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Jellyfish & Other Zooplankton
Shellfish
On the Move
WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Kakani Katija studies the power sources that propel water movement in oceans. Katija’s evidence in biogenic ocean mixing shows that the movements of sea creatures could have…
Read MoreBats out of the Blue
Fish ecologist Simon Thorrold‘s research on pristine coral reefs in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea yields both scientific results and beautiful images—such as these Teira batfish (which can grow to…
Read MoreHome on the Reef
A pink anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion) looks out from the tentacles of its home, a big anemone in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, where WHOI fish ecologist Simon Thorrold has a…
Read MoreExplore Our Ocean Planet
WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center manager Kathy Patterson uses the Magic Planet projection system to demonstrate global ocean processes at the center. The Magic Planet exhibit helps people to better…
Read MoreHiding in Plain Sight
Can you spot the pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus sp.)? (Hint: Its head is pointing back and to the left, with its left eye partly visible.) This little fellow, about a quarter…
Read MoreHydrothermal Vents
Running Hot and Cold
Researcher Terry McKee drains excess water from bottles on the rosette sampler after taking samples for analysis of water properties. This May-June 2011 cruise on R/V Knorr, led by scientist…
Read MoreWatching for Red Tides
Senior engineering assistant Will Ostrom guides an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) into the test well at the WHOI dock in early June 2011. The ESP is a seagoing lab: it…
Read MoreLife at Vents and Seeps
Back from the Deep
Researchers George Tupper and Ruth Curry pull in the High Resolution Profiler (HRP) after a mission in the western North Atlantic in 2011. When the HRP is put into the…
Read MoreSpying a pelican, briefly
A Peruvian pelican near Arica, Chile, just before the BiG RAPA cruise, headed by WHOI scientist Dan Repeta, left in November for work in the Chilean upwelling system just south…
Read MoreScanning the Bottom of the World
Grant Ballard of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory scans the open water off Cape Crozier during a 2007 expedition to Antarctica to study Adélie penguins and effects of climate change…
Read MoreVisit from Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead
Tsunami Shrine
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler pays his respects at Namiwake Shrine outside the city of Sendai, Japan, prior to departing on a cruise to study radiation releases into the ocean from…
Read MoreEasy Does It
Hovey Clifford guides 2004 Summer Student Fellows Elizabeth Cushman and Tiffany Psemeneki through the deployment of a clamshell grab sampler to collect sediment from the floor of Buzzards Bay. As…
Read MoreCelebrating World Oceans Day
On World Oceans Day, let us give thanks for some of the ocean’s largest and fiercest inhabitants, like this school of blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie), hovering near a coral reef…
Read MoreSea-Space Connection
In 1986 when the shuttle orbiter Atlantis flew its second mission, WHOI Director John H. Steele was among those invited to witness the nighttime launch, because the shuttle was named…
Read MoreMorning in the Bering Sea
During the International Polar year (2007-2009), biologist Carin Ashjian led a cruise to Bering Sea with a research team studying how climate change is affecting the Arctic’s ocean ecosystem, from…
Read MoreBear Below!
WHOI’s Acoustic Communications group provided support for the Navy’s 2011 Arctic Submarine Laboratory “ICEX” exercises north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Engineer Peter Koski deployed acoustic recorders in 24-inch Pelican cases…
Read MoreClassroom at Sea
This spring, first-year MIT/WHOI Joint Program students enrolled in an introductory course in biological oceanography had the opportunity to participate in a field exercise on R/V Tioga. During the cruise,…
Read MoreMeasuring Plankton
The Video Plankton Recorder (VPR), an underwater video microscope system capable of taking images of plankton and particulate matter as small as 50 microns, is shown here on the deck…
Read MoreAll the Pretty Jellyfish
Explore Palau’s Jellyfish Lake with WHOI’s Pat Lohmann as he films the daily migration of golden jellies in this unique and scientifically important ecosystem.
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