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Counting Copepods Before They Hatch
Freshly-laid eggs of copepods crowd a petri dish. During a cruise to the Bering Sea in 2009, WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian and colleagues studied the reproduction of the tiny crustaceans,…
Read MoreMicrobes: Chemists of the Ocean
WHOI/MIT Joint Program PhD candidate Kim Popendorf filters seawater to collect microbial cells onboard R/V Oceanus in 2008. Each filter can hold more than 250 million cells—equivalent to the population…
Read MoreGreen Turtle, Red Sea
While diving in the Red Sea in 2009, WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold encountered a green turtle on a reef about 25 miles from shore at the northern end of the Farasan Banks. Thorrold…
Read MoreSeldom Seen, Clearly Important
Salps are seldom seen by people, but these transparent animals are abundant plankton in the open ocean, and may affect the ocean’s carbon cycle. In alternating generations salps reproduce by…
Read MoreSunset at Sea
The sun sets behind RV Knorr during a cruise to the Bermuda Rise in 2011 to work on the Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment, or DynaMITE. Chief…
Read MoreMutual Aid
Electron micrograph shows different kinds of bacteria (dark ovals and smaller, lighter shapes) living inside compartments within a ciliated protist. Many marine protists that live in harsh habitats such as…
Read MoreColorful Cultures
Culture flasks containing marine microorganisms could be the source of new treatments for cystic fibrosis, through work recently begun by WHOI microbiologist Tracy Mincer and the Flatley Discovery Lab in…
Read MorePreparing to Go Deep
Saudi Arabian researchers Majdy Hamed Alharbi (left) and Muhammad Ali Al-Ghamdi gathered water samples during an autumn 2011 cruise in the eastern Red Sea. The cruise, lead by WHOI physical…
Read MoreWinter Break at WHOI
A group of undergraduate students came to WHOI to sample oceanography during their 2012 winter break, through the Institutions Ocean Research Experience (ORE) program. The students, from liberal arts colleges,…
Read MoreWHOI Diving in Photos
Plankton Portraits
Marine mammals, fish, and seabirds all depend on abundant tiny planktonic animals for food, especially krill and copepods, little drifting crustaceans that in turn eat much tinier single-celled organisms. WHOI…
Read MoreGliding Through the Ocean Blue
Nick Woods releases an autonomous underwater glider, a tool the MIT/WHOI Joint Program student has used to explore how rich feeding areas for marine animals are created in the ocean.…
Read MoreOpen for the Season
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center opens today for another season. Come and learn about the world of ocean science through videos and hands-on exhibits, and climb…
Read MoreA Journey North
In August 2011, research vessel Knorr left Iceland for the Denmark Strait to deploy a dozen moorings that will be collected one year later. Instruments on the moorings help WHOI…
Read MoreWide World of Science
Maya Yamato (left), a student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, talks with guests in the Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility on the Quissett campus. The guests were among a group…
Read MoreGetting the Goods
The manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle Jason inserts an injection pushcore into the soft sediment at the edge of a deep, anoxic brine basin in the Mediterranean Sea.…
Read MoreBoom Out
During a January expedition in the Caribbean Sea, WHOI shipboard technician Catie Graver used hand signals to guide the winch operator as he lowered a CTD rosette (for measuring conductivity, temperature,…
Read MoreDeep-ocean Workhorse
When WHOI geochemist Chris German assembled a sea-going science team in January that could put in long hours and not balk at work in cold, dark places, he called on…
Read MoreDrill, Baby, Drill
Alison Criscitiello removes the inner barrel of drill containing an ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Snow accumulates on the ice sheet in layers, so drilling deeper reveals…
Read MoreSimply Sophisticated
The crew aboard the USCGC Healy pushes a just-recovered mooring anchor away from the fantail during a 2011 cruise in the Chukchi-Beaufort Sea. While most mooring components are fairly sophisticated,…
Read MoreGot Krill?
Gentoo penguins and WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe share a common interest in Antarctica: krill. The tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans are food for the penguins and were the object of a month-long…
Read MoreClimate and Culture
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Camilo Ponton and WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan examine a sediment core they used to reconstruct the history of India’s monsoon over the past 10,000 years. Collected…
Read MoreMotion Beneath the Ocean
Scientists aboard the R/V Atlantis recover an ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS) off the Galapagos Islands. Seismographs measure movement in the Earth’s crust, and scientists use data from these instruments to calculate the…
Read MoreExtra-firm Pillow
This cross-section of a pillow lava shows pockets of whitish carbonate trapped within, suggesting that seafloor sediments might have been folded into the lava as it erupted. The sample is…
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