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Wheel Not Included
A group of WHOI Associates took a tour in June of the bridge of WHOI’s newest research vessel, Neil Armstrong, where Second Mate Mike Singleton showed them the surprisingly small…
Read MoreBelly of the Buoy
WHOI engineering assistants Brian Kelly (left) and Steve Caldwell (inside the buoy frame) mount instruments on the bottom of a large surface buoy destined for the South Atlantic Ocean off…
Read MoreWhat You Can’t See
R/V Neil Armstrong passed this iceberg as the ship approached one of the OSNAP (Overturning in the Sub-polar North Atlantic Program) mooring sites east of Greenland last week. Deep-keeled ice…
Read MoreNet Returns
Researcher Phil Alatalo (second from left) helps students aboard WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga rinse down a plankton net. Students in two undergraduate programs—the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship Program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education…
Read MoreChemistry on Ice
Members of the 2016 Geodynamics Seminar rest after a 12-mile hike at the terminus of Skeiðarárjökull, on the southern edge of Iceland’s largest ice cap. Each year, the seminar takes an in-depth,…
Read MoreIn the Palm of Her Hand
On a windy April day, Joint Program student Lei Ma (center) shows a tiny hermit crab to fellow students Kevin Archibald and Chrissy Hernandez (right) and instructor Lauren Mullineaux (left),…
Read MoreThe Buoys Are Back in Town
WHOI’s Gary Cook (foreground) and Kip Eaton from Raytheon Corp. prepare a surface mooring for a year-long deployment in the Argentine Basin in the South Atlantic Ocean. The location is…
Read MoreKeeping It Clean
Bowdoin College Summer Student Fellow Ben Geyman (left) checks samples with WHOI marine biogeochemist Tristan Horner and WHOI researcher Maureen Wisch. Geyman and the others are working in what’s known…
Read MoreNo Harm, No Foul
As long as scientists have been putting instruments in the ocean, biofouling has been a challenge confronting instrument designers. Here, WHOI technician Dan Torres recovers an acoustic doppler current profiler…
Read MoreBeachcombing With Biologists
Ocean Science Journalism Fellows learn about the ecology of Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth during a 2015 field trip with WHOI biologist Annette Govindarajan (far left) and Woods Hole Sea…
Read MoreOn the Rocks
Ice floes in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon come from Breiðamerkurjökull (visible in the background), one of the glaciers draining the third largest ice cap in the world. Iceland was the destination…
Read MoreScience Is His Beat
Ari Daniel earned a Ph.D.in biology, studying orcas in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. But he has made a career as journalist, telling multimedia stories about science for outlets such Public…
Read MoreSummer Blooms
Salpa aspera, a jelly-like species of animal found in the Atlantic Ocean, can link into chains several meters long and are comprised of as many as 80 individuals. These “salps”…
Read MoreLaunch and Recovery of AUV Sentry
The R/V Atlantis crew describes the process of launching and recovering an autonomous underwater vehicle.
Read MoreBeach Troop
Jeffrey Brodeur, the Communications and Outreach Specialist at Woods Hole Sea Grant (WHSG), leads a beach cleanup activity with girls in a Falmouth, Mass., Brownie troop and the troop assistant,…
Read MorePreparing for Deployment
WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn (right) and Raytheon engineer Edward Colgan prepare pH sensors on a surface mooring for deployment from the R/V Neil Armstrong at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Pioneer…
Read MoreGetting their Feet Wet (and Hands Dirty)
Biologist Phil Alatalo (middle) assists Summer Student Fellow Chloe Wang (left) of Haverford College as she opens up the base of a gravity core during the annual summer cruise for…
Read MoreIn Search of Popping Rocks
WHOI scientists Adam Soule and Mark Kurz prepare to climb into the submersible Alvin for a dive to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge seafloor during the 2016 Popping Rocks expedition aboard the…
Read MoreAustral Summer
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito took this striking image while aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in the southern (austral) summer of 2005-06. The international research team investigated the ecological struggle…
Read MoreEndless Summer
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreNo Place to Turn
The Johanna Kristina, a ferry and cargo ship that services villages in southeastern Greenland, struggled through an unusually heavy concentration of sea ice in the Sermilik Fjord in 2015. The…
Read MoreAt Home in the Ocean
It would be difficult to mistake Woods Hole, Mass., for any other seaside town in New England. Instead of t-shirt shops and ice cream stores (though those exist here), buildings…
Read MoreEAGER at Work
Stanford microbiologist Anne Dekas works from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island to lead a team of scientists participating in the first leg of an Alvin training cruise…
Read MoreA Coral in Hand
WHOI Biologist Tim Shank holds a deep-sea coral specimen collected from an unnamed canyon south of Martha’s Vineyard in May 2016. Deep-sea corals have evolved to survive without the support of…
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