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The Volcano Explorer
Interview with geologist Ken Sims on his experience researching volcanoes.
Read MoreYeti Crab
Alvin discovers a big white crab with long “fur” on its legs, now called Kiwa hirsuta.
Read MoreIce-Tethered Profiler Deployment
WHOI’s Ice-Tethered Profiler drifts with Arctic ice, sending daily data on ocean conditions via satellite—unless a polar bear gets curious.
Read MoreNorth Atlantic Right Whale
Dr. Michael Moore talks about the North Atlantic Right Whale and what the future may hold for this endangered charismatic species.
Read MoreHydrothermal Vents
Geologist Susan Humphris explains hydrothermal vents — seafloor openings where heated, mineral-rich water escapes from Earth’s crust.
Read MoreGiant worm from the deep sea
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kate Buckman stands in front of the submersible Alvin, holding the iconic animal from undersea hydrothermal vents: a giant tubeworm (Riftia pachyptila.) The fast-growing worms have…
Read MoreThe once and future Alvin
A photo, circa 1967, shows the research submersible Alvin with two support swimmers, as crew watch from Lulu, Alvin’s first tender ship. WHOI still operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence…
Read MoreDeep-sea Corals
Deep-sea corals thrive without sunlight, filter-feeding in the deep ocean and forming ancient structures that reveal clues about past ocean conditions.
Read MoreWater is terrific! Bugs? Not so hot
Maya Bhatia, a doctoral student at WHOI, took hundreds of water samples this summer to learn about water chemistry during seven weeks of research in western Greenland. Bhatia, who works…
Read MoreResearchers Band Together to Create a Band
Four researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution mix music into their lives and, occasionally, science into their lyrics.
Read MoreLooking it over
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Stephanie Owens isn’t on a jungle gym—she’s checking specialized pumps used to filter water collected at various depths in the ocean and extract trace amounts of…
Read MoreGoing with the flow
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students and their instructors take a break from hiking for a group photo at the base of Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica during a June 2008…
Read MoreBuoys in the blue
Free-diving, WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda checks the line securing two below-surface buoys to his mooring on a coral reef in the Red Sea, in June 2008. The buoys bear Arabic…
Read MoreConserving cold-water corals
A large pink sea fan, which belongs to the genus Paragorgia, holds within its branches a thriving community of brittle stars, crabs, and shrimp. Deep coral ecosystems, which host extremely…
Read MoreOut from the sediments, into the water
WHOI Chemist Carl Lamborg holds a Niskin bottle, which is used to collect water samples. During work conducted in Waquoit Bay in 2005, Lamborg, fellow chemist Matt Charette, and other…
Read MoreProtecting fish nurseries
Juvenile coral reef fish get food and protection from predators among the roots and nutrient-rich waters of coastal mangrove swamps. These valuable fish nurseries are disappearing at an alarming rate.…
Read MoreAll Aboard, Standing Room Only
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s “workhorse” research vessel, R/V Oceanus, leaves the WHOI dock in July 2007, more-than-fully loaded with equipment for the NTAS (Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station) project. In a…
Read MoreLaunching the Mooring
Deploying a 180-meter mooring is high-stakes science—years of work rides on a smooth launch and vital ocean data collection.
Read MoreRocks Do Tell Tales
A rock sample, collected from the Central Indian Ridge, a mountain chain running through the Indian Ocean, sparkles with information. It’s channel is lined with a fine-grained mineral called chalcopyrite as…
Read MoreSay “Cheese” Deep beneath the Pacific
The ride in the submersible Alvin is cozy, with just enough space for three people. Mark Spear, an Alvin pilot, snapped this shot standing up as the submersible returned to…
Read MoreStudies of a Pristine Setting
Sunset creeps across the shore at the Liquid Jungle Laboratory in Panama, a new, privately-funded research lab for the study of tropical marine and land ecosystems. WHOI scientists helped design…
Read MoreCheerful Farewell
Students from Seltjarnarnes Community in Iceland toured the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr in early October prior to its departure for research in the Irminger Sea. The school is one of five…
Read MoreIt Takes a Village
Boats fill Eel Pond in the village of Woods Hole,which is home to a variety of research institutions, including (left to right) National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Biological Laboratory,…
Read MoreSparring on the Dock
Engineers Will Ostrom (foreground) and Dan Duffany prepare to test the ballast of a spar buoy off the WHOI dock in July 2008. The buoy was built as a replacement…
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