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A barnacle’s life
For his graduate research, WHOI postdoctoral investigator Jonathan Blythe studied the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides at Gardiner Beach in Woods Hole. He focused on the transition between the larval and…
Read MoreThe Creepy, Unbelievably Inspiring World of Deep Sea Parasites
Ocean hitchhikers and bodysnatchers abound in the ocean, from the surface down to the deepest trenches. The question is, why? And is it a good thing?
Read MoreSkin Tight
WHOI engineers Rod Catanach and Andy Billings fit the outer skin over one of the navigation transponders on the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, or ABE. The vehicle was the first autonomous…
Read MoreCatch of the Day
Postdoctoral fellow Rhian Waller holds a bundle of tubeworms collected during a seafloor dive by scientists in the Alvin submersible to the Galapagos Rift. Waller is a benthic ecologist who…
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