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Pingo Bingo
Tuktoyaktuk means “Land of the Caribou” in the Inuvialuit language, which explains the sculpture, but it’s the landscape that interests MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Lauren Kipp. Kipp traveled to […]
Read MoreMore Than a Little Bit
Like surgeons laying out scalpels, researchers prepare the bits they will use to drill holes through meters-thick sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The holes provide access for instruments to […]
Read MoreTen Years Later
In 2006, WHOI launched Image of the Day. Since then, nearly 4,000 images have graced the home page highlighting WHOI researchers, expeditions, and discoveries. This is the very first image […]
Read MoreMystic Beluga
WHOI biologist Aran Mooney (black jacket) traveled to Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn., to study hearing in beluga whales. Mooney, with Manuel Castellote from the NOAA National […]
Read MoreFjording Ahead
A satellite image shows Helheim Glacier, one of many glaciers that drain ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into coastal fjords that connect to the open ocean. MIT-WHOI […]
Read MoreOld As Ice
This image of a blue iceberg, calved off a glacier, was captured on a recent research trip to waters off Greenland. Its striking color indicates that the ice in it […]
Read MoreIn the Path of Piteraqs
Greenland GPS
North with the Spring
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy is the nation’s newest and most advanced polar icebreaker. It is also designed to conduct a variety of scientific activities in difficult conditions. […]
Read MoreTreecicles
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jessie Pearl led a team into the Acushnet Cedar Swamp State Reservation in New Bedford, Mass., recently in search of white cedar trees from […]
Read MoreNew Tool
Andy Bowen, director of the National Deep Submergence Facility at WHOI, right, showed off the Institution’s newest underwater vehicle, Nereid Under Ice, (NUI) to Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations. […]
Read MoreIce Breaker
WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak and guest student Kelsey Gosselin had to clear ice from a frozen pond in Rowley, Mass., last month to get access to the water and mud […]
Read MoreLove That Dirty Water
Meltwater carrying finely ground glacial till is visible from the air as researchers prepare to deploy instruments into a West Greeenland fjord by helicopter. WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo led a […]
Read MoreSlow and Low
A helicopter flies back from the edge of Sarqardliup Glacier in West Greenland, where glacialogist Sarah Das and physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo […]
Read MoreSummer Visitor
Fording the Fjord
Maneuvering amid ice ranging from chunks to icebergs, MIT-WHOI graduate student Rebecca Jackson and Dave Sutherland of the University of Oregon conduct operations in the Sermilik Fjord on […]
Read MoreImplosion!
To investigate the flow of meltwater from glaciers into the ocean, a research team led by WHOI oceanographer Fiamma Straneo installed a mooring in the Sermilik Fjord in […]
Read MoreYoung Sea Ice In Woods Hole
The R/V Sikuliaq stopped at WHOI’s dock on its way from Wisconsin, where it was built, to its home port of Seward, Alaska. Capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 […]
Read MoreHappy Earth Day
We call it Earth, but our home planet is nearly covered by water. The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, while another 10 percent is locked in […]
Read MoreLove that Dirty Water
Meltwater carrying finely ground glacial till is visible from the air as researchers prepare to deploy instruments into a West Greeenland fjord by helicopter. WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo […]
Read MoreReady for the Ice
Ken Fairhurst prepares to load an ice-ocean environmental buoy (IOEB) onto a ship in 1990 for a cruise to the Antarctic. IOEBs were designed to deploy instruments attached to […]
Read MoreGoing, Going, Gone
An ice-tethered profiler (ITP) takes one last look at the sky before passing through four meters of ice in the Beaufort Sea to begin a study of ocean physics, […]
Read MoreNow You See Them…
Safe Passage
Icebergs were a common sight around the British icebreaker James Clark Ross during a 30-day summer research cruise along Greenland’s east coast to the high-Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The […]
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