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Hurricane Hunter
Former MIT/WHOI Joint Program student (and current assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst) Jonathan Woodruff sinks a core sampler into the ground at Sippewissett Marsh in 2009. Woodruff…
Read MoreSampling the Fraser River
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students Britta Voss (back) and Sarah Rosengard (front) sample the Fraser River at McBridge in the upper reaches of the Rocky Mountain Trench in June 2011.…
Read MoreWe Felt It Too
The Ocean Bottom Seismology Laboratory at WHOI led by John Collins specializes in building and operating seismometers to record ground-shaking seismic waves on the seafloor. The lab almost always has…
Read MoreColorful Cobble
This tricolor rock resulted from volcanic activity along the Gakkel Ridge at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean between Russia and the North Pole. The black middle portion is the…
Read MoreMeeting the Next Generation
Vice President for Marine Facilities & Operations Robert Munier (left) and R/V Knorr Captain Adam Seamans (right) welcome aboard Charles Vest during an August visit from members of the National Research…
Read MoreLearning the Ropes
Students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography learn how to deploy and operate a rosette sampler during the 2011 Jake Pierson Summer Cruise. The device is a mainstay of…
Read MoreStarlet Stressors
The starlet sea anemone, a small animal found in salt marshes on Cape Cod, is a close relative of reef-building corals. Like other animals, corals and sea anemones can be…
Read MoreListening to the Ocean
A group of scientists and engineers from WHOI, University of Washington, and Penn State checks a ship-towed sound source in the test pool at WHOI’s Reinhart Coastal Research Center. The…
Read MoreGoing to Extremes
To really understand the cycle of life in the deep sea, researchers need samples to measure chemistry and DNA. And they aren’t after just any samples; the ones with the…
Read MoreA Heck of an Upstream Swim
An aerial view of Hell’s Gate from the Airtram in British Columbia, taken during Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink’s 2011 Fraser River expedition. At this location, the Fraser River is funneled through a…
Read MoreAlvin Gets the Once-Over
A curious “Dumbo” octopus (Grimpoteuthis) investigates deep-submergence vehicle Alvin during a dive to hydrothermal vent fields in the East Pacific Rise in November, 2007. During this research cruise aboard R/V…
Read MoreFree-Flowing River
As part of his wide-ranging study of the world’s rivers, WHOI scientist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink took an expedition to British Columbia, Canada. Shown here is the Chilcotin River—one of the prime…
Read MoreTest Driving a Glider
WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni watches as a Slocum glider heads away from the ship during a test run. The glider operates without a tether and moves up and down…
Read MoreTwo in the Hand
The two-bay scallops shown here are bivalves, which is the common name for marine and freshwater molluscs. The raised annual growth rings indicate these scallops are at a harvestable age.…
Read MoreTen-Person Raft
Students in the small boat safety class at WHOI form a raft for their instructor, Joseph Mokry of Ocean Rescue Systems. The students are wearing survival suits designed to keep…
Read MoreFluid Fellows
Participants in the 2011 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program gather for a 10-week research program, which has been in existence at WHOI since 1959. Each group is made up of graduate…
Read MoreAll Together
Members of a 1947-48 cruise row back R/V Atlantis to the (visible in the background). The primary purpose of the six-month “Med Cruise” was to prepare bathymetric charts of the…
Read MoreFearsome Fish
Skull of the deep-sea lancet fish, Alepisaurus ferox. In the early years of using moored instruments to gather information about the ocean, many moorings sustained gashes that some researchers attributed…
Read MoreThe Ghost Mooring
Teacher Juan Botella, who participated in a research cruise in the Southern Ocean, describes the recovery of a decade-lost mooring. By Kate Madin :: Originally published online August 11, 2011
Read MoreGoing Adrift
Sophia Merrifield, a student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, prepares to deploy a surface drifter with the help of WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni about 20 miles off the tip…
Read MoreKnorr Tour
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WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni prepares a Slocum glider for deployment on a research mission (in this picture, the glider’s wings have been removed). The glider moves up and down…
Read MoreDynaMITE Images
Research engineer Fred Thwaites, associate scientist Kurt Polzin, research specialist Ruth Curry, and engineer Kevin Manganini (left to right) recover a High-Resolution Profiler onboard R/V Knorr during the month-long DynaMITE…
Read MoreEavesdropping on Whales
Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield, students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, prepare to deploy a profiling float equipped with acoustic sensors that “listen” for whales and a suite…
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