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Wait for me!
Glaciologist Ian Joughin hustles toward a chopper as it lands on top of the Greenland ice sheet in July 2007. Joughin and several colleagues from WHOI and the University of…
Read MoreConnecting the Dots
A computer screen capture shows a map of the sampling locations for the research crew sailing on the RV Oceanus in May and June 2008 to study harmful algal blooms…
Read MoreStress Test
WHOI marine chemist Konrad Hughen adjusts the temperatures on a set of aquarium heaters at the Mote Marine Laboratory in February 2007. The aquaria housed fragments of corals—species Montastrea faveolata—that…
Read MoreDouble Team
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Tim Shanahan and MIT/WHOI student Kim Popendorf—both from the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry—work to filter plankton from water samples in the main lab of the…
Read MoreSurfing for Data
WHOI coastal oceanographers Britt Raubenheimer (blue-purple wetsuit) and Steve Elgar (black suit at right) join colleagues from three institutions in setting up instrument tripods and cables in the surf zone…
Read MoreNet Gain or Loss?
WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian (left) and U.S. Coast Guard marine science technician Daniel Gaona deploy a ring net from the icebreaker Healy in the summer of 2003. Ashjian and colleagues…
Read MoreFishing for Carbon
MIT/WHOI graduate student Maya Bhatia sets up an incubation experiment to measure carbon in the meltwaters that stream and pool across the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Bhatia’s advisors…
Read MoreYellow Submarine
Engineer Bob Elder prepares the REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle for testing in the harbor of Woods Hole in May 2008. The AUV is headed to Estonia this summer for…
Read MoreShow and Tell
Biologist Darlene Ketten (at left) introduces a group of WHOI trustees to the study of marine mammal anatomy and hearing during a tour of the Computerized Scanning and Imaging (CSI)…
Read MoreHere at Our Sea-Washed Sunset Gates
The research vessel Atlantis passes Lady Liberty in 1997, shortly after the Navy-owned, WHOI-operated ship was commissioned for oceanographic research. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
Read MoreSEA Jake Peirson Summer Cruise
New graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program gather alongside ship’s crew on the deck of the Corwith Cramer on June 24, 2008. They would later set sail on a…
Read MoreA Scientist’s Patriotic Duty
On June 5, 2008, WHOI senior scientist Scott Doney (center) testified before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology. Doney,…
Read MoreAn Expedition Wa-a-ay Down Under
Ice Water
Each summer, meltwater ponds and lakes form on top of the Greenland ice sheet, as sunlight and warm air melt the surface. This meltwater can sometimes penetrate the thick, cold…
Read MoreTowering Above the Atlantic
Texas Tower #2 rises above Georges Shoal—about 100 miles offshore from Cape Cod—in 1955. Built by the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War, the tower was a radar facility…
Read MoreRock-Solid Evidence
In a WHOI laboratory, geophysicist Rob Reves-Sohn (left), geologist Adam Soule, and graduate student Claire Willis analyze samples of seafloor deposits brought back from the Gakkel Ridge. Those deposits have…
Read MoreEarth, Wind, and Fire in Antarctica
From a windy, isolated camp in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, three scientists explore how the waterless, lifeless, volcanic terrain formed and evolved.
Read MoreWater World
Thick cumulus clouds rise above the relatively calm waters of the North Atlantic in the summer of 2004. WHOI researchers enjoyed the view from the research vessel Knorr during an…
Read MoreCell Counts
On the research vessel Oceanus in May 2008, the backside of a hatch to the lower decks serves as the bulletin board and presentation backdrop for oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy as…
Read MoreWash Up Before Supper
Researchers clean the muck from their sensors at the end of a day in the Waves Over Really Muddy Seafloors Experiment (WormsEx) along the Louisiana coast. Scientists affiliated with WHOI’s…
Read MoreThose Were the Days
Engineers and students from the WHOI Deep Submergence Laboratory gather around the first full-scale Jason remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Blake Building in 1990. Now in its third generation,…
Read MoreGetting a Grip on Biogeochemistry
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch (top) and chemistry research assistant Justin Ossolinski recover a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette from the Sargasso Sea in April 2008. Marine chemist Ben Van Mooy…
Read MoreHalf-sunny or Half-cloudy?
Fair weather meets foul late on an August 2004 day in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska. Since 2003, WHOI researchers have been examining the dynamics and changes in Arctic…
Read MoreA Whale of a Good Time
Kindergarten children from the Saint Margaret Regional School (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) enjoy listening and learning about whales during a visit to the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center in May 2008.…
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