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Mapping Vents
Hydrothermal vents are not nearly as rare as initially thought when they were first discovered in 1977. Since then, scientists have come to better understand the conditions that create the wide…
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In November, Jeff Lord and Sean Whelan from the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group boarded the Indian research vessel Sagar Nidhi to deploy a buoy in the Bay of Bengal equipped with…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Joanne Malkus Simpson was the first female meteorologist to earn a doctorate. She discovered what keeps hurricanes moving forward and revealed what drives the atmospheric currents in the tropics. As a…
Read MoreThe Control Room
Inside the dark Jason control room, video screens display real-time images of the seafloor sent from the vehicle’s high-definition cameras to a pilot (foreground) who controls the vehicle with a joystick.…
Read MoreDeep Subject
Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Santiago Herrera collects tissue samples from a shrimp, one of many crustacean species collected during this May 2014 cruise to explore the Kermadec Trench near New…
Read MoreAnchor Almost Away
Aboard R/V Knorr, over the western end of the Reykjanes Ridge near Iceland, bosun Pete Liriakos (kneeling) signals to winch operator Leo Fitz (gray hood) as they deploy the anchor…
Read MoreHot Water
Data from a ship traveling the “Oleander Line” between New York and Bermuda and from buoys revealed unusually high ocean temperatures (red) in spring and summer of 2012 along the…
Read MoreFriendly Visit
The 105-meter R/V Yokosuka carrying the Shinkai 6500 submersible and operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) visited WHOI in 1994 after a joint expedition with…
Read MoreToy Closet
MIT-WHOI Joint Program alumnus and MIT professor Franz Hover stands in his Marine Robotics Lab surrounded several autonomous vehicles used by his current Joint Program students: Brooks Reed, Pedro Teixeira,…
Read MoreChristening the New Year
The past year marked the christening of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, shown here just after it was launched in March. The coming year is expected to see the…
Read MoreDive After Dive
One good dive deserves another. Mike Skowronski leaped off the submersible Alvin shortly after it resurfaced from a dive to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico in March 2014.…
Read MoreSummer Sampler
Columbia University student Maya Becker, a 2014 WHOI Summer Student Fellow, and WHOI instructors prepare a Niskin water sampler, on a boat trip the fellows took to learn about basic oceanographic…
Read MoreCatcher in the Sea
Scientists and crew aboard the research vessel Knorr deployed a sediment net trap on a 2012 cruise in the North Atlantic to collect particles sinking from the sea surface. The…
Read MoreGame of “Pong”
Sound generators sit on R/V Knorr‘s deck, heading to the subpolar Atlantic in summer 2014. A group of scientists involved in the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program, including…
Read MoreHands-on Oceanography
Lily Helfrich, a student at Northwestern University and a native of Falmouth, Mass., came back to Woods Hole for the 2014 WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program. On the annual student…
Read MoreHung By the Lab Bench with Care
Preservation bags and vials sit ready for samples on a lab bench during a 2014 cruise aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. Biologists on the cruise were looking at the…
Read MoreOh Christmas Tree
During a trip to Exuma Keys in the Bahamas for her Ph.D., WHOI research associate Kristen Whalen snapped this photo of a Christmas tree worm attached to coral. The branches…
Read MoreHome for the Holidays
R/V Knorr returned to Woods Hole on December 16 after its final cruise as a member of the U.S. oceanographic fleet to a group of holiday-themed well-wishers. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled…
Read MoreToxic Fish
Graduate student Katie Pitz collects specimens of coral rubble in an effort to combat a serious and prevalent food-borne illness plaguing tropical islands: ciguatera fish poisoning. CFP affects thousands of…
Read MorePieces of History
Dan Chamberlain and Margaret DiGiorno, visiting students from Northeastern University working in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly, split a sediment core from Blackmore Pond, a coastal pond in…
Read MoreFarewell to the Knorr
By Kathryn Eident :: Originally published online December 1, 2014
Read MoreRunning on Cheer
Each year in mid-December the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers don their elf hats and jog through every buiding on WHOI’s two campuses, jingling bells and proclaiming holiday cheer to all…
Read MoreLearning the Ropes
Every summer since 1959, the prestigious WHOI Summer Student Fellowship Program brings undergraduate students to Woods Hole, where they learn about ocean science and conduct research under the guidance of…
Read MoreNew Tool
Andy Bowen, director of the National Deep Submergence Facility at WHOI, right, showed off the Institution’s newest underwater vehicle, Nereid Under Ice, (NUI) to Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations. Greenert visited…
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