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A Slice of the Ocean
During a visit to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, two future ocean scientists watch a demonstration of how salinity affects the density of water. Higher salinity makes water denser. As this…
Read MoreNeil Armstrong Takes New York
The research vessel Neil Armstrong, shown here working off the North Carolina coast on the Processes driving Exchange at Cape Hatteras (PEACH) project, will participate in Fleet Week in New York City this…
Read MoreLife Below the Waterline
WHOI biologists Peter Wiebe (standing), Joel Llopiz (left) and Chrissy Hernandez, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, watch as data from sensors on the hull of R/V Neil Armstrong scroll across…
Read MoreTo the Breaking Point
Engineering assistant Barbara Callahan operates the computer interface of a hydraulic tensile machine in WHOI’s rigging shop, as shop manager Rick Trask looks on. Callahan and Trask were testing the…
Read MoreUnder Ice
The lights of the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereid Under Ice (NUI) shine beneath an ice floe during a 2016 cruise to search for life on the Arctic sea floor.…
Read MoreAfter Dark in the Park
A team of researchers worked well past sunset on the shore of Yellowstone Lake in 2016 to section and catalog a core they had taken from the lake bed earlier…
Read MoreDeep Garden
The research vessel Atlantis and human-occupied submersible Alvin were in the far north in July 2002 on a cruise supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The mission was to visit six unexplored…
Read MoreStudent Out of Water
Alexandra Labella, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, analyzes a sediment core sample in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly. Labella is one of many students who work at WHOI…
Read MoreSunrise In The Arctic
Sunrise comes to Sachs Harbour, a village on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic that in 2014 was a research hub and equipment center for scientists studying sea ice. WHOI…
Read MoreMother on Board
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue changes the rigging on top of a subsurface float, part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array in the South Atlantic Ocean. In the past,…
Read MoreThe Freshest Sushi
Research cruises, like life, are full of surprises. The ocean can offer up unexpected storms—or in this case, the freshest sushi you’ll ever taste. Aboard the WHOI-operated research vessel Neil…
Read MoreAssociated With Ocean Science
Kathy Patterson, manager of the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center, gives a demonstration about water density at a recent reception for members of the WHOI Associates Program and supporters. The program offers…
Read MoreThe Real Big Blue
Sometimes you have to get into the remote environment where marine organisms live to study them: WHOI biologists Larry Madin and Richard Harbison were part of a small group in…
Read MoreScientist Of Many Hats
In the 1950s William C. Schroeder was photographed displaying a deep-sea fish called a chimaera that he had collected. Schroeder—a fisheries biologist who held positions at WHOI and Harvard and…
Read MoreDiving Into the Past
WHOI Archivist Dave Sherman examines film captured during the 153rd dive aboard the Human-Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin. Alvin was commissioned in 1964 and has been instrumental in exploring ocean environments…
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Stressful Times
When water temperatures get too warm, corals expel their algal symbionts, a process known as coral bleaching. Without symbionts to provide food, corals can starve and die. This computerized tomography…
Read MoreAnimals Behaving Like Plants
Meet a curious single-celled organism called Mesodinium rubrum. They are shaped like “8”s with hairlike cilia around them that they use to swim in the ocean. They usually graze on…
Read MoreC-3PO, Meet RPV-340
When WHOI’s Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) was established in 1983, WHOI scientists Bob Ballard (right) and Dana Yoerger used a small vehicle called RPV-430, built by Benthos, Inc., as a…
Read MoreA Symbiotic Superorganism
WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill says there’s more to coral reefs than just corals and fish. Reefs also teem with microscopic life—bacteria, archaea, viruses and algae. There are even bacteria that…
Read MoreA Million Microbes
A million microbes may live in a single drop of seawater—producing, consuming, and excreting various chemical compounds. Scientists are closely examining this stew of compounds dissolved in the ocean to…
Read MoreEyes on Both Coasts
OceanCube is an autonomous underwater coastal observatory that provides real-time data and images from a variety of biological, physical, and chemical sensors. A team from WHOI led by biologist Scott…
Read MoreStunning Stinger
For such small, delicate creatures, they pack mighty painful stings. Known as a clinging jellyfish because they attach to seagrasses and seaweeds, Gonionemus are found along Pacific and Atlantic coast…
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