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Look Ma, No Lines

Look Ma, No Lines

WHOI biologist Annette Frese Govindarajan (center, blue hard hat) and data manager Sarah Burnet (left), assisted with the launch of the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry in the Gulf of Mexico in…

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Go to Sea, Young Man

Go to Sea, Young Man

In 1965, WHOI microbiologist John Waterbury was a young researcher studying microorganisms in the upper ocean that convert inorganic nitrogen into a form that phytoplankton can use to drive the…

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Smooth Sailing Through Pancake Ice

Smooth Sailing Through Pancake Ice

The icebreaker USCGC Healy opens a path through first-year pancake ice in the Amundsen Gulf during a 2011 mooring cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Though pancake ice can cover large…

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We’re Outta There!

We're Outta There!

Associate Scientist Mak Saito saw plenty of Adélie penguins during his International Polar Year expedition to Antarctica in 2009. His study focused on the collection of sea-ice and water column algae, but another project soon emerged.…

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A Swell Time on Healy

A Swell Time on Healy

Icy Arctic swells rocked the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy during a six-week science expedition in 2011. WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian and colleagues Sam Laney and Krista Longnecker visited the Arctic…

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Testing, 1, 2, 3

Testing, 1, 2, 3

WHOI biologist Aran Mooney places a cuttlefish, a close relative of squid, into a tank to test how it responds to sound. Mooney previously showed that sounds provoke nerve responses…

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Intro to Ocean Research

Intro to Ocean Research

Skidmore College senior and Ocean Research Experience (ORE) Fellow Jay Brett (center) dissects a fish with the help of WHOI marine biologist Vicke Starzcak (left) and MIT/WHOI graduate student Maya…

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Can Dolphins Get the Bends?

Can Dolphins Get the Bends?

Researchers think dolphins may be particularly good at avoiding something humans are susceptible to: the bends. Evidence suggests dolphins get bubbles in their veins when they swim up from the…

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Mountains Upon Mountains

Mountains Upon Mountains

What look like colorful floating landscapes might better be called “oilscapes.” They were created by WHOI scientists using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography, which identifies thousands of individual chemical compounds that…

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An Exceptional Fellow

An Exceptional Fellow

WHOI Senior Scientist Raymond Schmitt has been elected a 2012 fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), one of 61 new fellows who are being recognized by AGU for “exceptional scientific…

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Dressing for Work

Dressing for Work

Assistant marine ops coordinator Chad Smith and Julian Schanze, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, help Dive Officer Ed O’Brien into his hardhat diving gear. The three divers…

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Sentry Away

Sentry Away

One May 2011 evening in the Gulf of Mexico, engineers readied the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry to dive in search of deep-water corals. Scientists aboard the vessel McArthur II…

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A Visionary Fellow

A Visionary Fellow

Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jim Yoder (left) gave U.S. Senator Scott Brown (Mass.) an overview of WHOI’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program in August 2011. On…

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Trapped!

Trapped!

Sediment trap samples, such as these recovered from a mooring off Cape Hatteras by the R/V Oceanus in October 2011, offer scientists a glimpse into the complex and often hidden…

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Homecoming

Homecoming

After three weeks in the northern Atlantic in August 2010, WHOI researchers Jeff Hood and Kathryn Rose were greeted at the Woods Hole dock by colleagues, friends and family. They…

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World Traveler

World Traveler

This 1965 photo shows the stern of R/V Atlantis II, with its name spelled out in the Japanese phonetic alphabet katakana, during a stop by the ship in Tokyo. The…

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