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Home for the summer
The picturesque port of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland served as home base for scientists investigating conditions in a glacial fjord for two months in 2008. Led by physical oceanographer Fiamma…
Read MoreUnsung heroine brings science to students
Amy Bower (in orange jacket), of the WHOI Physical Oceanography department, hosts a group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind. Bower, who is legally blind, collaborates with…
Read MoreA commanding audience
Students in the Naval Command College get a firsthand view of the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry from WHOI engineer Rod Catanach during a recent visit to the Institution. The NCC…
Read MoreAll paws on deck
Atlantis sheltered a number of cats over the years, including this one held by Atlantis second mate (and photographer) Don Fay during a 1935 research cruise. One cat deserted a…
Read MoreA superbreeder?
During a 2007 expedition to Antarctica, scientists travelled to Ross Island to study the biology of the frigid, bountiful Ross Sea through the eyes of Adélie penguins. Small aluminum identification…
Read MoreRoughing it
WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz recovers a CTD rosette in heavy weather north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 2005. Gale or storm conditions prevailed during the entire cruise, damaging…
Read MoreVisit from Chief of Naval Operations
CNO Admiral Gary Roughead visits WHOI.
Read MoreInto thin ice
Bow lights show the way as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy streaks through slim pancake ice in the nighttime Bering Sea. After long, dark winters, sunlight returns to the…
Read MoreHappy World Oceans Day
Earth is an ocean planet. More than 70% of its surface is covered by ocean with an average depth of just over two miles. But how much water is there…
Read MoreAdieu to ABE
The Autonomous Benthic Explorer, fondly known as ABE, was lost at sea March 5, 2010, on an expedition off the coast of Chile during its 222nd research dive. Built as…
Read MoreHolography and Oceanography
An audio slideshow on a new way to use lasers to reveal tiny sea life
Read MoreHere come the graduates
Margaret Boettcher (carrying belaying pin) and Joanna Wilson (carrying daughter Raynham) make their way in procession to the 2005 commencement ceremony of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied…
Read MoreSwimming peacock
A peacock grouper (Cephalopholus argus) swims along the Farasan Banks in June 2009. WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold and international colleagues were there to conduct an ecological survey of corals and…
Read MoreA view from the bridge
It’s just another relatively routine autumn day in the North Atlantic for the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr. On an expedition to the Irminger Sea in October 2007, scientists and crew…
Read MoreDangerous ice
During a four week expedition aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star in the summer of 2002, scientists and sailors battled Arctic Ocean ice to observe one of the…
Read MoreGood day at black rock
Blair Paul, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, gently scrapes biological specimens from a chunk of asphalt that had been at the bottom of the Santa…
Read MoreSeeing the light
Prior to deployment, Senior Engineering Assistant Scott Worrilow checks the ARGOS beacon transmitter on a subsurface buoy. The buoy system is deployed with the transmitter in a standby mode that…
Read MoreA Preview of Coral Spawning
Assistant scientist Ann Tarrant dissects coral fragments and scans microscopic images for signs of egg development. Tarrant is working with research specialist Anne Cohen and postdoc investigator Neal Cantin to…
Read MoreHall of Science
Cyndy Chandler (center) and Tobias Work (right) talk with Alexander Smirnov (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Roshydromet, Russian Federation) during a poster session at the International Conference on Marine Data…
Read MoreNight gulls, not owls
Two Galapagos Swallow Tailed Gulls soar in the sky above the R/V Atlantis during a 2010 expedition. The birds, which are the only fully nocturnal gulls and seabirds in the…
Read MoreSetting up an Arctic camp
The REMUS research crew in Barrow, Alaska, had to construct this camp–Ice Camp No. 2–because their first one was taken down by a traveling iceberg the night before.The WHOI team,…
Read MoreShipmates
The research vessel Atlantis at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) dock in 1959 along with the Calypso — a former British Royal Navy Minesweeper converted into a research vessel…
Read MoreCalling all sea squirt scientists!
Participants in the third International Invasive Sea Squirt Conference, held at WHOI April 26-28, 2010, pose for a commemorative shot. Sea squirts — or tunicates — are spongey, sack-like filter…
Read MoreThree deep in the museum
A full-scale model of the submersible Alvin (left) hangs in the US Navy Yard Museum in Washington, D.C., alongside the bathyscaphe Trieste (right), which, in 1960, made the only manned…
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