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Live From Indonesia
A computer monitor in the lab of deep-sea biologist Tim Shank displays images and live video from the INDEX 2010 expedition. The mission to explore the depths and diversity of…
Read MoreOnce 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 48…
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 Scientist…
Read MoreDeep Beauty and Diversity
Seamounts often support high biodiversity and abundance and attract commercial fishing, but we know little about them. The international research project CenSeam—a Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts—is led…
Read MorePanning 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 Beach…
Read MoreWhere in the world?
Where in the world is Tim Shank? One of WHOI’s most peripatetic scientists, biologist Shank points to some of his research sites. He studies the evolution and linkages of animals…
Read MoreHome 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 their seamount…
Read MoreA decidedly defensive stance
Seamounts are underwater mountains found throughout the global ocean. Many seamounts are extinct volcanoes that once erupted from seafloor vents, with lava flows building thousands of meters up from the…
Read MoreCold 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 underwater volcanoes,…
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 TowCam during…
Read MoreCivic Duty
WHOI geologist Rob Evans (left) testifies before the Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, of the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2005. Each year, dozens of WHOI…
Read MoreOcean 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 eddies around…
Read MoreLunch Time
Crabs cover the sample basket on the front of DSV Alvin during 2002 dives near Patton Seamount in the Gulf of Alaska. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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 visiting…
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