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In 2013 New England Aquarium whale researcher and WHOI guest investigator Salvatore Cerchio and his colleagues discovered some of the world’s rarest whales living off Madagascar. Omura’s whales, recognized as…
Read MoreLife Deep Down Under
Fungal colonies grow on culture dishes inoculated with samples of sediments extracted from hundreds of feet beneath the seafloor. WHOI microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb explores what life forms may be living…
Read MoreSwift and Steady
Earlier this year, scientists and crewmembers aboard the R/V Tioga retrieved an underwater mooring from Nomans Land, a small island south of Martha’s Vineyard near the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory…
Read MoreCoral Alignment
WHOI biogeochemist Konrad Hughen aligns segments of coral skeleton cored with a special underwater drill from a boulder coral off an island in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean.…
Read MoreA SEA-worthy Reunion
Four WHOI employees who are alumni of the Sea Education Association’s SEA Semester, found themselves aboard the R/V New Horizon in 2012. From left, mooring technician Meghan Donohue, information systems…
Read MoreLearning by Jetyak
Students in a small motorboat (left) use a gas-powered kayak known as a Jetyak to measure dissolved methane and other water properties of the North River in Marshfield, Mass., this…
Read MoreSeeing Into the Arizona
WHOI Alvin pilot Mike Skowronski (left) took time off from his “day job” to pilot a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, as Evan…
Read MoreHigh-pressure Sip
The manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle Jason positions an Isobaric Gas-Tight sampler (IGT) to collect bacteria-rich fluids flowing from a hydrothermal vent site in the Pacific Ocean. IGT samplers,…
Read MoreCorals and Their Microbial Neighbors
Laura Weber, Ph.D. student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies the microscopic organisms that inhabit the seawater surrounding coral reefs. She wants to know how corals and microbes living in…
Read MoreWoman’s Work
After a long day deploying scientific equipment from the deck of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer, WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue waits in the darkness for the go-ahead to…
Read MoreJason Gets An Upgrade
WHOI engineers examine the underside of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason while prepping it for tests on the WHOI dock. A $2.4 million upgrade by the National Science Foundation (NSF) made…
Read MoreBig Fish Bite?
WHOI physical oceanographer Amy Bower uses Range and Fixing of Sound (RAFOS) floats like this one to track the movement of water in the ocean. The float drifts with currents…
Read MoreCore Principles
WHOI biogeochemist Konrad Hughen (left) and research assistant Justin Ossolinski use a special underwater drill to take a core sample from a boulder coral off an island in the Chagos…
Read MoreSetting Her Sights on Science
WHOI senior scientist Britt Raubenheimer gets help recovering an ultrasonic sensor she deployed near Duck, N.C., to measure beach erosion and waves during Hurricane Matthew. Raubenheimer lost her sight more…
Read MoreLeave a Light On
WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz sets a trap containing a small LED light above a coral reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands to capture fish and invertebrate larvae. During the night,…
Read MoreRobots and Red Tide
Nauset Marsh on Cape Cod occasionally develops harmful algal blooms (HABs) that can shut down shellfishing. To better understand how blooms spread, WHOI biologists Taylor Crockford, Heidi Sosik and Rob…
Read MoreReady for Research
During a rare appearance together at the WHOI dock one foggy day this summer, the research vessels Atlantis and Neil Armstrong are prepped to steam to their next research locations:…
Read MorePingo Bingo
Tuktoyaktuk means “Land of the Caribou” in the Inuvialuit language, which explains the sculpture, but it’s the landscape that interests MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Lauren Kipp. Kipp traveled to the…
Read MoreGobbling Deep-sea Robot
Even while conducting research out in the Pacific Ocean, far from family and friends, it’s still Thanksgiving for U.S. scientists and crew members, and they always look for ways to…
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving
On research cruises that overlap holidays, scientists and ship’s crew still try to mark the occasion with decorations, celebrations, and, most importantly, special meals. Former mess attendant Kathryn Eident here…
Read MoreInspiring the Next Generation
As part of Falmouth High School’s annual career day, WHOI scientists and engineers step up to inspire the next generation. Rather than travel to the classroom, the scientists and engineers…
Read MoreScience in All Sizes
Antarctic science comes in all sizes. In 2006 two research ships and an inflatable boat, all carrying scientists, were juxtaposed against the slopes of volcanic Deception Island off Antarctica: the…
Read MoreScience Close-up
Physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz (right), at WHOI’s Iselin Dock test well, is interviewed by CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan for a story about hurricanes. Over Labor Day weekend, Gawarkiewicz led…
Read MoreThe Wind Cube
WHOI scientist Anthony Kirincich (right) and Matthew Filippelli from AWS Truepower, Inc., install a Wind Cube device atop WHOI’s 76-foot Air-Sea Interaction Tower two miles off Martha’s Vineyard. The Wind…
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