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Tour of PO Labs
Operations Manager Chris Ross shows September PO Tour attendees different types of Moorings. The mooring construction and rigging shop offers a wide range of services and extensive marine hardware…
Read MoreSensing Currents at Sunset in Provincetown with HF Radar
MIT/WHOI Joint Program Students Teach Science Lesson on Penikese Island
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Brynn Hamilton and Margaret Gregory in front of the schoolhouse on Penikese Island. The lesson was an introduction to density, buoyancy and mixing. MIT/WHOI Joint Program…
Read MoreAssistant Scientist Svenja Ryan Visiting Kiel, Germany on a Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
EGU25 Highlights from the Physical Oceanography Department
WHOI PO postdoc Ali Exley and URI/SGO grad student Lindsay Grose at EGU25. Photo provided by Magdalena Andres.
Read MoreBuoy Lunch Presentation – PO Administration Station
The Buoy Lunch is a seminar hosted by the PO Department every month featuring different topics of interest to its members. April’s Buoy Lunch was called Administration Station, and it…
Read MoreMIT/WHOI JP Students and WHOI Scientists take part in Geodynamics Seminar Program in Patagonia
Icebergs in Lago Grey (Grey Lake). In the background are the forests of the Sendero Refugio Paine and further back are the peaks of Cerro Paine Grande…
Read MoreSunrise off of Jan Mayen Island on the R/V Armstrong
WHOI guest investigator Stefanie Semper enjoys sunrise off of Jan Mayen Island on the R/V Armstrong…
Read MoreView of the stern of the R/V Armstrong
The Neil Armstrong, cruise AR8401, left Woods Hole on June 2 and arrived in Reykjavik on July 2, 2024. This is a bi-annual joint OOI-Irminger OSNAP-GDWBC cruise. Senior Research Specialist…
Read MoreDolphins at Sunset
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students watch dolphins swimming in the bow wave while the R/V Roger Revelle was working in the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras. Photo provided by Glen Gawarkiewicz.
Read MoreWHOI PO at 2024 European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria
PO Joint Program students, postdocs, and scientific staff attended the 2024 EGU Meeting in Vienna, Austria, this week to share project results with the international research community. Pictured (left to…
Read MoreSunset in Megansett Harbor
Sunset behind osprey nest in Megansett Harbor. Photo by Glen Gawarkiewicz.
Read MoreMIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Orientation Cruise, November 2023
In November 2023, a team of 20 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students steamed out on R/V Neil Armstrong for a 50h introductory research cruise. For many of them, this was the…
Read MorePO Runs Falmouth in the Fall
Assistant Scientist Svenja Ryan and Postdoctoral Investigators Giovanni Dematteis and Christoph Renkl pose at the finish of Falmouth in the Fall, a 7.2 mile race along Woods Hole and Falmouth’s…
Read MoreGlen Gawarkiewicz Presents “Sea Monsters from Classical Times through the Age of Exploration”
PO’s own Glen Gawarkeiwicz presents Sea Monsters from Classical Times through the Age of Exploration” as a special Halloween Treat!
Read MoreAn afternoon on the RV Sally Ride
An afternoon on the RV Sally Ride: Brian Hogue (foreground, steadying the instrument) from the FIXIT Lab and Austin Liou from the Upper Ocean Processes Group (background, running the A-frame)…
Read MoreSynergy II Project – Marine Heatwaves
PO scientists Svenja Ryan (left) and Caroline Ummenhofer (right) pose with artist Deb Ehrens (middle) in front of kinetic 3D sculptures representing marine heatwaves…
Read MoreDeep Madagascar Basin Cruise RR2303 April-May 2023
Andy Davies, ResTech Josh Manger, and graduate student Lois Baker (Imperial College, UK) on the back deck of the R/V Revelle (RR2303 April-May 2023) deploying a sound source mooring in the early dawn hours…
Read MoreSea ice around Woods Hole
Sea ice around Woods Hole formed during the Arctic blast of February 3rd and 4th…
Read MoreOrcas spotted off the Armstrong
While transiting from the work site in the Irminger Sea to Reykjavik during a recent AR69-01 OOI-Irminger 9/OSNAP-SDWBC cruise, a pod of orca whales came by the ship. NOAA Marine…
Read MoreMarch in the stormy North Atlantic observed from the bridge of the R/V Neil Armstrong during AR65
March in the stormy North Atlantic observed from the bridge of the R/V Neil Armstrong during AR65…
Read MoreCTD and rosette deployment off the side of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy
CTD and rosette deployment off the side of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy during Robert Pickart’s RAPID cruise in Baffin Bay in September-October 2021…
Read MoreA Clam at Sunrise in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
The sun rises over the Mid-Atlantic Bight behind an ocean quahog perched on the side of the F/V ESS Pursuit during a recent research cruise. Ocean quahogs are the longest-living,…
Read MoreR/V Armstrong tracks Arctic freshwater along the southeast Greenland shelf
Assistant scientist Nick Foukal and Research Assistant Jessica Kozik have been deploying surface drifters and profiling floats along the southeast Greenland shelf during the OOI Irminger cruise aboard the R/V…
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