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Seeing is Believing
Marine acoustician Tim Duda uses a novelty wave tank to demonstrate what it is difficult to see in the ocean: how differences in fluid properties can lead to waves beneath…
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MIT/WHOI Joint Program students wash dishes after a meal on a windjammer off the coast of Maine during the June 2007 field trip that capped the annual Geodynamics Seminar series.…
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 MoreDiploma-Sea
The research vessel Knorr and the Iselin Marine Facility serve as the backdrop for the first commencement ceremonies for the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in 1970. The program’s first four graduates…
Read MoreNon-random Sampling
Researchers aboard the R/V Oceanus affix a hose to the CTD rosette (frame) to collect large-volume water samples with a pump system during a May 2008 expedition in New England…
Read MoreSwinging for the Intellectual Fences
Joseph Keller of Stanford University prepares to take a swing at a pitch from George Veronis of Yale University on WHOI’s McKee Ballfield during a summer softball game. Keller and…
Read MoreHurricane Watch
A cross-section of a marsh at Barn Island, Conn., shows light-colored layers of sand laid down by Hurricane Carol in 1954 (at 10 centimeters) and the 1938 Hurricane (at 14…
Read MoreWatching the River Flow
Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Thousands of lakes form every summer on top of Greenland’s glaciers, as sunlight and…
Read MoreCelebrating the Little Ones
WHOI microbiologist John Waterbury examines phytoplankton samples in his lab in the Stanley W. Watson Biogeochemistry Building. Today Waterbury is joining MIT biologist Penny Chisholm and WHOI biologist Robert Olson…
Read MoreSurf’s Up for Science
Researchers from WHOI and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography carry an instrument tower into the surf near La Jolla, California, to measure the movement of water beneath the breaking waves.…
Read MoreThe Good Old Days?
Electronic equipment and a snarl of wires fills a lab on the research vessel Chain in February 1966. WHOI’s first at-sea computer was an IBM installed on Chain in 1962;…
Read MoreWell Anchored
This May, WHOI buoy technicians deployed their 1,200th mooring, the most recent coming in the North Atlantic as part of the Line W array. Since 1960, the WHOI Buoy Group…
Read MoreDrilling for Climate Clues
WHOI geochemist Konrad Hughen drills for a core sample from a coral located in shallow water in the Honduras Bay Islands. Researchers can use cores to assess the current health…
Read MoreLaunching Into Coastal Research
WHOI employees, benfactors, and shipyard workers gathered on March 29, 2004, for the ceremonial blessing and launch of the coastal research vessel Tioga. The name Tioga comes from the Iroquois…
Read MoreCold Comfort
For several weeks in the summers of 2006 and 2007, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington camped on top of Greenland’s ice sheet in order to study the…
Read MoreScience is an Adventure
Born in Holzminden, Germany, on May 23, 1927, Holger Jannasch pioneered the field of deep-sea microbiology. Inspired by the condition of the food in the infamous Alvin lunch box (1969),…
Read MoreLooking in the Genes for a Guide to Living
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Diane Poehls Adams (now a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health) prepares biological samples for genetic analysis in the spring of 2004. Poehls Adams worked…
Read MoreSeeds of Aquaculture
From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield investigated clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large harbor in…
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kjetil Våge operates a winch on the working deck of the research vessel Oceanus during an expedition in the North Atlantic in November 2007. Våge, Dave…
Read MorePilot and Beaked Whales off the Canary Islands
Tagging the whales to study their behavior
I’ll Follow the Sun
The Sun sets over the Atlantic Ocean near Andros Island, Bahamas, on April 19, 2008. Researchers from WHOI’s Acoustic Communications Group deployed and retrieved buoys—two are resting on the fantail…
Read MoreDifficult But Necessary Work
WHOI biologist and veterinarian Michael Moore (red jacket) and David Taylor, a retired high school biology teacher and WHOI guest investigator, prepare to perform a necropsy on a right whale…
Read MoreFamily Reunion
It may sound odd for an oceanographic institution, but it is actually an unusual occurrence when more than one research vessel is docked at WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility. The ships…
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