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There and Back Again

January 21, 2014

R/V Knorr is a common sight in Woods Hole, but its departure still draws a crowd, especially when it leaves for far-flung places. Here, the ship pulls away from the WHOI…

Dynamic Duo

January 20, 2014

The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason is actually one part of a system that also includes the ROV Medea. Shown here during a recent nighttime recovery in the Pacific above…

Little Boat that Can

January 19, 2014

Not all of WHOI’s research fleet are large, far-ranging vessels with large crews, but all take scientists places they couldn’t otherwise go to gather data they couldn’t otherwise get. Here,…

Seafloor Snowblower

January 18, 2014

Scientists diving in the submersible Alvin in 1991 found themselves in something that looked like a snowstorm on the bottom of the sea. They had arrived soon after a seafloor…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sara Rosengard measures the amount of calcium in seawater samples using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS). The amount of calcium helps Rosengard determine…

Partners in Science

January 16, 2014

Marine chemist Jeff Seewald (left) and microbiologist Stefan Sievert adjust an isobaric gas-tight sampler (IGT) they are using during their Dive & Discover cruise to hydrothermal vents along the East…

Surprising Trigger Causes Phytoplankton Blooms in North Atlantic

January 15, 2014

By Lonny Lippsett :: Originally published online January 14, 2014

Down Time

After a trying day of bathymetric surveys, a science party from WHOI and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) spent some time free diving over Shi’b al Qasriyyah,…

New Bedford Family Science Nights

January 14, 2014

On Thursday, January 16, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., New Bedford’s Ocean Explorium will host the first of two free “Family Science Nights.” In addition to special activities, the event will feature…

Oxygen On Tap

January 13, 2014

This small device allows scientists to measure oxygen levels in fluids collected at the seafloor under very high pressure. Designed by WHOI scientists Craig Taylor and Jeff Seewald, as well…

Geology Detective

January 12, 2014

A team of geologists led by Liviu Giosan pieced together the most complete picture illustrating the growth and destruction of the Danube delta at the mouth of the principal European…

Leviathan Unbound

January 11, 2014

Red and blue lines describe the depths of a whale’s dives in work by WHOI-MIT Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop and biologist Michael Moore, director of the…

Oysters in the Rough

January 10, 2014

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Jeanette Wheeler (right) and 2013 Summer Student Fellow Elaine Luo prepare a tank to video the movement of oyster larvae. Wheeler is studying the behavior of the larvae…

80 Days in Greenland

January 9, 2014

Follow MIT/WHOI graduate student Ben Linhoff as he spends the 2012 field season camped at the foot of the Leverett Glacier in western Greenland watching the glacier and ice sheet…

Making Camp

Researchers collect gear delivered by helicopter at a site in West Greenland. The expedition led by WHOI oceanographer Fiamma Straneo and glaciologist Sarah Das in the summer of 2013 was…

Proof of Concept

January 8, 2014

Matt Long sets up the prototype of his new eddy correlation hydrogen ion and oxygen exchange system (ECHOES) on Great Pond in Falmouth on a cold November day. Developed over…

Lost and Found

January 7, 2014

In 2009, the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus became stuck in a patch of muddy seafloor at 5000 meters depth. To regain the vehicle’s buoyancy, chief scientist Chris German made…

Lunchtime

January 6, 2014

Post-doctoral investigator Amy Maas examines a flask full of phytoplankton, which she will feed to pelagic snails she collected in the Gulf of Maine. These snails—the pteropod Limacina retroversa—are prey…

Climate Change Chemist

January 5, 2014

In 2013, Summer Student Fellow Alterra Sanchez calibrated and tested low-cost commercial sensors in a local marsh to evaluate their accuracy. Back in the lab of marine chemist Zhaohui ‘Aleck’…

Ocean Science Lifeline

January 4, 2014

WHOI engineer Jeff Lord secures a safety line used to recover a moored surface buoy and all of its instruments in case the mooring line breaks. The backup floatation system…

Little Known Local Catch

January 3, 2014

Summer Student Fellow Anna Nisi collected zooplankton off the WHOI dock in 2013 to identify and isolate the ones that feed on Synechococcus, a common ocean bacteria. Although it is a…

Ring of Fire

January 2, 2014

The Pacific “Ring of Fire” produces some of the most destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on Earth, including the 2011 Japan mega-quake and tsunami. WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (middle)…

Arctic Spring

January 1, 2014

Something surprising is happening in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska. In 2011 a team of scientists aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy discovered a massive springtime plankton bloom–one of…