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Climbing High
WHOI physical oceanographer Anthony Kirincich climbs a ladder up the Air-Sea Interaction Tower at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MCVO). WHOI operates the MCVO, which collects and provides real-time coastal…
Read MoreEncouraging Diversity in Ocean Science
WHOI researcher Cindy Sellers (right) shows undergraduate students how to analyze seawater they had just sampled aboard WHOI’s research vessel Tioga in 2017. The students were part of the Summer…
Read MoreAwarding Achievement
Groundbreaking oceanographer Henry Stommel first came to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the 1944, less than 15 years after the Oceanographic’s founding. He remained affiliated with WHOI for much of…
Read MoreSpecial Guest
A very special guest visited the research vessel Atlantis during a port call in San Diego in December. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Walter Munk (seated) received a personal tour…
Read MoreCastle Walls
Through a microscope, this corrugated coral looks like a castle wall. Rather than repel invaders, the coral will catch and eat any of the little arrowhead-shaped crustaceans that get caught…
Read MoreA Cacophony of Sound
Sound waves, like these generated by a whale’s calls, propagate far within the ocean. But in shallow waters, sound is confined into a narrower channel between the sea surface and…
Read MoreReefscapes
WHOI coral reef ecologist Amy Apprill tends to a hydrophone setup used as part of an experiment in the U.S. Virgin Islands to study how free-swimming coral larvae pick the…
Read MoreImperial Honor
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (seated, center) prepared to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist and current scientist emeritus Susumu Honjo (standing, left) during a visit…
Read MoreAsa of All Trades
In 1972, research technician Asa Wing sewed yards of fine-mesh material into a giant, conical sampling net for WHOI biologist Richard Backus, The Falmouth Armory building provided the only smooth,…
Read MoreExport Expert
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right) deployed a sediment trap from the research vessel Roger Revelle in the fall of 2018 during the EXPORTS expedition in the Gulf of Alaska. EXPORTS (Export Processes…
Read MoreA Look Back
In January 1980, the human-occupied submersible Alvin made its 1,000th dive to the seafloor during an expedition to the Galapagos Rift. In November 2018, Alvin made its 5,000th dive. In…
Read MoreHoled Up
As part of his Semester at WHOI (SAW) working with WHOI scientist Joel Llopiz’s lab, Matt Stefanak, a senior at Middlebury College, collected fish larvae in St. John, U.S. Virgin…
Read MoreJust Another Day
The morning after the human-occupied submersible Alvin made its historic 5,000th dive, it made it’s 5,001st and continued its 50-plus years of scientific research and exploration of the deep ocean. (Photo…
Read MoreDive Partner
In July 1994, the 105-meter (345-foot) research vessel Yokosuka carrying the Shinkai 6500 submersible, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), visited WHOI after a joint expedition…
Read MoreDepth of Field
In the 1940s Dave Owen developed an interest in deep-sea photography–then a field in its infancy. During a cruise to the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas in 1947 aboard the original…
Read MoreWhales Have Their Own Dialects
Like different human social groups, short-finned pilot whales living off the coast of Hawai’i have their own sorts of vocal dialects, according to a new study by WHOI researchers. “It’s…
Read MoreA Kiss from a Clam
Giant clams of the Tridacna genus have muscular mantles whose tissue can come in splendid colors, such as this bright blue. Eight species of Tridacna, most threatened by overharvesting, live…
Read MoreListening in the Depths
Sound carries messages in the watery medium of the ocean. To listen in, scientists use underwater microphones, or hydrophones, to record calls from whales or sound waves from airguns towed…
Read MoreCrabs Help Solve Mystery
Fiddler crabs answered a question marine chemists and ecologists have long pondered: Does oil still have impacts on wildlife decades after it was spilled in a salt marsh? Researchers led…
Read MoreBottling Parasites
2018 WHOI Summer Student Fellow Emily Maness (foreground) and undergraduate summer student Sarah Lott collect water from Salt Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts. In the water are single-celled parasites that attack…
Read MoreRobotic Trailblazer
Shortly after a WHOI-French-led expedition found the wreck of Titanic on the seafloor in 1985, the Navy commissioned a return mission to test a small remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with…
Read MoreResplendent Coral
Viewed in polarized light and magnified 10 times, this thin-section sample of a skeleton of a Pacific reef-building coral, Acropora gemmifera, looks more like abstract art. The skeleton is made…
Read MoreSkeletons in the Corals
Nathan Mollica (left), a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, and WHOI scientist Weifu Guo examine a sample cored from the skeleton of a coral. They put the cores…
Read MoreDeep Sea Stamp of Approval
This souvenir envelope, called a dive cover, went to 2,013 meters in the ocean on dive 5,000 of the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin. Join WHOI, the USPS, and the DSV Alvin…
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