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From Pac-Man to the Seafloor
By Julie Mirocha, Tim Silva :: Originally published online June 24, 2011
Read MoreTag, You’re It
Scientists have long been able to tag animals on land and follow their movements and habits. But tagging and tracking fish, like this spinecheek anemonefish, through vast oceans is a Herculean task.…
Read MoreThe Better to See You With
A bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) casts a wary eye on WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold, who photographed this and many other species during a recent research trip to the coral…
Read MoreMicrobial Life
Sleepy Sepia?
A cuttlefish (Sepia sp.) appears to be dozing above a coral reef in Kimbe Bay in Papua, New Guinea. WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold has been working in the area as…
Read MoreOn the Path To an Ocean Observing Network
The week of May 16th, a panel of nearly 150 leaders of large research infrastructure programs visited WHOI for the Annual Review Meeting for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). This…
Read MoreJellyfish & 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…
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