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Milestones for Alvin
In the Nursery
Bluefin tuna are the largest of all tuna species—adults can reach ten feet in length and weigh more than a thousand pounds. But they start out small, as 2- to […]
Read MoreBack to Atlantis
Members of a 1947-48 cruise row back to the R/V Atlantis (visible in the background). The primary purpose of the six-month “Med Cruise” was to prepare bathymetric charts of […]
Read MoreA Tale of Three Ships
The WHOI research vessels Crawford, Atlantis, and Gosnold (left to right) were all in Woods Hole, Mass., on this warm day in 1963. The Crawford, a 125-foot Coast Guard cutter […]
Read MoreWhat Lies Under the Beach?
A team of international scientists led by Ken Buesseler at WHOI dug pits to sample sand and groundwater at a popular surfing beach in Yotsukura, Japan, for residual radioactivity […]
Read MoreThat is a Spat
All coral colonies start off as a single newly settled polyp, or “spat.” This single polyp grows and divides asexually into thousands of clonal polyps that form a colony. Read More
Creature Feature
This shrimp was collected this summer on a WHOI-led cruise to the Northwestern Atlantic aboard the NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow. The expedition was WHOI’s first to […]
Read MoreSmall Plate
It’s a simple fact of life in the ocean that there are more small marine animals than large ones, but that it’s easier to tag a large animal than […]
Read MoreFully Loaded
A coastal surface mooring lies beneath the A-frame on the research vessel Neil Armstrong, while two instrumented anchor frames sit next to the gangway waiting to be loaded […]
Read MoreJust a Little Off the Top
Kirstin Meyer, a postdoctoral scholar at WHOI, holds an underwater note pad near a juvenile Porites lobata coral that she just sampled. You can see the little white […]
Read MoreEarly Expeditions
Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1958, watches as scientist Edmund Watson and others depart on a research […]
Read MoreFrozen PIES
From left, WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue, University of Oregon professor Dave Sutherland, and WHOI scientist Magdalena Andres deploy an instrument known as PIES—a pressure-sensor equipped inverted echo sounder—in […]
Read MoreA Gobbling Deep-Sea Vehicle
Scientific Assembly Line
It took a village of researchers to process a tube of sediments cored from Great Barnstable Salt Marsh on Cape Cod. Working in WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak‘s lab are, […]
Read MoreExploring the USS Arizona
In July 2018, WHOI chemist Chris Reddy traveled to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to collect oil samples from surface sheens near the USS Arizona, which has been leaking oil since […]
Read MoreRadioactivity in the Ocean
Crew members on the Japanese research vessel Shinsei Maru deploy a “multi-corer” to collect samples of seafloor sediments just offshore from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. WHOI scientist Read More
Scallops Under Threat
Atlantic sea scallops are a $500 million annual industry, but WHOI scientists believe they may be in danger. A new model developed by WHOI researcher Jennie Rheuban suggests that as human-induced […]
Read MoreA Wonder of a Vehicle
The free-swimming robotic vehicle Sentry has had many “faces” over the years, often thanks to WHOI engineer and electrical tape artist Justin Fujii. In honor of Sentry’s 500th […]
Read MoreHeading North
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Joleen Heiderich and WHOI engineer Patrick Deane deploy a Spray glider from a small boat off the coast of Miami. The robotic vehicle is the […]
Read MoreAncient Inlet
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Rachel Gold (Brown University) examines a sediment core from Lake Carmi, Vermont. The sediments provide evidence of an inland sea—formerly known as the Champlain Sea—that […]
Read MoreMonsoon Prediction
WHOI scientists are working in the Indian Ocean to gain new insights into forecasting monsoons—the seasonal, heavy rain storms that billions of people on the Indian subcontinent depend […]
Read MoreSee SPOT Run
Diminishing sea ice in the Antarctic will mean fewer fish and squid to eat for emperor penguins—like these at Atka Bay Colony. The Single Penguin Observation and Tracking (SPOT) Observatory […]
Read MoreProtecting the Troops
During World War II, WHOI scientists and engineers contributed to the war effort with some 40 projects that advanced understanding of underwater sound, helped predict the movement of […]
Read MoreHonoring an Educational Pioneer
Family and friends gather with Arthur E. Maxwell (third from left) at festivities at WHOI in September 2018 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Read More