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Conditions change markedly moving west across the South Pacific from Chile, where coastal waters are filled with essential nutrients–including nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron–to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), where nutrients are […]

Field engineers Rob Harper (right) and Bob Rich from Thermo Fisher Scientific pour liquid helium as they install a Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR MS) in the Fye […]

WHOI scientist Benjamin Van Mooy (right) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jamie Collins flank the proof-of-concept version of an instrument called PHORCYS. Van Mooy co-developed the […]

The microbes on a whale’s skin could provide clues to its health. In a recent study, WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill collected skin samples from humpback whales in the North […]

WHOI biologist Cabell Davis spearheaded the development of this instrument, called a Video Plankton Recorder, to capture images of the ocean’s multitudes of tiny, unseen life forms: Read More

Ocean scientists have access to sophisticated instruments to study the ocean, but sometimes, nothing beats a bucket for collecting water samples. For a study on phytoplankton, MIT-WHOI Joint […]

Kristen Hunter-Cevera cultured different types of colorful phytoplankton called Synechococcus, found in seawater samples from WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO). Hunter-Cevera, who recently earned her Ph.D. in […]

This universe of golden-yellow bubbles is actually a sample of Antarctic marine phytoplankton called Phaeocystis. The tiny yellow dots on each ball are actually individual algal cells forming hollow spherical […]