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Journalism Fellows Follow REMUS

Journalism Fellows Follow REMUS

WHOI engineer Craig Marquette and Coastal Research Vessel (CRV) Tioga mate Ian Hanley prepare to deploy a Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit (REMUS) as 2010 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows look on…

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Now, In Studio…

Now, In Studio...

Hanu Singh, an Associate Scientist in Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering who focuses on underwater imaging and robotics, is interviewed for a story for WHOI’s Oceanus Magazine in the Graphic…

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Up, Up, and Away

Up, Up, and Away

After deploying an Arctic Ocean flux buoy and wind-driven generator, crew members from the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent prepare to return the instrument crate back to the ship. The…

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Multi-purpose Ships

Multi-purpose Ships

Research vessels Crawford, Atlantis, and Gosnold tied up to the WHOI dock in 1963. The Crawford, a 125-foot Coast Guard cutter acquired in 1956, was mainly used for working on…

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Searching for Harmful Algae

Searching for Harmful Algae

WHOI researcher Bruce Keafer demonstrates the procedure for filtering water samples for Alexandrium fundyense prior to a research cruise on the R/V Oceanus in April 2008. A. fundyense is a…

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Measuring Mercury

Measuring Mercury

WHOI geochemist Carl Lamborg worked with Bill Martin of WHOI and Mike Bothner of the U.S. Geological Survey to determine the amounts of different forms of mercury in sediments from…

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What Does Dinner Sound Like?

What Does Dinner Sound Like?

Squid such as this Loligo pealii are a major prey item of many fish, whales, and human fishermen. WHOI researchers are using acoustics to study how whales use sonar to…

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Two for the Open Ocean

Two for the Open Ocean

Research vessels Bear and Atlantis docked at the WHOI pier in 1955. Built during WWII as a troop carrier in the South Pacific, Bear was chartered by the Institution in…

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Synchronized Swimming

Synchronized Swimming

A Pacific white-sided dolphin swims alongside the research vessel Atlantis during an October 2006 cruise off the Oregon coast. Pacific white-sided dolphins and their Atlantic counterparts are known as avid…

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Talking Marine Mammals

Talking Marine Mammals

Officials from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) toured the Marine Research Facility recently with WHOI Senior Research Specialist Michael Moore (foreground, left). They discussed the role the…

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Pending IOD

Pending IOD

The submersible Alvin prepares for a dive in September 2009. Built in 1964, the hardworking sub helped turn a sunless, freezing marine world into a new frontier. More than 4,000…

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Into the deep

Into the deep

Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott (left) watches as U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Nevin Carr climbs into the sub, which is owned by the Navy and operated by WHOI for the U.S.…

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Two Navy Vets

Two Navy Vets

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry visited WHOI in September and took the opportunity to tour the submersible Alvin during a rare port call in Woods Hole. Alvin, which is operated by…

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Ready for Anything

Ready for Anything

WHOI engineers Al Bradley (left) and Al Duester review the prep list for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry in June before its mission in the Gulf of Mexico. Later…

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Tiny Things in a Big Ocean

Tiny Things in a Big Ocean

As part of WHOI’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, biologist Cabell Davis dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico with a new digital holographic camera system—the holocam. He and…

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The Mercury Cycle

The Mercury Cycle

Mercury cycles from Earth’s crust to the air to the ocean and back to land. In the ocean, top predator fish such as tuna and swordfish contain high levels of…

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What I Did on my Summer Vacation

What I Did on my Summer Vacation

Elizabeth Halliday spent the summer at the beach, but she wasn’t swimming or sunbathing. Instead, the MIT/WHOI Joint Program student used her summer vacation to study the causes of bacterial-induced…

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Yankee Ingenuity

Yankee Ingenuity

In 1972, research technician Asa Wing sewed yards of fine-mesh material into a giant conical sampling net designed for biologist Richard Backus, who studied fishes, an ongoing research area at…

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Great Green Gobs

Great Green Gobs

Recent college graduates Dana Giffen, left, and Seth Zippel experienced the realities of oceanographic fieldwork during the summer of 2009 with WHOI scientists Britt Raubenheimer and Steve Elgar. Together, the…

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Echo Joins the WHOI Fleet

Echo Joins the WHOI Fleet

The Crosby Yacht Yard has been building boats on Cape Cod since 1850, so it’s particularly exciting that one of their boats has joined the WHOI fleet. The Echo, a…

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Tagging Pilot Whales

Tagging Pilot Whales

The shiny black skin of a long-finned pilot whale reflects the image of researchers working from an inflatable boat in the Alboran Sea off the Spanish coast. The researchers studying…

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Golden Snail, Counted in the Census

Golden Snail, Counted in the Census

This tiny (1mm) larval snail with a swirled, sculpted shell was collected in 2005 from a hydrothermal vent site 2500 meters deep, where adults of its species reach 7 cm.…

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Deep Beauty and Diversity

Deep Beauty and Diversity

Seamounts often support high biodiversity and abundance and attract commercial fishing, but we know little about them. The international research project CenSeam—a Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts—is led…

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