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Cold-water Diving
This video shows the focus needed to do scientific work in cold water. The gear is bulkier and heavier, cold affects dexterity and capacity, and dives must be shorter to compensate…
Read MoreBlue Water Diving
Diving in the open ocean. This video describes a specialized diving technique that lets biologists study the ocean’s most fragile beings—soft, transparent animals such as jellyfish that are crushed by…
Read MoreHave fins, will travel
The paddletail snapper (Lutjanus gibbus) gets around. Its habitat is reefs, and it can be found in tropical marine waters from the Red Sea, throughout Micronesia, north to Japan and south to…
Read MorePartners in Science
Cape Abilities project manager Trevor Harrison (right) works with Carol Dimock in WHOI scientist Rob Evans’ lab. Evans is partnering with Cape Abilities, an organization that supports people with disabilities…
Read MoreWhere River Meets Ocean
WHOI geochemist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink samples a small stream in the “Ancient Forest” of the upper Fraser River basin as part of the Global Rivers Project. The region in British Columbia…
Read MoreSummer School
A school of Caranx sexfasciatus (bigeye trevally) swim in Kimbe Bay, located on the north shore of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Part of the famous Coral…
Read MoreSign of the Times
This intriguing trail sign greeted the Fraser River Expedition led by WHOI’s Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink in May in the woods of western Canada. The expedition was part of the Global Rivers…
Read MoreWell Done, Atlantis!
Today marks the planned final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and NASA’s final shuttle mission. Atlantis is named for WHOI’s first research vessel, a 142-foot steel-hulled ketch that sailed…
Read MoreA Fish In Hand
Stony Brook University marine biologist Hannes Baumann holds a hatchetfish brought to the surface in a net trawl off the northeast coast of Japan in June. Baumann and 16 other…
Read MoreReady for Launch
Fred Wendt of IFM Geomar and WHOI research specialist Mark Dennett (partially hidden) inspect the REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle owned by the WAITT Institute as it is positioned on…
Read MoreREMUS Away
WHOI senior engineering assistant Greg Packard (far left) helps launch a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle in April 2011. The vehicle, owned by the Waitt Institute, was taking part in…
Read MoreBy the Jelly’s Red Glare
Have a bioluminescent Independence Day!(Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreResisting a Mess
How do animals develop resistance to toxic pollutants? WHOI biologist Mark Hahn and Isaac Wirgin of New York University have been studying how Atlantic tomcod have adapted to high levels…
Read MoreVisit from an Admiral
Rob Munier, left, WHOI vice president for marine facilities and operations, talks to Admiral Gary Roughead, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), during his visit to WHOI in June. In…
Read MoreTroubled Waters
In June 2010 WHOI personnel investigated the fate of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. WHOI’s ABE/Sentry group and scientists Rich Camilli and Chris…
Read MoreShallow Water Diving
The benefits of being there. This video spotlights researchers using scuba in shallow water. These scientists, working on coral reefs, fish ecology, or seafloor topography, require uninterrupted lengths of time…
Read MoreWhat Makes You Sick?
Science in the Fast Lane
Life aboard a research vessel moves quickly. In this time-lapse photo from the R/V Knorr, Chief Scientist Ruth Curry oversees the deployment of the High Resolution Profiler (HRP) in the western…
Read MoreHow Old? The Carbon Knows
Karl von Reden, staff physicist, is shown working at the WHOI-based National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. The facility is used to carbon date organic and inorganic material…
Read MoreA Rising Tide
By Ari Daniel :: Originally published online April 28, 2011
Read MoreTwo Thumbs Up
In April 2011 aboard NOAA’s ship R/V McArthur II, WHOI engineer John Bailey (left) and researcher Miles Saunders (Penn State) signal that TowCam is ready to go back into the…
Read MoreIn Your Face
An up-close view of this sea creature gives an impression of squirmy tentacles and bars of metallic light, like a monster from a summer movie. The tentacles are actually sensory…
Read MoreGraduating with a Special Honor
Graduating MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Abby Heithoff (center) received the Panteleyev Award from Associate Dean Meg Tivey and Dean Jim Yoder at the 2011 Joint Program Graduate Reception in June.…
Read MoreSeafood Supply Discussed
In May, Hauke Kite-Powell of the WHOI Marine Policy Center convened a range of experts in a colloquium to discuss economic and policy aspects of U.S. seafood supply, trends in…
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