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Ready to Fly
The video plankton recorder, shown on deck at right, resembles a small airplane. In fact, it does fly—in the water. In August 2011, the German research vessel Maria S. Merian…
Read MoreUntethering Communications
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason rests on the deck of the R/V Atlantis in August 2011 following a day of successful test dives with a new communications and control…
Read MoreLife on Seamounts
Life on Seamounts
Clouds at the Bottom of the Sea
A photo taken by a camera on the remotely operated vehicle Jason reveals the weird, murky world of Urania Basin, an anoxic, super-salty “lake” 3.5 kilometers deep in the eastern…
Read MoreNautical Reunion
In the 1950s and 60s it was rare to see four WHOI-operated ships docked at the same time in Woods Hole, their home port. The vessels, normally ranging around the…
Read MoreWelcome Aboard, SID-ISMS
WHOI researchers Craig Taylor and Ginny Edgcomb wheel SID-ISMS, a new water column sampler, to the main lab of R/V Atlantis in preparation for their 2011 research cruise in the…
Read MoreGrabbing for Samples
German researchers Falk Pollehne (left) and Michael Zettler of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research prepare a Van Veen bottom grab sampler during an August 2011 research cruise off the…
Read MoreCoral Reef Fish
Coral Research
One Cool Colony
Some friends of the Institution recently joined Newt Merrill, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Susan K. Avery, WHOI’s President and Director; and Susan Humphris, Senior Scientist in the Geology & Geophysics…
Read MoreQuick Pit Stop
Moments after the SID-ISMS (Submerged Incubation Device-In Situ Microbial Sampler) returned from beneath the Mediterranean Sea, an international team of scientists hurried to remove the samples it brought back and…
Read MoreFunny Name, Serious Mission
Engineering Assistant Jim Dunn (foreground) lowers a benthic acoustic release frame (BARF) into the test tank at WHOI’s Coastal Research Lab while colleagues Eric Drange (left) and Jeff Pietro observe.…
Read MoreAlvin Workspace Simulation
Alvin has two robotic arms that can manipulate instruments and obtain samples ranging from hard-rock geology to delicate biology
Read MoreInside WHOI
Woods Hole Oceanographic, the world’s largest, non-profit ocean science research and education institution.
Read MoreA Pair of Firsts
Atlantis, the first ship used at WHOI for multidisciplinary ocean research, docked in Woods Hole in the 1950s near the Bigelow Laboratory. (The building was the first built for the…
Read MoreTight Sampling Deadline
During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the U.S. Coast Guard arranged for a small group of WHOI researchers to be transferred from a research vessel in the Gulf…
Read MoreStrike Up the Band
Occasionally when a WHOI ship returns to Woods Hole, the Institution’s Brass Ensemble helps give the crew and science party a rousing welcome home. From left to right: Alex Dorsk…
Read MoreMany-headed Computer
Jeff Dusenberry stands in front of Scylla, a high performance computer cluster containing a total of 984 processors that was installed at WHOI in June 2011. Named after the many-headed…
Read MoreCrawford
Crawford, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter, came to WHOI in 1956. Crawford made 175 cruises, worked in the North and South Atlantic, and carried specialized gear for studying hurricanes.…
Read MoreCoring Coral
Using SCUBA gear so she can remain submerged, Joint Program student Hannah Barkley drills into a coral colony in Palau to extract a core sample of the skeleton. Analyzing the…
Read MoreLulu
Though small, slow, and described by one author as looking a bit like a floating junkyard, Lulu secured a spot in WHOI history as the original support vessel for the…
Read MoreMerry Christmas from WHOI
A buoy on the original R/V Atlantis decorated for the holidays. Seasons greetings and happy holidays from everyone at WHOI. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
Read MoreHome for Christmas
On the morning of December 23, R/V Knorr tied up at the WHOI dock after an 11-day crossing from Cape Verde. The ship left Woods Hole on November 6 on…
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