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Expedition Titanic 2010
In 1985, a WHOI-led team discovered the site of the most fabled shipwreck in history—the RMS Titanic. In 1986, a group returned to examine the wreck in more detail (above).…
Read MoreAn Ocean Full of Plastic
For more than 20 years, scientists and students from the Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole have been sailing to the same region of the Atlantic Ocean to study…
Read MoreTracing Hydrocarbon Plumes in the Gulf
Yesterday, WHOI researchers Rich Camilli (left), Christopher Reddy (right), and others released a paper in the journal Science describing a deep plume of hydrocarbons they discovered in the Gulf of…
Read MoreKnorr: 42 Years Young
On August 21, 1968, the hull of the R/V Knorr first entered the water in Bay City, Michigan, and has since traveled more than one million miles in the service…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The end of a cruise with the deep-sea submersible (DSV) Alvin can be almost as busy as the middle. This photo, taken on April 13, 2010 after dive #4618, shows…
Read MoreSalps take a bite out of CO2
Intersecting strands of a salp‘s feeding net glow green, dyed with a fluorescent dye. Salps, jelly-like ocean animals, make nets of mucus and use them to efficiently filter particles from…
Read MoreNo room for error
Casey Machado, Daniel Gomez-Ibanez, Andy Bowen, and James Kinsey carefully lower the new hybrid underwater robotic vehicle Nereus into place in its cradle on the deck of the R/V Cape…
Read MoreWater, water everywhere
2010 WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jacob Izraelevitz and Isabella Arzeno deploy a water sampling bottle from R/V Tioga during the annual expedition on which Student Fellows learn oceanographic sampling and…
Read MoreSunrise, sunset
A beautiful sunset off the bow of R/V Oceanus during a cruise in June 2008. A science team aboard the Oceanus will head to the Gulf of Mexico in late…
Read MoreA happy CAMPER
WHOI engineer John Kemp sends the tethered vehicle CAMPER off on its final mission of the second Polar Discovery expedition. CAMPER was specially built to allow scientists to image and…
Read MoreTug, tug
A tugboat follows another tugboat pushing a barge through Buzzards Bay, Mass. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection now requires state-dispatched tugboats to escort double-hulled tank vessels carrying 6,000 barrels…
Read MoreWHOI in the Gulf
Susan Avery, president and director of WHOI, welcomes community members to the public forum, “WHOI in the Gulf of Mexico,” held on July 29, 2010. A 5-member panel of scientists…
Read MoreStudying ocean flow, from Rome to WHOI
Domenico Mussardo, a guest student from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, spent spring 2010 at WHOI working with Claudia Cenedese, who studies ocean currents with laboratory experiments using tanks…
Read MoreBreaking ground
Equipped with an $8.1 million federal Recovery Act grant and shiny, new shovels, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and…
Read MoreSlices of history
A little goes a long way in sediment cores, but there’s not much left of this one laid out horizontally in a case. Seafloor sediment accumulates slowly as dead organisms…
Read MoreSouthern Ocean sentinel
Daniel Bogorff of the Subsurface Mooring Operations Group snapped this image of penguins while on the R/V Aurora Australis enroute to Casey Station in Antarctica. The focus of the expedition,…
Read MoreColorful experiment
Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducts a “fjord experiment” in WHOI’s geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory. Ramoni, from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, worked with WHOI scientists Claudia Cenedese and Fiammetta…
Read MoreNear Galapagos, 1979, a new world found
Before the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1979, no one expected to see abundant life in the deep sea, where darkness and cold temperatures reign. But chemical-rich fluids gushing from…
Read MoreIt’s a buoy for OOI and new WHOI laboratory
The first buoy designed for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is loaded onto the RV Connecticut for testing ops south of Nantucket earlier this year. The OOI program is one…
Read MoreEarthquake Research
WHOI research and economic impacts
WHOI senior engineer Mike Purcell briefs state officials Pat Larkin, executive director of the John Adams Innovation Institute, and Greg Bialecki, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, on WHOI’s…
Read MoreA fluid environment
Participants in the 2010 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) program gather on the Walsh Cottage porch for a group photo. The GFD Program, which began in 1959 at WHOI, is an…
Read MoreSun, Sand, Waves…and Bacteria?
Exploring how microscopic organisms at the beach can impact water quality, ecosystems, and human health.
Read MoreImaging Titanic
Bill Lange, Director of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory
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