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Thankful

Thankful

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…

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REMUS Returns from the Deep

REMUS 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…

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Layers of Lobsters

Layers 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…

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Taking the Oil’s Measure

Taking 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…

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Fun With Krill

Fun 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…

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Watching the Fraser River Flow

Watching 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…

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Quite a Ride

Quite 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.…

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Cultured Starlet

Cultured 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…

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Chile Quake Damage

Chile 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…

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Current Event

Current 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…

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A Picture-Perfect Volcano

A 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…

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An Ocean-Going Tradition, Then and Now

An 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…

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Teaching the Teachers

Teaching 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…

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How Do Baby Corals Grow?

How 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…

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Happy Veterans Day

Happy 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…

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Bottled Water With a Bite

Bottled 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…

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Joint Program Students Go With the Flow

Joint 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…

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Cast Adrift

Cast 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…

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A Flying Fish of Sorts

A 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…

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A Sub Out of Water

A 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…

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Meet the Sub

Meet 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,…

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Little Dipper

Little 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…

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