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Ocean scientists often need to be more than “just” an expert in his or her field of study. While loading the research vessel Cabo de Hornos in Valparaiso, Chile, recently, a…

Every oceanographic vehicle is brought from concept to reality by a team of engineers. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry was conceived by Barrie Walden, Al Bradley, and Dana Yoerger…

The unusually cold winter allowed WHOI engineers to do something they normally can’t do: test equipment in polar conditions. Here, an autonomous Slocum glider operated by the Mixing Measurement and…

Like salmon, river herring are anadromous—they spend most of their life at sea and make annual spawning migrations up rivers to release their eggs. Although the size of these spring migrations…

The bacterium, Crocosphaera watsonii (pictured), is one of the few marine microbes that can convert nitrogen gas into organic nitrogen, which acts as fertilizer to stimulate plant growth in the…

Krill are very small crustaceans living in oceans around the world that eat even smaller organisms called phytoplankton. Krill play a major role in the food chain because they provide food for…

During a 1961 R/V Chain cruise, the ship made a port call in Monaco. While there, Captain Emerson Hiller invited the royal family to Thanksgiving dinner on board. From left:…

You know it’s spring when migrating osprey return to Cape Cod from Central and South America. Ospreys are large, black-and-white birds of prey that, unlike other raptors, feed almost entirely…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Laura Stevens marks the location of a buried geophone in Botswana along the East African Rift, where two pieces of Earth’s crust are separating, forming…

Sun halos and a rare lower-tangential arc (bright area above the wing) surround a Twin Otter aircraft carrying equipment and personnel to Antarctica’s “Yesterday Camp”—so-named because it sits just east…