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No Holiday On Ice
It was -22°F in March 2014 when WHOI engineers Kris Newhall (left) and John Kemp landed in a Twin Otter aircraft on an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea. They were…
Read MoreTiny Time Machines
Seafloor sediments are full of tiny shells like these, the remains of single-celled ocean organisms that lived, died, and sank to the ocean bottom, building up in layers over the…
Read MoreBlue Button Drifter
Porpita porpita, also called the blue button jelly, floats at or near the surface of the water and drifts with the wind. This flower-like floater, related to jellyfish, is actually…
Read MoreSharing the Ocean
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Laura Weber swims past a Caribbean reef shark while working in the Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queens) archipelago in Cuba. She and…
Read MoreContinental Vision
A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters before the flags of the original Antarctic Treaty nations: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France,…
Read MoreDeep Presence
WHOI biologist Tim Shank (center) and then-MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Santiago Herrera watch live seafloor video from the lab’s Exploration Command Center during a 2013 cruise on the NOAA ship…
Read MoreFrozen Moment
Deck crew of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy maneuver a plankton net into the waters of the Chukchi Sea during a cruise led by WHOI oceanographer Bob Pickart in May 2014.…
Read MoreA Rosette By Any Other Name
A marine science technician aboard the U.S.Coast Guard Healy pushes a conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) rosette during a spring 2009 research cruise to study the Bering Sea ecosystem. A CTD is made up of…
Read MoreCalling Alvin
Raul Martinez and Allison Heater (both standing) finish preparing Alvin for a dive during the sub’s Science Verification Cruise in March 2014. Martinez and Heater are crewmembers of R/V Atlantis and are also trained to…
Read MoreArtistic Sensibility
Falmouth High School art teacher Jane Baker and WHOI biologist Becky Gast took 52 art and English students to Provincetown this fall to do what generations of artists and writers…
Read MoreSome Like It Hot
Alvinella pompejana is named after the submersible Alvin and the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a volcano. Also known as the Pompeii worm, it can withstand the hottest temperatures of any…
Read MoreA Little Background
A remotely controlled “JetYak” surface vehicle leaves a beach on Bikini Atoll recently during a trip by WHOI chemists Ken Buesseler and Matt Charette. Use of the JetYak is led…
Read MoreA Parade of Plankton
Two for One
Common marine algae naturally produce chemicals that might be of use to humans. In 2002, Greg O’Neil (right) worked as a summer research student with WHOI chemist Chris Reddy (left)…
Read MoreMan Outboard
Jim Broda (left) stands on the fantail of the research vessel Knorr just prior to the ship’s last science cruise as research assistant Al Gagnon tests the “manbasket” work platform…
Read MoreLoaded to Dive
WHOI electronics technician Casey Agee helped load a set of isobaric gas-tight samplers (IGTs) onto a platform in the front of the remotely operated vehicle Jason during a 2014 expedition to the East Pacific Rise.…
Read MoreListen In
The WHOI dock not only provides a place for research vessels to tie up, it also offers Institution scientists and engineers ready access to the water as they develop new…
Read MoreRobotic Point of View
WHOI scientist Yogesh Girdhar is working to endow underwater robots with an ability that is particularly human: curiosity. Specifically, he is writing algorithms that will allow robots to distinguish interesting…
Read MoreBeach Day
In 2013, WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler went to Japan, where he collected samples of groundwater and beach sands as part of his and chemist Matt Charette’s work tracking the spread…
Read MoreAll Battened Down
Lines on Knorr were doubled Monday in advance of a blizzard moving up the East Coast forecast to bring hurricane-strength gusts and near-record amounts of snowfall. WHOI port engineer Dutch Wegman…
Read MoreStorm Library
WHOI guest student Margaret DiGiorno returns a core sample from Blackmore Pond in Wareham, Mass., to its place in a refrigerated storage unit. DiGiorno, an undergraduate student from Northeastern University,…
Read MoreUnder the Ice
WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara installs a new shroud over one of the maneuvering thrusters on the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) remotely operated vehicle. NUI is connected to pilots aboard a…
Read MoreSummer Science
In the depths of winter, it’s nice to remember when undergraduates from around the world come to Woods Hole for a summer of science by the sea. Students learn about…
Read MoreHole in One
WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly and research assistant Richard Sullivan recently joined Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) geologist Pete van Hengstum and undergraduate student Tyler Winkler in collecting cores from Thatchpoint Bluehole. It…
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