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Once More Unto the Rift
Giant clams up to one foot long thrive in the crevices around seafloor pillow lava, which vent hydrothermal fluids with chemical nutrients. This vent site in the Pacific on the […]
Read MoreMedusa at Sea
The Medusa-like head of a programmable water sampler is prepared for deployment. The sampler, which is made by McLane Research Laboratories of East Falmouth, Mass., can collect up to […]
Read MoreA Picture-Perfect Volcano
The A-frame of the R/V Tangaroa frames Mount Maunganui, the dormant volcano that welcomes mariners to the port of Tauranga, New Zealand. Tauranga was the departure point for Associate […]
Read MoreDeep Beauty and Diversity
Panning for worms
Research specialist Stace Beaulieu (at left), Summer Student Fellow Eric Rozell, and other students examine invertebrates they sieved from the sand and sediments in the tidal channel at Woodneck […]
Read MoreWhere in the world?
Home sweet home
Seamounts support a vast variety of cold water coral communities. These deep-sea corals themselves host more than 1,300 different species of animals. Some animals are often unique to […]
Read MoreA decidedly defensive stance
Cold water corals
Scientists collected thousands of samples of cold-water corals living on the seafloor during three expeditions between 2003 and 2005 to the New England Seamounts, a chain of extinct […]
Read MoreSteady as she goes
On board the R/V Thomas Thompson cruise TN230 on the Kermadec Arc north of New Zealand, marine geologist Dan Fornari (in boots) steadies the imaging and sampling vehicle […]
Read MoreCivic Duty
Ocean on a Table
WHOI physical oceanographer Claudia Cenedese (left) and Rachel Bueno de Mesquita, a visiting researcher from the University of Rome, developed this laboratory experiment to study fluid flow and […]
Read MoreLunch Time
Crabs cover the sample basket on the front of DSV Alvin during 2002 dives near Patton Seamount in the Gulf of […]
Read MoreRound and Round
WHOI scientist Claudia Cenedese (in dark shirt) simulates fluid flow and eddies around seamounts using a rotating table and colored dyes. Rachel Bueno de Mesquita (in pink) is a […]
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