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Keeping Track
In February 2011, research assistant Catherine Carmichael and research specialist Robert Nelson transferred possession of critical oil samples and chain-of-custody records to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer John Agapito (right)…
Read MoreChernobyl’s Ocean Legacy
Twenty-five years ago today, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded and burned, creating what was at the time the largest accidental release of radiation to the environment. Ken…
Read MoreSeafloor Oil Seep
Dave Valentine and his scuba-diving team at the University of California Santa Barbara collected oil leaking from a seafloor seep. The white material clinging to the seafloor is made of…
Read MoreExplore Ocean Science
Visit the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, now open for the season, where you can discover the world of ocean science. Featured exhibits include a full scale…
Read MoreHappy Easter (Island)
Conditions change markedly moving west across the South Pacific from Chile, where coastal waters are filled with essential nutrients–including nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron–to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), where nutrients are…
Read MoreStudying the Stream
WHOI physical oceanographer Alan Faller (right) and a visiting colleague conduct a circulation experiment circa 1957. Building on early studies of the Gulf Stream, Faller’s lab did illustrative experiments on…
Read MorePatience in the Pulpit
Captain Bill Chaprales of Cape Cod Shark Hunters prepares to tag a white shark off Chatham, Mass., in 2010. Captain Chaprales has worked with biologists Simon Thorrold, director of WHOI’s…
Read MoreIngenuity and Innovation
Research associates George Tupper (left) and Marshall Swartz check a CTD rosette, which measures the salinity and temperature of seawater at various depths, as Swartz’s dog Little Bear takes a…
Read MorePortrait of a Spill
This photo of oil and water in the Gulf of Mexico, taken in June 2010, recalls the historic spill that spread millions of gallons of oil in the three months…
Read MoreSanta Barbara Oil Seeps
There’s an oil spill every day off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., where oil is seeping naturally from cracks in the seafloor into the ocean. Lighter than seawater, the…
Read MoreFolds Within Folds
What seems like a fractal landscape of mountains and canyons is actually a “corrugated coral,” a reef-building species with a hard skeleton, photographed under a microscope. Pockets of tiny white…
Read MoreNot Always Smooth Sailing
Georges Bank near Cape Cod is well known for it’s fish and its rough seas. In 2010 biologists Peter Wiebe and Gareth Lawson took a research team to Georges Bank…
Read MoreAll Systems Go
WHOI engineers Kate McMonagle and John Lund work on an instrument that measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in both the air and the surface water. It is one of…
Read MoreNice Splice
Engineering assistant Christopher Ross splices a “hardeye” (galvanized thimble) into 7/8-inch, 8-strand nylon line in the WHOI rigging shop. After positioning the hardeye, he spliced the rope back into itself–about…
Read MoreEndurance Testing
Workers from WHOI and Oregon State University deploy a Multi-Function Node (MFN) from the fantail of the R/V Wecoma near Newport, Oregon, in March 2011. After entering the water, the…
Read MoreA High-Impact Career
Don Koelsch (far left) and other WHOI engineers and seismologists with the Near Ocean Bottom Explosives Launcher (NOBEL) system on the fantail of R/V Atlantis II in 1991. Koelsch helped…
Read MoreMidnight camp
Sunny yellow tents on stark lava and snow mark a temporary home for a WHOI research team in Antarctica to study the weathering of ancient lava flows from a long-dormant…
Read MoreOceanus, the Early Days
Brand new and not yet painted, R/V Oceanus arrived at WHOI on November 21, 1975 to cheers and celebration. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the 177-foot ship took its…
Read MoreAll Hands for the Thresher
On April 10, 1963, the U.S. nuclear attack submarine USS Thresher was conducting deep-diving trials about 220 miles east of Cape Cod when communication with the sub was suddenly cut…
Read MoreLights, Camera, Action
Tito Collasius, expedition leader with the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason filmed an interview recently with a crew from the Korean Broadcasting System for a documentary about deep-sea exploration. Jason…
Read MoreAUVs Assist in Search
Members of the REMUS Operations Group Steve Murphy, Mark Dennett, and Robin Littlefield (left to right), pose with one of the REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) built in 2008…
Read MoreWhen Colleagues Came Calling
Bedecked with pennants, the 105-meter R/V Yokosuka carrying the Shinkai 6500 submersible, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), visited WHOI in 1994 after a joint…
Read MoreA Sight to Behold
WHOI Senior scientist and Director of the Ocean Life Institute Simon Thorrold is tagging whale sharks in the Red Sea with the support of King Abdullah University of Science and…
Read MoreMaking the Best of a Hostile Environment
WHOI’s Diana Franks and Mark Hahn, shown working in the lab, joined colleagues from New York University and NOAA to report that Atlantic tomcod living in New York’s Hudson River…
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