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In 2003, scientists traveled to the Beaufort Sea to collect instruments, called moored profilers, that had spent the previous year at least a mile under Arctic ice gathering data about…
Read MoreTools of Survival
Water pollution often devestates marine life, but can occasionally make some fish tougher. WHOI researchers recentlycompared the way tomcod in Shinnecock Bay and the Hudson River have evolved in response…
Read MoreHolding Up Under Pressure
In addition to its need to submerge, the submersible Alvin also needs to float. For this, engineers rely on syntactic foam, which iscomposed of microscopic glass spheres embedded in an…
Read MoreA Fluid Problem
Every summer since 1959, graduate students interested in physical and mathematical sciences have gathered at WHOI to study geophysical fluid dynamics. This field focuses on the physics and motions of fluids,…
Read MoreEars in the Deep
A recent, routine audit provided an opportunity for WHOI scientists to dig out some old equipment and reminisce about former successes. Here, Steve Swift, Tom Bolmer, Hartley Hoskins, and Ralph…
Read MoreGift from the Sea
In June, retired WHOI biologist George Hampson (center) joined a group of WHOI Summer Student Fellows on board the research vessel Tioga to teach them basic oceanographic data- and sample-collection…
Read MoreArctic Outlet
Photographer Chris Linder explores an outlet portal from the base of Greenland’s Leverette Glacier. The water flowing in the stream comes from melting on and in the glacier, which drains…
Read MoreForecasting Biology
WHOI senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy prepares a CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) rosette as part of a 2008 cruise to study conditions leading to periodic blooms of harmful algae in New…
Read MoreSurrounded by Work
It’s been 18 months since engineers took Alvin apart, a major undertaking involving submersible pilots Dave Walter (center) and Bruce Strickrott (right) as well as a host of WHOI engineers and…
Read MoreMaking an Impact
The MIT-WHOI Broader Impacts Group (BIG) hosted it’s inaugural event on June 19th at the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center. Invited guests included individuals from WHOI and other Woods Hole…
Read MoreDenizens of the Deep
WHOI microbial ecologist Virginia Edgcomb collected the organisms shown here in 2009 from the top of a deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake on the Mediterranean seafloor. The bright blue color comes…
Read MoreIn Their Own World
During an early-winter expedition to the Arctic led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Carin Ashjian, investigators used a video plankton recorder (VPR) to study tiny animal plankton in the…
Read MoreHands-on Lessons
Jesse McNichol (left) and Emily Moburg retrieve a rosette sampler to the deck of R/V Tioga during a recent cruise in Buzzards Bay. The two first-year MIT/WHOI Joint Program students…
Read MoreThe View from Greenland
A team of researchers that includes MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Ben Linhoff, approached Leverett Glacier on the southwestern edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Linhoff and his colleagues are…
Read MoreNew and Improved
Nearly 18 months after Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution engineers Dave Walter (left) and Bruce Strickrott took the deep sea submersible Alvin apart, they are now beginning to put it back…
Read MoreTaking Apart Brown Tide Algae
In the summer, a single-celled marine algae species often causes “brown tides” in estuaries along the U.S. East Coast, killing seagrass, decimating shellfish, and costing local economies millions of dollars.…
Read MoreA Lost Glory, Found
An underwater camera and lighting system devised by WHOI scientist Dan Fornari recently revealed part of the long-lost Pink Terraces near the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, New Zealand. The Pink…
Read MoreAnnual Phytoplankton Blooms in the North Atlantic
Get an in-depth look at the proceseses underlying the annual spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic.
Read MoreA Serendipitous Seafloor Sample
Roughing It, Greenland Style
Until early August, this is Ben Linhoff’s home in Greenland. Linhoff is a second-year graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program and is spending his second summer studying Leverett Glacier…
Read MoreBy the Siphonophore’s Red Glare
Happy Independence Day from WHOI and Athorybia rosacea, a siphonophore collected on a Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise off the U.S. East Coast. (Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreLet Construction Begin
With the completion of a new personnel sphere, the submersible Alvin is on the way to becoming a stronger, roomier, and more capable research submersible. After two years of design, construction,…
Read MoreTwin Sisters
Despite some differences in appearance, these are actually sister ships. R/V Wecoma (left) and R/V Oceanus are both operated by Oregon State University on behalf of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory…
Read MoreGovernor Patrick Visits WHOI
Last Fall, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited WHOI for the first time, touring several labs and learning about the Institution’s robotic vehicle development and ocean observing programs. Here WHOI Associate Scientist…
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