an ice core from the Chuchki Sea. After collecting samples, scientists brought […]
Read MoreNervous Parent
It was just 6 degrees in Woods Hole when WHOI scientist Carol Anne Clayson watched the test deployment of a new instrument she helped design. The Expendable Spar (X-spar) […]
Read MoreJourney to a Ph.D.
Eleanor Bors opted to skip her commencement exercises at Oberlin in 2009 to get an early start in WHOI’s annual Summer Student Fellowship program and join an expedition on […]
Read MoreWaste Not
The bacterium, Crocosphaera watsonii (pictured), is one of the few marine microbes that can convert nitrogen gas into organic nitrogen, which acts as fertilizer to stimulate plant growth […]
Read MoreFuture Ocean Vision
A group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., visited the Ocean Science Exhibit Center recently on what has become a regular event sponsored […]
Read MoreOld School
Former WHOI oceanographer Joe Chase deploys a string of Nansen bottles from the Institution’s first research vessel, R/V Atlantis. The sampling device was developed in 1910 by the explorer and […]
Read MoreEarth Day, Every Day
A school of humpback snapper glows in the sunlight of South Brother Island of the Chagos Archipelago during a recent expedition to survey and sample the remote coral […]
Read MoreCoral Collectors
WHOI scientists Amy Apprill (left) and Matthew Neave collect tissue samples from corals off Woleai Atoll of the Federated States of Micronesia. Members of Apprill’s lab are looking at […]
Read MoreHidden Currents in the Gulf of Mexico
By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online April 20, 2015
Read MoreDeepwater Horizon
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and released about 75,000 gallons of oil per hour into the Gulf of Mexico for […]
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