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White Sharks, Gray Seals
2013 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows and WHOI staff members pause for a photo following an afternoon of seal watching aboard the Monomoy Island Ferry. During the trip, biologists Andrea Bogomolni…
Read MoreKayak Cruise Control
A yellow “JetYak” cruises close to West Greenland’s Sarqardliup Glacier while keeping researchers out of harm’s way of its calving icebergs. WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh developed this autonomous surface vehicle…
Read MoreGo-to Guy
Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (right) helps deploy a sediment trap from the fantail of research vessel Knorr in 2012. Ossolinski is the 2013 recipient of the Ryan C. Schrawder Award,…
Read MoreSeafloor Samples
Summer Student Fellow Benjamin Urann (left) and his mentor, geologist Henry Dick, examine slabs cut from igneous rocks collected during a cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge aboard research vessel Knorr.…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Warming Arctic
WHOI mooring technician Jim Ryder (center) and members of the crew aboard the R/V Lance work to remove an instrument that measures temperature and salinity from the mooring wire during…
Read MoreTag, You’re It
Daniel Webster, of the Cascadia Research Collective, tags a spotted dolphin with a WHOI DTAG off the coast of Kona, Hawaii in May 2013. Biologist Aran Mooney and Joint Program…
Read MoreRemove Before Flight
A deep-sea submersible may not have keys, but it does have one very important piece of equipment that needs to be accounted for before every dive: a pin that holds…
Read MoreKeep it Clean
Benjamin Birner, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from Jacobs University in Bremen, at work in the Clark Clean Lab on WHOI’s Quissett campus. “Clean labs” are designed to prevent contamination…
Read MoreGlistening Glaciers
On the way to the high Arctic to study how the polar ocean circulates, the crew aboard the Norwegian research vessel Lance took in this scenic sight—the glacial tongues of…
Read MoreA Drop in the Ocean
Viewed from outer space, Earth has been called the Blue Planet. But if you could pull all the water in the ocean, the atmosphere, groundwater and surface water into a ball,…
Read MoreUp Close
Recent reports of leaks from the site of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have not deterred researchers from continuing to study the impact and spread of radiation in the…
Read MoreA Spherical View
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President & Director Susan Avery checks out the sphere of the newly remodeled Alvin with Deep Submergence Vehicle expedition leader Bruce Strickrott. Built in 1964 as one…
Read MorePredator or Prey?
WHOI biologist Andrea Bogomolni spoke about some of Cape Cod’s most charismatic predators (and prey) during the WHOI public event White Sharks, Gray Seals on August 7, 2013. Bogomolni studies seals found off the…
Read MoreScience and Poetry
Alice Alpert, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, steers the 72-foot sailboat Seadragon during a cruise to the equatorial Pacific last summer to study corals. Alpert spoke about…
Read MoreA Day at Sea
The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program brings undergraduates to WHOI for a summer of ocean science. A memorable day for students is the annual science cruise on WHOI’s coastal vessel…
Read MoreHistory of Deep Ocean Technology
WHOI engineer and director of National Deep Submergence Facility, Andy Bowen, provided an overview on deep-ocean exploration at the recent WHOI public event Deep Ocean Exploration: Trenches. Bowen’s presentation focused…
Read MoreDistant Ears
Slocum gliders move horizontally by changing their buoyancy at the top and bottom of each pre-programmed dive. More importantly, they move through the water silently. This is allowing a team that…
Read MoreIn-Depth Experience
WHOI volunteer Peter Partridge explains the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus during a recent public event about deep ocean trenches. Partridge, who served aboard the Navy support vessel for Trieste,…
Read MoreMark of Excellence
Even when they’re in port, crewmembers of WHOI research vessels are hard at work honing the skills that make ocean science on the high seas possible—and safe. Here, crew of…
Read MoreOn the Hill
Explorer and director James Cameron testified in support of ocean research with WHOI president and director Susan K. Avery before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast…
Read MoreInto the Gut
WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski (kneeling) and summer student fellow Sara Goheen test a custom-built autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) in the strong currents of the gut off Devil’s Foot Island in…
Read MoreCrowning Achievement
This summer saw a milestone in the construction of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong. In July, workers at the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Washington, installed the ship’s…
Read MoreEggs by the Cup
Casey Zakroff, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, adjusts transparent plastic cups in a water bath. The cups hold squid eggs in seawater bubbled with air containing normal…
Read MoreLearning by Doing
Carolyn Garrity, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from the University of Maine, searches for specimens of benthic organisms in sediment collected from the bottom of Buzzards Bay. Each year the…
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