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Hands of a Master
Kent Sheasley, master of R/V Neil Armstrong maneuvered his ship to the dock in New York City to begin a port call during Fleet Week 2017. As an Ocean Class…
Read MoreHonoring the Graduates
WHOI held a reception on June 7, 2017, to honor 34 MIT-WHOI Joint Program who received their degrees over the past year, with thirteen attending. Front (from left): Guy Evans (holding his…
Read MoreOne Ship, Two Awards
At WHOI’s annual Employee Appreciation Celebration, the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong received the Penzance Award for “sustained exceptional performance, for outstanding representation of the WHOI spirit, and for major…
Read MoreMedicine from the Sea
These resin beads are part of a process that WHOI scientists have used to search for potential chemical compounds made by microbes in the ocean, which could help combat disease.…
Read MoreWatch Out
During a field trip to the Ocean Science Exhibit Center, a class from the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative watches video of a great white shark as seen from REMUS SharkCam. In…
Read MoreAll New, All Jason
Matthew Heintz gives WHOI Trustees and Corporation members a tour of Jason, the remotely operated deep-sea vehicle. Heintz, the program manager for the Jason operations group at WHOI, explained how…
Read MoreLand-Sea Connections
Guest investigator Kristina Brown, right, and research assistant Kate Morkeski troubleshoot a new dissolved inorganic carbon sensor in the lab of WHOI marine chemist Aleck Wang. In the Arctic, a…
Read MoreHeading Home at Dusk
WHOI’s coastal vessel R/V Tioga steams south through the Cape Cod Canal with Sagamore Bridge in the background, after a day working along the Massachusetts coast. Designed for coastal waters,…
Read MoreWhat Would the Ocean Say?
On World Oceans Day 2017, WHOI joined global leaders at the UN to spotlight the ocean.
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Collaboration
Dave Ralston (right) and Porter Hoagland talk with WHOI Trustees about New York’s Hudson River. The expansion of the Panama Canal has led to the dredging of New York Harbor…
Read MoreSettling Behavior
Marine reserves promote coral reef sustainability by preventing overfishing and increasing fish abundance and diversity. But to be effective, they need to be sized right, and in a way that…
Read MoreMonitoring the Tides
Crew on the R/V Connecticut load an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) for deployment in the Gulf of Maine to monitor for harmful algae, which can cause illnesses in humans when…
Read MoreOrganelle Snatchers
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Holly Moeller investigated a curious single-celled marine organism with a remarkable ability to behave both like an animal and a plant. The organism, called Mesodinium rubrum, typically graze…
Read MoreScientist Don Anderson Honored
WHOI Senior Scientist Don Anderson (center) recently received one of WHOI’s highest honors, the Bostwick H. Ketchum Award, in recognition of his dedicated and pioneering research on harmful algal blooms…
Read MoreCone of Sound
WHOI’s newest research vessel Neil Armstrong is among the first ships in the U.S. research fleet outfitted with a EK80 sonar system. Like a fish-finder, it emits sound waves that…
Read MoreWHOI and World War II
Al Woodcock (left) and an unidentified colleague test a device used to study the effectiveness of smoke screens to protect troops during beach landings in World War II. Woodcock was…
Read MoreDivers in the Midst
In February 2017, WHOI’s Dive Operations Manager Edward O’Brien (right) and visiting diver Giorgio Caramanna work in murky 39-degree water south of Martha’s Vineyard to deploy an instrument for scientists…
Read MoreBrave New World
The bow of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy plows a path through sea ice in the Beaufort Sea. Evidence of Earth’s changing climate is especially visible in the Arctic,…
Read MoreNew Beginnings
On June 7th, WHOI Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jim Yoder will preside over the 2017 graduate reception for the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Ocean Science and Engineering.…
Read MoreDeep-Sea Circulation
WHOI engineer Brian Hogue assembles a new aluminum frame around a Nobska MAVS-4 acoustic current meter. The frame helps to minimize turbulence around the current meter once it is installed…
Read MoreUniting for the Ocean
The president of the United Nations General Assembly, the Honorable Peter Thomson, recently toured WHOI and met with WHOI officials to discuss the UN Ocean Conference on June 5-9. WHOI will participate…
Read MoreWhere Plastic Went
Surface currents flow clockwise in the North Atlantic Ocean, forming the circular pattern called the North Atlantic subtropical gyre (black contour line). In 2010, scientist Kara Lavender Law of the…
Read MoreA Buried Past
WHOI researchers are trying to better understand future storms by studying the past, such as the hurricane of 1938, which devastated Cape Cod and killed hundreds. As a hurricane passes,…
Read MorePacking for Sea
WHOI engineering assistant Cody Meissner packed synthetic line in the WHOI Rigging Shop recently for a deployment, scheduled for autumn 2017, of an Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array surface mooring…
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