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A Straw Full of Mud Shake
Muddy sediment from beneath the seafloor pokes out of one of the first long cores collected by the new sampling system on the research vessel Knorr. Scientists use sediment cores…
Read MoreHairy Stowaway
While towing a phytoplankton net near the Vanuatu Islands for samples of the colonizing bacteria Trichodesium, researchers caught a straggler a barnacle attached to a floating piece of pumice. Though…
Read MoreTaking the Bus Home from School
Exhuasted from two days of survival camp, researchers and explorers ride slowly back to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station in an oversized transport vehicle. Each person was required to learn to build…
Read MoreFly Through Brothers Volcano
Fly through Brothers Volcano, home to one of the largest hydrothermal vent fields, in this dramatic 3D view built from high-resolution seafloor mapping data.
Read MoreFly Through the Kermadec Arc
Take a fly-through over New Zealand’s Kermadec Arc, from Ngatoro Rift Basins to Brothers Volcano, with stunning 3D bathymetry revealing the seafloor’s secrets.
Read MoreTaking Junior for a Swim
The coastal research vessel Tioga leaves Woods Hole’s Great Harbor with the autonomous underwater vehicle SeaBED strapped to its stern. Tioga is frequently used as a platform for taking new…
Read MoreKeeping a High Profile
Sarah Treanor (holding the tall stadial rod) and Laura Domyancich (peering through the siting level) of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation make dune and beach profiling observations with Sarah Oktay (standing…
Read MoreCan You Spell Seasick?
Alvin swimmer Patrick Neumann holds on tight and talks to the sub’s occupants as they rock and roll in windy conditions in January 2007 at the East Pacific Rise. Ken…
Read MoreCan You Hear Me Now?
An Adélie penguin bends low to check on its eggs, which are snuggled into the warm skin and feathers between its legs (look closely and you can see an eggshell…
Read MoreDetour for a Good Cause
Endangered right whales congregate in Cape Cod Bay, particularly from December through May, while an average of seven passenger or cargo vessels pass through the area each day. Using five…
Read MoreRaise a Tall Glass
Working in open water in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito deploys a water sampler from the R/V Nathaniel Palmer. The object of the CORSACS project (Controls On Ross…
Read MoreSetting the Hook and Fishing Line
Engineering assistant Sean Whelan assembles a mooring hook (left) and acoustic release (yellow tube) for a tricky equipment recovery operation at sea. WHOI technicians and engineers have developed their own…
Read MoreClamping Down
Technicians, scientists, and crew all chip in to put davit clamps onto the core barrel of the long core system on the research vessel Knorr in September 2007. The clamps…
Read MoreHarboring Pollution
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Jed Goldstone (left) teaches summer student fellows Thiago Parente (center) and Katie Barott to sample killifish near an EPA Superfund site in New Bedford Harbor. Goldstone and…
Read MorePolar Bear Club
Undeterred by a snowstorm, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Michael Holcomb (red hood), research assistant Byron Pedler, and assistant scientist Ben Van Mooy (kneeling) recover experimental plates that had been suspended…
Read More2007 Postdoctoral Symposium
No Place Like Home
The research vessel Oceanus arrives back at home port on the Iselin Marine Facility in Woods Hole following a successful cruise to retrieve the GUSTO, CLIMODE, and wave monitoring technology…
Read MoreBlack Tie Optional
The penguins on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean entertained and inspired WHOI Associates during an educational pleasure cruise to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Sub-Antarctic Islands in the winter…
Read MoreThe Irminger Sea Buoy
It takes a tough buoy to stand tall when tip jets howl off the Greenland ice cap.
Read MorePicking Up the Pieces
Research technicians and ship’s crew work to recover the bottom section of a CLIMODE mooring from the Gulf Stream in October 2007. From the background (stern of the ship): senior…
Read MoreTake a Bow
On a calm day during the RESET 06 expedition in the Pacific Ocean which took a place in response to a volcanic eruption at the 9ºN vent site on the…
Read MoreMarking Time (Geologic)
WHOI research associate Terry Hammar (left) and research specialist Al Gagnon label sections of core tube prior to loading them into the barrel of the long core system on R/V…
Read MoreStay Focused
Laser light from a Raman spectrometer shines into a vial of water in Sheri White’s laboratory, focusing about mid-way through the sample. White and colleagues are using Raman spectroscopy to…
Read MoreAny cysts in the there?
Postdoctoral fellow Luciano Fernandes of the WHOI Biology Department handles a mud sample plucked from the Gulf of Maine during an October 2007 cruise on the research vessel Oceanus. As…
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