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Eavesdropping 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 recorders designed…
Read MoreMobilized Mercury
WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Priya Ganguli worked with Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) student Kelly Luis this summer to test groundwater from nearby Mosquito Creek for methylmercury. Septic systems in…
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 the…
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 split them…
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 Raman spectroscopy…
Read MoreLocal 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 described a project funded…
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 chemist Ken…
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 samples…
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 years…
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 Fukushima Dai-ichi…
Read MoreOcean 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 annual Associates Afternoon of Science in July. Babin…
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 exploring…
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 spring of 2014…
Read MoreBatteries 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. The…
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 Buzzards Bay.…
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 Woods Hole…
Read MoreOn Display
HOV Alvin project manager Susan Humphris spoke to members of WHOI’s Board of Trustees in 2014 in front of the newly refurbished submersible on board R/V Atlantis. On August 9,…
Read MoreTesting, 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 Observing Systems…
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 human-occupied submersible…
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