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Greenland — the world’s largest island — is also home to one of the world’s largest ice sheets (after Antarctica). If Greenland’s two-mile-thick ice sheet melts completely, it would ultimately…

This small boat harbor is located in one of the fjords at Nuuk, Greenland, near where the R/V Knorr was docked in preparation for a cruise around Greenland. The mountain…

Salps—transparent organism that range from 0.5 to five inches long—are the subject of MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Rakow Sutherland’s PhD dissertation. Observing them in their habitat off the Pacific…

A barge may be an unconventional platform for oceanographic mooring work, but members of the Physical Oceanography and Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering departments  — John Kemp, Jim Ryder, Paul…

A marine science technician aboard the iceabreaker USCG Healy pushes a conductivity/ temperature/depth (CTD) recorder during a spring 2009 research cruise to study the Bering Sea ecosystem.  A CTD is…

The Ocean Systems Lab group pose on the WHOI dock with a sample of their REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) vehicles, which are designed for coastal monitoring as well as…

An aerial view of the village of Woods Hole, with the Institution dock facilities at the center. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) research vessels Knorr, Oceanus, and Atlantis are at…

A stack of letters in “Santa’s Mailbox” in Nuuk, Greenland await delivery to the North Pole. A giant red mailbox located in downtown Nuuk stands right outside the town’s post…

Lou St. Laurent and John Toole lower a High Resolution Profiler over the side of the R/V Endeavor during a September 2009 cruise. The instrument was being tested in preparation…

Andrew McDonnell, a joint program student in marine chemistry and geochemistry, holds a jar full of sinking particles collected at 150 meters depth during a cruise along the West Antarctic…

WHOI Senior Scientist Larry Pratt of the Physical Oceanography Department and MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Wilken-Jon von Appen and Ping Zhai test a volume flow rate formula developed in one…

Cara Manning (center), a 2009 Summer Student Fellow from the University of Victoria, Canada, works in the lab.  She investigated how much nitrous oxide — a potent greenhouse gas —…

Depending on interpretation, this view of the ctenophore Ocyropsis maculata looks like either an ancient Greek helmet or a clamshell bucket for earth-moving machines. This large (to 6”) predator uses…