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A Fish In Hand
Stony Brook University marine biologist Hannes Baumann holds a hatchetfish brought to the surface in a net trawl off the northeast coast of Japan in June. Baumann and 16 other…
Read MoreReady for Launch
Fred Wendt of IFM Geomar and WHOI research specialist Mark Dennett (partially hidden) inspect the REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle owned by the WAITT Institute as it is positioned on…
Read MoreREMUS Away
WHOI senior engineering assistant Greg Packard (far left) helps launch a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle in April 2011. The vehicle, owned by the Waitt Institute, was taking part in…
Read MoreBy the Jelly’s Red Glare
Have a bioluminescent Independence Day!(Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreResisting a Mess
How do animals develop resistance to toxic pollutants? WHOI biologist Mark Hahn and Isaac Wirgin of New York University have been studying how Atlantic tomcod have adapted to high levels…
Read MoreVisit from an Admiral
Rob Munier, left, WHOI vice president for marine facilities and operations, talks to Admiral Gary Roughead, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), during his visit to WHOI in June. In…
Read MoreTroubled Waters
In June 2010 WHOI personnel investigated the fate of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. WHOI’s ABE/Sentry group and scientists Rich Camilli and Chris…
Read MoreShallow Water Diving
Scuba gives researchers time and access to study reefs, fish, and seafloor up close.
Read MoreScience in the Fast Lane
Life aboard a research vessel moves quickly. In this time-lapse photo from the R/V Knorr, Chief Scientist Ruth Curry oversees the deployment of the High Resolution Profiler (HRP) in the western…
Read MoreHow Old? The Carbon Knows
Karl von Reden, staff physicist, is shown working at the WHOI-based National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. The facility is used to carbon date organic and inorganic material…
Read MoreA Rising Tide
WHOI’s Fiamma Straneo explores how ocean conditions affect Greenland’s melting glaciers—and the challenges of Arctic research.
Read MoreTwo Thumbs Up
In April 2011 aboard NOAA’s ship R/V McArthur II, WHOI engineer John Bailey (left) and researcher Miles Saunders (Penn State) signal that TowCam is ready to go back into the…
Read MoreIn Your Face
An up-close view of this sea creature gives an impression of squirmy tentacles and bars of metallic light, like a monster from a summer movie. The tentacles are actually sensory…
Read MoreGraduating with a Special Honor
Graduating MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Abby Heithoff (center) received the Panteleyev Award from Associate Dean Meg Tivey and Dean Jim Yoder at the 2011 Joint Program Graduate Reception in June.…
Read MoreSeafood Supply Discussed
In May, Hauke Kite-Powell of the WHOI Marine Policy Center convened a range of experts in a colloquium to discuss economic and policy aspects of U.S. seafood supply, trends in…
Read MoreFrom Pac-Man to the Seafloor
WHOI/MIT graduate student Clay Kunz looks for a better way to build an underwater robot.
Read MoreTag, You’re It
Scientists have long been able to tag animals on land and follow their movements and habits. But tagging and tracking fish, like this spinecheek anemonefish, through vast oceans is a Herculean task.…
Read MoreThe Better to See You With
A bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) casts a wary eye on WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold, who photographed this and many other species during a recent research trip to the coral…
Read MoreMicrobial Life
Sleepy Sepia?
A cuttlefish (Sepia sp.) appears to be dozing above a coral reef in Kimbe Bay in Papua, New Guinea. WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold has been working in the area as…
Read MoreOn the Path To an Ocean Observing Network
The week of May 16th, a panel of nearly 150 leaders of large research infrastructure programs visited WHOI for the Annual Review Meeting for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). This…
Read MoreJellyfish & Other Zooplankton
Shellfish
On the Move
WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Kakani Katija studies the power sources that propel water movement in oceans. Katija’s evidence in biogenic ocean mixing shows that the movements of sea creatures could have…
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