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WHOI machinist and resident facilitator D.C. Collasius (left) and Judson Poole, an engineer assistant, at work in the Dunkworks Lab—a state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping center that opened its doors last summer. The Center…
Read MoreStudents at Sea
Graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program went on the first orientation cruise aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong in September 2017, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz. For…
Read MoreHook, Line, and Mooring
Crew members aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer recover a subsurface flotation sphere of a Global Array mooring off the coast of Argentina. The subsurface moorings have sensors that…
Read MoreSeafloor Jigsaw Puzzle
In 1974, Project FAMOUS (French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) would take humans to explore the seafloor for the first time, using the human-occupied submersible Alvin. To reconnoiter the target area on a mid-ocean…
Read MoreOil Spill Forensics
When an oil spill occurs, WHOI marine geochemist Chris Reddy often flies to the spill site to collect oil samples. In this case, Reddy only had to walk down the street from…
Read MoreDigging Into the Ocean’s Past
Last September, WHOI paleoceanographer Lloyd Keigwin led an expedition to the Azores in the North Atlantic to study the geologic history of ocean currents. To do that, the scientists and…
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glass
WHOI biologist Nancy Copley (right) offers hands-on instruction on oceanographic sampling methods to undergraduates Craig Dawes from the New York City College of Technology and Jeanette Gray from Unity College.…
Read MoreStressed to a Fault
The island of Haiti is cut by the Enriquillo fault, the border between two of Earth’s tectonic plates—the Caribbean Plate, moving generally eastward, and the Gonave Microplate, moving westward. In…
Read MoreA QuadPod
WHOI engineer Kevin Manganini heads toward Martha’s Vineyard aboard the research vessel Discovery to deploy this undersea instrument, called a QuadPod. WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski is leading research to investigate…
Read MoreOver the Bounding Main
In blustery weather, technicians and scientists aboard the research vessel Endeavor recover an instrument called a CTD from waters south of Cape Cod in February 2018. The cruise was part…
Read MoreUndersea Volcano
This high-resolution map shows the seafloor topography of the caldera of the Havre volcano on the seafloor off the coast of New Zealand, which erupted in 2012. It was the…
Read MoreThe Splice Is Right
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue splices a line on the research vessel Neil Armstrong during a voyage from Woods Hole to a Global Array site in the Irminger Sea. The…
Read MoreSunrise Scientific Cruise
The sun rises off the bow off the research vessel Neil Armstrong during an expedition in the North Atlantic in September 2017 led by WHOI paleoceanographer Lloyd Keigwin. Scientists and…
Read MoreScientist in Training
The Semester at WHOI program gives juniors and seniors interested in science, math, and engineering the opportunity to come to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to do their own ocean-related research project.…
Read MoreWell-traveled Name
A work crew fits a boom to the new mizzen mast of the research vessel Atlantis in this undated WHOI Archives photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis…
Read MoreUnderwater Soundscapes
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Ashlee Lillis checks on snapping shrimp in a tank at the Institution’s Environmental Systems Laboratory. The shrimp have one oversized claw that they use to make a…
Read MoreGlider Away!
WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn assists with the launch of an ocean glider at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Coastal Pioneer Array, about 90 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The autonomous underwater…
Read MoreFrom Whales to Microbes
WHOI scientist Amy Apprill studies a wide range of marine life—from microorganisms to whales. In recent years, she has studied bacteria living on the skin of humpback whales to gauge…
Read MoreUnexpected and Unexploded
Munitions dropped decades ago on once desolate coasts often show up today in areas that have become more developed and inhabited. WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski is investigating where unexploded ordnances…
Read MoreThe Future Face of Science and Engineering
February 11 is the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For the past two years, WHOI scientist Anna Michel has brought sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle…
Read MoreAll Ahead
A.D. Colburn looks out from the bridge of the research vessel Atlantis as it left Woods Hole in October on his final trip as captain of the Global Class research vessel.…
Read MoreAn Ear in the Ocean
WHOI research engineer Rod Catanach wires a sound recorder on a coral reef off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Justin Suca used the instrument…
Read MoreSteady As It Goes
Jim Ryder of the WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group (left) steadies the line of a wire-following profiler, part of a Global Array mooring aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B.…
Read MoreReef Research
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station steers a research vessel over Dongsha’s coral reef in the South China Sea, where former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Tom DeCarlo conducted fieldwork.…
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