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Homing in on Reef Homes
Justin Suca holds a translucent young mantis shrimp off the Caribbean island of St. John where he does field work. Suca, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in…
Read MoreCall of the Wild
An Atlantic white-sided dolphin jumps alongside the research vessel Neil Armstrong off the Massachusetts coast. These animals spend most of their lives in deep waters but are known to strand off…
Read More24/7 Science at Sea
This buoy is part of a Coastal Surface Mooring, one of the ten scientific moorings in the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Wind turbines and solar panels…
Read MoreLunge Feeding
Seagulls circle above as a humpback whale opens its mouth wide to take a great gulp of food-filled water, a behavior known as lunge feeding. The whale will filter the…
Read MoreTracking Fukushima Radioactivity
In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, WHOI geochemist Ken Buesseler organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes from…
Read More88 Years Young
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded on this date in 1930, following the recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. The chairman of the committee, Frank…
Read MoreDigging for Radioactivity
Former WHOI post-doctoral scientist Virginie Sanial sampled groundwater beneath beaches in Japan to look for radioactive cesium-137 from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant accident. To her surprise, she and colleagues found…
Read MoreBleached Coral
A coral at Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea shows the effects of “bleaching.” The phenomenon occurs when ocean temperatures rise and the colorful symbiotic algae hosted in coral tissue…
Read MoreLong Haul
Crabs and shrimp investigate a cast-steel anchor for a mooring resting 125 meters below the surface at the Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory off the Massachusetts coast operated by WHOI and…
Read MoreSnap Chatter
Snapping shrimp usually look something like tiny lobsters, with one front claw much larger than the other. They use their supersized appendage to make a characteristic snapping sound, which may…
Read MoreWorth the Wade
Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma collects shellfish samples in Cape Cod’s Barnstable Harbor as part of a study to determine how much nitrogen they incorporate into their…
Read MorePioneer Turnaround
Twice a year, the R/V Neil Armstrong makes quick trips to service the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array. Watch a 28-hour port turnaround in a 3½-minute timelapse.
Read MoreHarvesting Fuels from the Sea
WHOI biologist Scott Lindell (left) stands within two large yellow trusses—key infrastructure for a commercial-scale seaweed farm in Nantucket Sound—with colleagues Cliff Goudey, Dom Manganelli, and Zack Moscicki from C.A. Goudey…
Read MoreChile Waters
It takes a village of scientists, engineers, and ship’s crew to conduct a research expedition like this off the coast of Chile in February 2017. The expedition’s chief scientist, Jeff…
Read MoreClues to Past Climates
Scientists long use tubes to core sediments from the seafloor—like this one pulled from Indonesia’s Makassar Strait. The sediments contain chemical and other clues that provide a historical snapshot of…
Read MoreGlider Entry
A Spray glider enters the water off the coast of Miami in September 2017, days before the arrival of Hurricane Irma. The glider flew back and forth across the current as…
Read MoreSetting Out
A view from the bow deck of the 60-foot coastal research vessel Tioga. Traveling at speeds of up to 20 knots, Tioga is a speedy, sturdy workhorse for marine research on…
Read MoreFire on the Water
Natural gas piped up from a severed wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is flared off by a ship during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Responders had to don…
Read MoreMerry Christmas 2017
Christmas tree worms, named for their resemblance to decorated holiday trees, are tiny, segmented worms that grow slowly and live up to four decades in a single location once they…
Read MoreSummer Sentinel
MIT undergraduate student Zach Duguid spent the summer of 2017 working in a lab run by WHOI scientist Rich Camilli. As a Summer Student Fellow, Duguid focused on an independent…
Read MoreGlacial Torrent
In 2012, 98 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet‘s surface area melted for several days, sending torrents of meltwater down glaciers near the coast. Rising meltwaters and icebergs also tore…
Read MoreA Mooring Under Ice
See how scientists use moorings beneath ice to measure currents, ice thickness, water temperature, and salinity.
Read MoreYellowstone Hot Spot
Millions of visitors to Yellowstone National Park marvel at its colorful pools, bubbling springs, and steaming geysers and fumaroles. What they may not appreciate is that these features are just…
Read MoreAquaculture Master Class
WHOI biologist Scott Lindell (far right) and research assistant David Bailey (center) traveled to Morocco recently, where they worked with members of the National Agency for the Development of Aquaculture…
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