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Buckets o’ Clams
WHOI scientists Dan McCorkle (pictured) and Anne Cohen, with colleagues James Widman and Lisa Milke from the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, grew larval surfclams (Spisula solidissima) under different levels…
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WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara, who is working with a team to upgrade the deep-sea submersible Alvin, uses a three-dimensional software design program to plan the arrangement of the vehicle’s pressure housings.…
Read MoreOceanCubes
A team from WHOI led by Associate Scientist Scott Gallager and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) recently announced plans to install the first OceanCubes observatory in the…
Read MoreA Buoy Goes to Sea
A brand-new surface mooring buoy is lifted by crane onto R/V Oceanus, on its way to a 2011 test deployment in the ocean south of Cape Cod. The prototype buoy…
Read MoreTop of the World
Summer at WHOI means college students on campus for the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship. In August 2012, Columbia University’s Sebastian Vivancos, a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental…
Read MoreAll Hands on Dock
It’s a longstanding tradition at WHOI that when a ship arrives or departs Woods Hole, folks come out to hail the ship and crew and lend a hand. On a…
Read MoreThe Art of Science
Last year, Falmouth High School art teacher Corine Adams (right) assigned junior Sarah Monteiro and her fellow students to make marine animal-inspired ceramics, which this spring were displayed at WHOI.…
Read MoreAstronaut Meets Argonauts
Up and down, East and West, and inner and outer space all met at WHOI May 6, 2013, when Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (left, in dark jacket) visited Woods Hole…
Read MoreMoving Day
Yesterday, May 13, the submersible Alvin achieved a major milestone in its extensive overhaul when it returned to the stern of its support ship, R/V Atlantis for the first time…
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
A team of technicians, engineers, and pilots installs a block of syntactic foam around the personnel sphere of the upgraded Alvin submarine. Syntactic foam is composed of a matrix of…
Read MoreFirst Computer at Sea
In 1961, WHOI scientist emeritus Carl Bowin was tasked with putting the first computer on a WHOI research ship. He initially rented computers because it was too expensive to buy…
Read MoreSmooth as Silk
WHOI mechanic Vic Miller applies a final coat of paint to a large piece of syntactic foam that will be installed on the human-occupied submersible Alvin. The foam, which is…
Read MoreCold Water Bath
Jeff Pietro (left) and and WHOI scientist Fiamma Straneo prepare a mooring for deployment in a Greenland fjord in July 2012. Straneo and glaciologist Sarah Das led the trip, which…
Read MoreFukushima and the Ocean
WHOI researcher Steve Pike packed some of the 3 metric tons of seawater collected during a 2011 cruise to study the spread, fate, and impacts of radionuclides released from the…
Read MoreRadiation Health Risks
Heavy Load
A shipyard rigger (left) joins Ronnie Whims (center) and Patrick Hennessy of the R/V Atlantis to observe a test of the ship’s new A-frame (not visible). Atlantis is the support ship…
Read MoreToo Big for its Stomach?
Liz Drenkard, a student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies how nutrition affects corals’ responses to ocean acidification. Here, she photographed coral polyps under a microscope, one of them enjoying…
Read MoreA Fine Touch
Technician Jefferson Grau daubs blue dye around the inside of holes on a viewport mounting rim that will be part of the newly rebuilt Alvin submarine. The dye will allow…
Read MoreOne Long Core
Researchers and crew aboard the WHOI research vessel Knorr tested a new long corer system for the first time in 2007. The WHOI long corer, developed by Jim Broda and…
Read MoreAre They What They Eat?
A three-week-old coral polyp (left), and its delicate skeleton (right) help MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Liz Drenkard study the way corals respond to increasing ocean acidification, which can impede their…
Read MoreGot Your Back
A pilot whale sports a temporary electronic tag during a 2012 expedition in the Straight of Gibraltar. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Nicholas Macfarlane, working with postdoctoral fellow Frants Jensen, placed the…
Read MoreHow Is Fukushima’s Fallout Affecting Marine Life?
Seeing Under the Sea
A pyramid-shaped multicorer sits on the deck of the R/V Melville off Santa Barbara, California in October 2012. Multicorers collect seafloor sediment samples without disrupting the uppermost sediment layers and…
Read MoreWelcome to Life at Sea
Before starting their first year as graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, incoming students spend ten days at sea on a sailing vessel…
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