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The Big One
WHOI research assistant Justin Ossolinski snorkels over a massive coral in Vietnam—the largest of its kind in the country, according to WHOI climate scientist Konrad Hughen‘s colleagues at the Institute…
Read MoreStanding Ready
Erik Cordes of Temple University (second from left), Tim Shank (WHOI, to right), and principal investigator Chuck Fisher (Penn State University, far right) discuss the day’s dive during a December…
Read MoreReady for Duty
On April 23, 2011, R/V Atlantis came out of dry-dock in Jacksonville, Florida, with a fresh coat of paint and a full schedule of science cruises. This picture was taken…
Read MoreNorth Pole Spring
WHOI engineers Jeff Pietro (left) and Kris Newhall attached a cylindrical profiler instrument to a wire hanging into the Arctic Ocean recently near the North Pole. Pietro, Newhall and senior…
Read MoreCasting a Short Shadow
An Adélie penguin ponders the long shadows of tall visitors to its colony on Ross Island in the Antarctic. The picture was taken by Chris Linder, a research associate in…
Read MoreLost and Found
“Wet tests” are performed in port with the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus prior to a 2009 expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise—an ultraslow spreading…
Read MoreUp Close with a Jumbo Squid
Aran Mooney (left to right), Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, and Darlene Ketten confer with Julie Arruda over a Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) from Baja Mexico. Ruiz-Cooley came to WHOI recently from the…
Read MorePacking for a Glacial Visit
What do you take if you’re planning for 100 days camped at the foot of a glacier? A Kindle full of books, a guitar, and, if you’re lucky, a very…
Read MoreLoading a Node
Chris Holm of Oregon State University and WHOI engineers John Lund and Jeff Pietro (left to right) help load a Multi-function Node (MFN) onto the R/V Wecoma in preparation for…
Read MoreSpotlight on Seafood
A fishing boat passes by Nosbka Point on its way into Woods Hole. The subject of seafood supply is the topic this week of the Morss Colloquium at Woods Hole…
Read MoreLife in the Fast Lane
Observed by postdoctoral scholar Shawn Arellano (back left), Joint Program students Oscar Sosa and Jeanette Wheeler watch as fellow student Sara Bosshart adds fluorescein dye to WHOI’s racetrack flume to…
Read MoreCores for Climate History
Ellen Roosen (left) and Dan McCorkle retrieve a sediment core during a 2006 cruise aboardf R/V Oceanus. The core contains fossil shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera–“forams” for short. Some…
Read MoreBarnacle Build-Up
An adult snail (large brown shell) and Northern rock barnacles of various ages crust a rock in the intertidal zone of Buzzards Bay. A large white barnacle is attached to…
Read MoreAirborne Oceanographer
Last winter, WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo rode a helicopter above Sermilik Fjord (visible through the window) in eastern Greenland. From the air, she was able to search for patches…
Read MoreMeasuring Mercury
As part of a study of mercury cycling in Waquoit Bay, WHOI biogeochemists William Martin (left) and Carl Lamborg deployed the benthic chamber shown here. This instrument collects samples that allow…
Read MoreChecking the Day’s Catch
In December 2010 a multi-institution research team explored the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico with the submersible Alvin, to study deep-sea life. The expedition, funded as a National Science…
Read MoreFraming a Field
Fom left, Senior carpenter Rowland Cummings, engineer Paul Fucile, and post doctoral investigator Masako Tominaga view a custom Helmholtz Coil frame Cummings built, before winding wire on it. By passing…
Read MoreAssembling an Observatory
WHOI machinist Tim Kling uses a precision water-jet cutter to fabricate an internal frame member of a buoy destined to be part of an upcomig at-sea test of components of…
Read MoreKrill, Get Ready for Your Close-Up
During a cruise on the R/V Endeavor in fall, 2010, Bosun Patrick Quigley deploys the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR), assisted by Joint Program students Nick Woods (left) and Wu-Jung Lee. The…
Read MoreRed River Valley
Summertime meltwater forms lakes on Greenland’s ice sheet that suddenly disappear. WHOI glaciologist Sarah Das showed why—the water’s weight cracks the ice, draining to bedrock and lubricating the ice’s seaward…
Read MoreOn the Scene
From the deck of the research vessel Endeavor, WHOI chemist Ben Van Mooy (right) and others survey the scene near the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of…
Read MoreA Day at the Beach
In April, Coastal Ocean Institute director Chris Reddy returned to the Gulf of Mexico with research assistant Catherine Carmichael (above). The pair visited several beaches around the Gulf to collect…
Read MoreUsing Tiny Animals to Study a Big Problem
Biologist Ann Tarrant and postdoc Adam Reitzel examine tiny starlet anemones (Nematostella vectensis, the tan blobs visible in the dishes) that they culture. The anemones, from salt marshes all along…
Read MoreRecycling in the Ocean
Iron is essential for life, but is remarkably scarce in the ocean. WHOI scientists led by biogeochemist Mak Saito recently discovered that a key marine bacterium, Crocosphaera watsonii, may have…
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