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Dispersants in Deepwater Horizon
During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon crisis, officials made the unprecedented and controversial decision to inject more than 700,000 gallons of chemical dispersant over 67 days immediately above the severed wellhead at…
Read MoreAn Engine Room Tour
Kent Sheasley (right), captain of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, gives a tour of the ship’s engine room to visiting journalists in the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. The…
Read MoreDeclining Sea Ice
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy steams through “pancake” sea ice in the Arctic Ocean in October 2013. WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart led the cruise to complete a ten-year…
Read MoreDeep-Sea Camera
The WHOI TowCam is a deep-sea camera system that is towed by a cable from a ship so that it flies near the seafloor and can obtain digital images, as…
Read MoreHop Scotch on Ice
In 1978, a team of Russian scientists including WHOI senior scientist Andrey Proshutinksy (third from the right) took to the sky in a single-engine Antonov-2 biplane to observe sea ice…
Read MoreHands-on Science
WHOI assistant scientist Erin Fischell showed visiting member of a U.S. Army youth leadership group some of the autonomous underwater vehicles she uses in her research. Fischell, who graduated from…
Read MoreDiving for Data
Bosun Pete Liarikos (left) and UNOLS technician Drew Cole recover an ocean glider from the water onto research vessel Neil Armstrong on a recent trip to the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s…
Read MoreA Seagoing Tradition Comes to a Close
The family of A.D. Colburn waved good-bye from the end of the WHOI dock as R/V Atlantis departed on AD’s final trip as master of the ship recently. The son…
Read MoreOne Last Look
An ice-tethered profiler (ITP) takes one last look at the sky before passing through four meters of ice in the Beaufort Sea to begin a study of ocean physics, biology,…
Read MoreAnother Day, Another Departure
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, R/V Neil Armstrong departed Woods Hole on the first of three trips to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array 100 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.…
Read MoreWomen Take the Helm
WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya spoke about her work with autonomous underwater REMUS vehicles at the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) Symposium at WHOI last fall. This year’s SWMS…
Read MoreField Gear
What do you do when you have to do fieldwork on Halloween? You put your costume on early. Members of WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group did just that yesterday during a…
Read MoreHappy Hallow-Marine
A pair of anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) take shelter in a pumpkin-shaped sea anemone on a coral reef in the Red Sea. Despite their seemingly frightful home, anemonefish are immune to…
Read MoreWho’s On First?
This summer, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer hung plastic panels off the WHOI pier and a dock at Eel Pond in Woods Hole, to learn what organisms would settle on…
Read MoreHats Off
These air-filled glass spheres encased in a protective polyethylene “hard hat,” are used to keep mooring lines upright, taut, and off the seafloor. This string of floats, was deployed recently…
Read MoreThe Way Things Were
WHOI’s Bigelow Lab on Water St. in Woods Hole, Mass., was WHOI’s first building and is named for the Institution’s first director, Henry Bryant Bigelow. The original plans called for…
Read MoreCoral Investigators
Researchers Paul Henderson (left) and Luis Vasquez-Bedoya collect coral samples from a large reef in the waters off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Corals build their skeletons over time from calcium carbonate…
Read MoreWindow into the Depths
Jefferson Grau inspected a viewport prior to installation on the human-occupied submersilble Alvin during a major upgrade completed in 2014. He was looking for bubbles or inclusions such as bits…
Read MoreShip’s Shape
In December 2013, workers at the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Wash., joined two sections of hull to begin shaping WHOI’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong. Over the following…
Read MoreNorthward, Ho
WHOI research engineer Casey Machado from the Deep Submergence Laboratory gently lowered what was then the group’s newest vehicle, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), into a test pool in 2015. The hybrid…
Read MoreA Well-traveled Hat
The ocean gained a powerful voice recently when Peter Thomson was appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to be the first special envoy for the oceans. In his previous position…
Read MoreHeave-ho
Crew members aboard WHOI’s original research vessel Atlantis, which supported oceanographic research from 1931 to 1964, work together to hoist the ship’s anchor. In those days, the task was time…
Read MoreEyes On High
Bosun Patrick Hennessy watched a dock crew unmoor R/V Atlantis as the ship prepared to leave Woods Hole recently. As bosun, Hennessy is responsible for deck and over-the-side operations on…
Read MoreAdvanced Technology, Advanced Research
WHOI Associate Scientist Elizabeth Kujawinski (right) and research specialist Melissa Kido Soule acquaint themselves with a new mass spectrometer in Kujawinski’s lab. The two have used similar technology in the…
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