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Celebrating a new university
Today is the inauguration of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) — a new world-class, graduate-level scientific research university. KAUST has an agreement with Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Read MoreParading penguins
The royal penguins on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean entertained and inspired WHOI Associates during an educational cruise to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Sub-Antarctic Islands in the winter…
Read MoreA brilliant spectrum of color
Viewed in polarized light, this thin section of the skeleton of a Pacific reef-building coral, Acropora gemmifera, looks more like abstract art. WHOI researchers are currently involved in a three-week…
Read MoreRide ’em cowboy
DSV Alvin pilot Valentine Wilson sits atop the research submarine, shown in its earliest incarnation in 1966 (the external shape and design have been altered a bit over the years).…
Read MoreSeismic receiver workshop
Engineer Warren Witzell works at assembling a WHOI “D2” ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS), available to earthquake researchers through the U.S. National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods…
Read MoreOne last stop before heading home
R/V Knorr entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii last month after a transit from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Knorr has since returned home to WHOI after having completed 13 legs in 9 months…
Read MoreSubterranean mixing bowl
Ann Mulligan checks groundwater levels and salinity as part of monitoring studies of the saltwater-freshwater interface through time. Between 5 and 10 percent of the fresh water in the ocean…
Read MoreDeep diving
The new deep-see explorer Nereus is launched from the research vessel Kilo Moana during a June 2009 expedition to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. James Buescher from SPAWAR…
Read MoreJournalists at sea
WHOI plankton ecologist Heidi Sosik (center, back to the camera) stands on the fantail of the coastal research vessel Tioga and explains ocean observatories and coastal dynamics to reporters participating…
Read MoreMade to fit
A fisheye view of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Long Core shot from the starboard hangar of the research vessel Knorr. The wall of the hangar, the upper portion now…
Read MoreAs the seawater turns
As principal instructors for the Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program in 1968—the topic was “general circulation of the ocean”—physical oceanographers Henry Stommel (left) and Lou Howard hopped onto a…
Read MoreMighty microorganism
Tiny species like this Euphausid photographed in a drop of water are prey to larger organisms in the oceanic food chain. About the size of a fingernail, the shrimp-like creature…
Read MoreCoastal Observer
Oceanographic Systems Laboratory engineer Phil Bouxsein (left) and engineering technician Amy Kukulya lift a Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS(REMUS) vehicle onto the transport cart. REMUS vehicles are robotic submarines resembling torpedoes…
Read MoreVisual explanations go a long way
WHOI animation specialist Jack Cook (center) works with senior research specialist Jim Broda (right) on an animation of the WHOI Long Core system for the research vessel Knorr. WHOI Creative…
Read MoreHere fishy, fishy
Summer Student Fellow Abigail LaBella —shown here collecting fish samples from Scorton Creek in Sandwich, MA — spent her summer studying the genetic interaction between hypoxia (low oxygen) and endocrine…
Read MoreFrom one village to another
Hauke Kite-Powell (at left in baseball cap), a Marine Policy Center research specialist, hosted a group of visitors this summer from the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania, where he is…
Read MoreGreenland’s glaciers
A Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) recorder and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) are deployed in Sermilik Fjord in Greenland where WHOI researcher Fiamma Straneo and colleagues are measuring…
Read MoreA plethora of polyps
Polyps of the star coral, montrastrea cavernosa, with a green algae at its center, used as a source of food. Star coral are common in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and…
Read MoreBlue ice sculpture
An iceberg stands between the Antarctic Research Support Vessel Laurence M. Gould and Palmer Station, as viewed from the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. Researchers spent several weeks in the winter…
Read MoreCoring for Climate Clues
In April 2009, onboard the Research Vessel Knorr, the at-sea operations team maneuvers the Long Core release module into place prior to its deployment. The release module has an acoustic…
Read MoreA-Frame(d) Atlantis
As the R/V Atlantis sails into port, it is seen from within R/V Knorr‘s A-frame while docked at San Diego in June of this year. Owned by the US Navy,…
Read MoreFloating without imploding
To allow a heavy deep-sea vehicle like Nereus to float in the deepest depths, engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used an entirely new system of ceramic spheres to…
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