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Squid Scan

Squid Scan

WHOI biologist Aran Mooney and Dr. Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, a postdoctoral scientist at the NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest regional office, examined a Humboldt squid before scanning its sensory structures at…

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A Day at the Office

A Day at the Office

In October 2012, crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard ice breaker Healy deployed a small boat to recover a mooring from the Beaufort Sea. The mooring was deployed by…

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Tab A into Slot B

Tab A into Slot B

WHOI mechanic Brian Durante assembles a “clevis attachment,” one of four on the new titanium frame of the human occupied vehicle Alvin that connect the bottom lugs of the personnel…

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Coral Reconnaissance

Coral Reconnaissance

Paul Henderson, a researcher in WHOI’s Coastal Groundwater Geochemistry Lab, snorkels near the Yucatan Peninsula to look for large corals for a study of groundwater flow. Because the Yucatan is…

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The Better to See With

The Better to See With

WHOI technician Jefferson Grau inspects a new Alvin viewport (window) to make sure it doesn’t contain bubbles or inclusions such as bits of dirt, which could cause the viewport to…

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Marine Microbes

Marine 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…

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Doing It Right

Doing It Right

Senior welder Geoffrey Ekblaw welds a seam on a titanium main junction box for the new Alvin. The human-occupied research submersible is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade, including a new frame…

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A Hull of a REMUS

A Hull of a REMUS

Senior engineer Ben Allen recently tested a specially equipped REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in the test pool at the Rinehart Coastal Research Center. This particular vehicle is designed to…

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Sounds of the Sound

Sounds of the Sound

Aran Mooney looks out across gray Nantucket Sound towards a tower built to monitor meteorological conditions where the company Cape Wind plans to install energy-generating wind turbines. WHOI biologists Mooney…

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Deep-sea Detectives

Deep-sea Detectives

In 2010, WHOI scientists Adam Soule and Dan Lizarralde searched for evidence that magma from  below the seafloor had penetrated up into the sediments of the Guaymas Basin in the…

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Bongo Dip

Bongo Dip

Marine science technician Marshal Chaidez signals to a crewmate running a winch from a control room overlooking the fantail of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy to deploy a set of…

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Alvin Takes Shape

Alvin Takes Shape

With the installation of Alvin‘s new personnel sphere onto its modified titanium frame, shown here being attached in November 2012, the country’s only deep-diving submersible began to regain its familiar…

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Cape to Cape

Cape to Cape

On Tuesday, January 15, R/V Knorr left Cape Cod for a 26-day transit to Cape Town, South Africa. From there, it will conduct science missions out of Cape Town; Montevideo,…

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The B12 Claw

The B12 Claw

WHOI scientists recently discovered a previously unknown piece of metabolic machinery that allows algae to grow in the ocean. The cobalamin acquisition protein 1 (CBA1) grabs vitamin B12 out of…

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Reel It In

Reel It In

At the end of an Alvin dive, the deep-diving submersible needs some help returning to the deck of its support ship, R/V Atlantis. To get its 35,000 pounds out of the water…

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Now You’re Cooking

Now You're Cooking

WHOI scientists Adam Soule, Dan Lizarralde, and Jeff Seewald used a device developed by WHOI engineer Marshall Swartz to gather high-resolution images of seafloor organisms in the Gulf of California…

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Framed

Framed

In September, WHOI took delivery of a very important piece of equipment: the frame for the redesigned and upgraded submersible Alvin. Shown here next to Alvin‘s support ship, R/V Atlantis, the frame had…

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Hold the Cesium

Hold the Cesium

After the earthquake and nuclear release in northeast Japan, many people have begun looking at foods like this tuna appetizer in a very different way. WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler spent…

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Star on Ice

Star on Ice

A brittle star clings to a thin stalk of coral amid chunks of ice on the Indonesian research vessel Beruna Jaya IV. It was collected during a 2010 cruise to…

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Shells of Their Former Cells

Shells of Their Former Cells

In July 2011, scientists studying the Arctic  discovered a massive phytoplankton bloom under meter-thick ice, where they thought there wouldn’t be enough light for the plants to grow. WHOI biologist…

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Sounding the Ocean

Sounding the Ocean

WHOI research engineer Fred Jaffre works on a miniaturized sonar board originally developed to measure currents in the ocean. Recently, biologist Gareth Lawson and a team that includes Jaffre, Andone Lavery,…

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Exploring the Gulf Stream

Exploring the Gulf Stream

Scientists at WHOI have been exploring the Gulf Stream and its connections to global circulation and climate patterns for decades. Physical oceanographer Arthur “Rocky” Miller, shown here in 1960, came…

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Fabulous Phaeodarians

Fabulous Phaeodarians

Four phaeodarians display their intricate silica skeletons, each about 1 millimeter in diameter—easily visible to the naked eye. They are protists, unicellular organisms that are abundant in oceans worldwide, and…

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