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Getting a Grip on Biogeochemistry
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch (top) and chemistry research assistant Justin Ossolinski recover a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette from the Sargasso Sea in April 2008. Marine chemist Ben Van Mooy…
Read MoreShip’s Shape
In December 2013, workers at the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Wash., joined two sections of hull to begin shaping WHOI’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong. Over the following…
Read MoreAdvanced Technology, Advanced Research
WHOI Associate Scientist Elizabeth Kujawinski (right) and research specialist Melissa Kido Soule acquaint themselves with a new mass spectrometer in Kujawinski’s lab. The two have used similar technology in the…
Read MoreMany Languages, One Ocean
Corals, coral health, and the threats facing reefs worldwide will be just a few of the items on the agenda at a new conference tomorrow at WHOI. “Oceanos: WHOI en Español…
Read MoreSuper Sampler
WHOI engineer Daniel Gomez-Ibanez prepares WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Clio, for its recent sea trials from research vessel Neil Armstrong. The white cylinder Gomez-Ibanez is working on is called…
Read MoreA Team Effort
The new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Clio is the first AUV specifically designed to collect both biological and chemical samples from the ocean. The project’s principal investigators—engineers Mike Jakuba of…
Read MoreGetting Their Feet Wet
WHOI engineering assistant Chris Basque (foreground) pays out a tag line from the stern of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to a 62-inch flotation sphere he just helped deploy while other members…
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 MoreMobilized Mercury
WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Priya Ganguli worked with Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) student Kelly Luis this summer to test groundwater from nearby Mosquito Creek for methylmercury. Septic systems in…
Read MoreDay Trip
What looks like a well-stocked boat trip is actually a local scientific expedition, as University of California Santa Cruz chemist Carl Lamborg, WHOI post-doctoral scholar Julia Diaz, and WHOI biogeochemist…
Read MoreGone Fishin’
In August 2011, an interdisciplinary team launched a SeaBED-class autonomous underwater vehicle named Mola Mola from the NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow. Scientists on the team came from NOAA, Rutgers…
Read MoreEquipment Check
Physical oceanographer Emily Shroyer (Oregon State University) examines a CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) sensor specially designed to take measurements while a ship is underway. Shroyer used the CTD on…
Read MoreDeepDOM Logjam
A tugboat assists the WHOI research vessel Knorr in its March 2013 departure from a jam-packed port in Montevideo, Uruguay. An interdisciplinary team of scientists aboard the DeepDOM cruise investigated…
Read MoreWork Cut Out
WHOI research assistant Paul Henderson readied some of more than 600 filters for shipment to Ecuador in September 2013. Henderson and Falmouth High School student Andrew Franks spent more than…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month at WHOI
Chief Scientists WHOI chemist Elizabeth Kujawinski, shown at left recovering a CTD rosette to the deck of R/V Thomas G. Thompson, departed Montevideo, Uruguay, aboard R/V Knorr on March 25,…
Read MoreMarine Microbes
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito prepares to drill through six feet of ice to take a water sample during 2009 fieldwork in Antarctica that he later analyzed for dissolved metals. Saito…
Read MoreSampling Sediments
Joan Bernhard, a geobiologist in WHOI’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, prepares a sediment sample for analysis. Bernhard studies protists (also called protozoa) that live on and in the seafloor.…
Read MoreICESCAPE Walk
US Coast Guard rescue swimmers and polar bear sentinels from the USCGC Healy stand by as scientists measure sea ice properties during NASA’s 2011 ICESCAPE cruise in the Chukchi and…
Read MoreA Dip in the Pool
Researchers gather samples of mud from a blue pool near the edge of Shark Bay, Australia. Blue pools are small bodies of water that are much more salty than seawater.…
Read More“Red sky at morning…”
“… sailors take warning.” The old adage applies as WHOI’s ship R/V Oceanus sits at the dock in St. George, Bermuda one morning in December 2008, just before a big…
Read MoreTeam Tricho
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students Annette Hynes, Elizabeth Orchard, and Phoebe Dreux Chappell make up the trio known as “Team Tricho.” Working in the microbial biogeochemistry group at WHOI, the…
Read MoreCelebrating the Little Ones
WHOI microbiologist John Waterbury examines phytoplankton samples in his lab in the Stanley W. Watson Biogeochemistry Building. Today Waterbury is joining MIT biologist Penny Chisholm and WHOI biologist Robert Olson…
Read MoreChain Gang
MIT/WHOI graduate student Annette Hynes captured this microscope photograph, or micrograph, of a colony of Trichodesmium at 1000x magnification. A form of primitive, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, Trichodesmium are often found in…
Read MoreSign Here, Please
A steel worker signs a ceremonial construction beam for one of the new laboratories on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. State-of-the-art laboratory facilities formarine research and biogeochemistry were completed in late 2005. (Photo…
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