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Crowdsourcing Fukushima
By Ken Kostel :: Originally published online January 1, 2014
Read MoreBig Shrimp
WHOI biologist Tim Shank examines a big shrimp captured in a trap 6,000 meters (about 3.75 miles) below the sea surface. It was collected during an NSF-funded cruise […]
Read MoreSweet Stowaway
Message to Mom
During a 2009 Arctic expedition aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, science writer Helen Fields (left) and technician Megan Bernhardt from the University of Washington arranged a Mother’s Day salute […]
Read MoreThe Art of Science
Visitors enjoy an art show that highlights the themes of the recent Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Morss Colloquium From Penguins to Polar Bears: The Impacts of Climate Change. The […]
Read MoreHow the Fluid Flows
Standing by a rotating tank, guest student Luisa Ottolenghi discusses how water flows down a slope with engineer Chris Lumping (left) and scientist Joseph Pedlosky, in the WHOI Read More
Unlocking the Key
Alvin‘s Basket
Fragile Corals
As part of an ongoing collaboration, students from the Perkins School for the Blind visited the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center to learn about ocean acidification and its […]
Read MoreOcean Current Detour
The ocean’s global circulation transports heat around the planet, from the equator to the poles, thus regulating Earth’s climate. Two major cogs in this planetary system are the Gulf […]
Read MoreEndless Sunrise
Doctoral candidate Melissa Patrician captured this stunning sunrise over the Southern Ocean at 1:47 a.m. in late November 2011. With nearly 24 hours of sunlight aboard […]
Read MoreLeaping Polar Bears!
WHOI researcher Chris Linder photographed this polar bear during an expedition in the summer of 2007. Later that year, a research team including WHOI scientist Hal Caswell concluded […]
Read MoreOne More Mooring
Brian Hogue (left) and Ben Pietro deploy a moored profiler from R/V Atlantis during a 2010 cruise to Line W led by WHOI physical oceanographer John Toole. Moored […]
Read MoreGetting Alvin Ready to Dive
Narrated by Jefferson Grau, Alvin pilot-in-training, this video shows the daily dance to deploy Alvin into the ocean.
Read MoreAn Omen of the Ocean
For scientists who spent seven weeks aboard the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem eXperiment (SIPEX-2) expedition to the Southern Ocean in 2012, this black-browed albatross was a welcome sign of […]
Read MoreOrigin of Species?
Mounted to the front of ROV Jason, these isobaric gas-tight (IGT) samplers are ready to be deployed for sampling a hydrothermal vent in the Mid-Cayman Rise. In an […]
Read MoreDeep-sea Clams
Team Microbe
Like humans, corals are home to millions of microbes such as bacteria and algae. Here, “Team Microbe” members Matthew Neave (WHOI and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), […]
Read MoreFrom Ice to Eire
In 2011 WHOI researchers working from Russia’s Ice Camp Barneo and using a Russian helicopter installed an Ice-Tethered Profiler, ITP-47, in thick ice near the North Pole. Beneath […]
Read MoreOcean Oddity
This isn’t something you see every day. On a recent expedition in the Gulf of Mexico aboard the research vessel Atlantis, Bosun Patrick Hennessy spotted this curious sight […]
Read MoreWorld Penguin Day
A trio of Emperor penguins playfully slides into Antarctic water. These iconic birds are threatened by ecosystem shifts, including the melting of sea ice—a solemn reminder of climate change on this World […]
Read MoreSound Check
Mike Jech (left) of NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole and WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson prepare to calibrate an acoustic towed body in […]
Read MoreOn Thin Ice
Happy Earth Day
We call it Earth, but our home planet is nearly covered by water. The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, while another 10 percent is locked in […]
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