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Students graduating from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering march to the 2010 commencement ceremony on the WHOI Quissett Campus, while PhD recipient Jeff Standish pumps…
Read MoreWHOI Engineer Turns Author
By Elise Hugus :: Originally published online November 24, 2010
Read MoreREMUS Returns from the Deep
Aboard the R/V Tioga, WHOI engineer Craig Marquette (middle) and physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz (left) and Anthony Kirincich work to recover a Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit (REMUS) vehicle during a…
Read MoreLayers of Lobsters
Anna-Mai Christmas, an undergraduate at the University of the Virgin Islands, worked with WHOI biologist Scott Gallager to study the behavior of week-old lobster larvae exposed to layers of water…
Read MoreTaking the Oil’s Measure
In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, WHOI scientists and engineers contributed a broad range of expertise and equipment to investigations of the oil and its impact on…
Read MoreFun With Krill
WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Wu-Jung Lee talk a little krill in the congested lab aboard the R/V Endeavor during a September 2010 cruise. Krill are…
Read MoreWatching the Fraser River Flow
At Hell’s Gate in British Columbia, the Fraser River flows with roughly twice the water volume of the Niagara Falls. A team of scientists and students from WHOI and the…
Read MoreQuite a Ride
Oceanographers working in the North Atlantic in autumn always face the prospect stormy weather, but those on a recent cruise on the research vessel Atlantis got more than their share.…
Read MoreCultured Starlet
WHOI biologist Ann Tarrant looks through her microscope at cultured larvae of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, which lives in salt marshes in the Gulf of Mexico and along…
Read MoreChile Quake Damage
WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to a 12-story building in Concepcion, Chile, that was upended and toppled by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010. Luckily, the building was…
Read MoreCurrent Event
WHOI Engineer Assistant Dan Bogorff (left) and a crew member from the R/V Atlantic Explorer add a current meter to one of six moorings that were deployed down the southeast…
Read MoreA Picture-Perfect Volcano
The A-frame of the R/V Tangaroa frames Mount Maunganui, the dormant volcano that welcomes mariners to the port of Tauranga, New Zealand. Tauranga was the departure point for Associate Scientist…
Read MoreAn Ocean-Going Tradition, Then and Now
In this 1965 aerial view of Woods Hole, WHOI’s three large laboratories, left to right, are visible: the Bigelow, Smith, and Redfield buildings. The research vessels Chain and Bear are…
Read MoreTeaching the Teachers
Twice per year, WHOI hosts teacher workshops designed to give educators first-hand knowledge about exciting and current ocean science and engineering topics. Here teachers get some experience with a classroom…
Read MoreHow Do Baby Corals Grow?
Summer intern Hannah Barkley holds a ceramic tile on which several star-shaped skeletons of newly-settled coral have developed (circled). A senior at Princeton, Barkley spent the summer working with WHOI…
Read MoreHappy Veterans Day
Al Woodcock (left) and an unidentified colleague test a smoke generator in 1943. The device was used to study the effectiveness of smoke screens to protect troops during beach landings…
Read MoreBottled Water With a Bite
Water samples taken from deep in the North Atlantic wait outside WHOI’s Fye Laboratory for processing. They will be analyzed for trace elements such as neodymium and thorium, which provide…
Read MoreJoint Program Students Go With the Flow
In an MIT/WHOI Joint Program class in Marine Chemistry, WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney discusses the chemical composition of seawater and how it varies geographically and with time. The course…
Read MoreCast Adrift
WHOI engineers Jim Dunn (left in red jacket) and Kris Newhall (kneeling) prepare to deploy an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) during a cruise on the CCCG Louis S. St. Laurent in…
Read MoreA Flying Fish of Sorts
Spray gliders, like this one deployed from the R/V Atlantis in September, are robotic submarines that “fly” underwater without a human controller. In September Chief Scientist Dr. Tim Eglinton and others undertook…
Read MoreA Sub Out of Water
Alvin, the deep-diving, three-person research submarine, is generally on the job, which means it’s at sea. But every few years, it returns to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for routine maintenance…
Read MoreMeet the Sub
WHOI scientist Susan Humphris (far right, seated) answers a question from a member of the audience about the Alvin submersible upgrade project during a public event held on Oct. 17,…
Read MoreLittle Dipper
WHOI scientist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink demonstrates how to sample river water for participants in the Woods Hole Global Rivers project. The project addresses the flow of water, sediments, and nutrients into…
Read MoreThe Icebot short version
By Daniel Cojanu :: Originally published online October 29, 2010
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