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Out with the Old
Research specialist Carl Johnson carefully removes a quartz liner from the sample combustion chamber of an elemental analyzer glowing at 1000°C (1,832°F) just six inches below his fingertips. Compressed pellets…
Read MoreSurfing In
In August 2014, a team that included WHOI biologist Michael Moore was called to examine a decomposing right whale carcass on an isolated rocky beach in Newport, R.I. The team…
Read MoreArt in the Details
Like each speck of paint in a piece of art, minerals, animal skeletons, and remnants of sea sponges provide a colorful mix when sediment samples from the the Sealoor Samples…
Read MoreRoyal Pain
Gliding on hundreds of tiny suction-cup feet, a crown-of-thorns sea star roams the reef, consuming immobile corals and leaving bare coral skeleton behind. Common in the Pacific and Indian Oceans…
Read MoreRescue Mission
WHOI engineer John Kemp supervised deployment of the towed vehicle Camper from the fantail of the Swedish research vessel Oden during the 2007 Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition. The vehicle was mobilized to find the autonomous underwater…
Read MoreSnow Below
Crew on the RV Atlantic Explorer enjoyed a spectacular sunset during a research cruise in September 2009 in the Sargasso Sea as part of the Twilight Zone Explorer research project led by Ken Buesseler. The…
Read MoreBarnacle Hunt
On a chilly spring trip to a rocky beach near Woods Hole, Ping Zuo (left) from Nanjing University and WHOI research specialist Annette Frese Govindarajan look for barnacles recently settled on rocks exposed…
Read MoreNo Autographs
Alvin generates excitement, no matter where it goes. The deep-diving submersible and its support ship, R/V Atlantis, happen to be in Woods Hole at a time that coincides with the Institution’s…
Read MoreOne Extreme to Another
A team on R/V Mytilus keeps a watch on an expendable spar (X-spar) buoy during testing in an unseasonable February cold snap. WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute director Carol Anne Clayson…
Read MoreThe Right Tool
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason works on the seafloor near the Havre underwater volcano northeast of New Zealand earlier this year. The volcano erupted in 2012 with a force that…
Read More98 in the Shade
Arborists measure the girth of a massive copper beech tree on Challenger Drive on the WHOI village campus that has provided the Woods Hole community with shade and inspiration for…
Read MoreDeep-sea Takeout
Tevnia jerichonana tubeworms sprout from a “sandwich”—an artificial colonization surface made of non-toxic plastic. This sandwich was recovered from the seafloor after spending 11 months in a hydrothermal vent habitat along…
Read MoreCatch
When a ship arrives in port, the first line over the side is usually a thin heaving line with a balled “monkey fist” knot on the end that acts as…
Read MoreEndangered Species Day 2015
May 15 is Endangered Species Day. In 2010, a team that included experts from WHOI placed non-invasive DTAGs on one of the largest endangered species, and one that frequents the…
Read MorePrepare to Dive
Alvin, the nation’s only deep-sea research submersible, underwent an extensive upgrade between 2011 and 2014. In March 2014, scientists and engineers tested the new sub in a series of dives under…
Read MoreBit O’ Coral
They look like pancakes, but they are actually bits of living coral called “nubbins” with a green band of algae growing inside their skeleton. Coral animals form their hard skeleton…
Read MoreEarning his Stripes
WHOI biologist and environmental scientist Neel Aluru recently received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). NIEHS created the award to encourage the…
Read MorePenguins 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
“Nereus was an amazing, groundbreaking robot and the only currently active vehicle in the world that could reach the extreme depths of the ocean trenches,” wrote explorer and filmmaker James…
Read MoreRisk 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 last…
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 Dana Yoerger…
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…
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