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2010 Haiti Earthquake
The Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti alleviated built-up stress along one segment (blue gridded area boxes) of the Enriquillo fault, which cuts across the island. But scientists calculated areas (red […]
Read MoreDoes Sand Move Bacteria at the Beach?
(Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreBacteria and Diatoms
Bacteria and unicellular marine plants called diatoms depend on each other for some essential nutrients, but they also compete for other nutrients. So life gets complicated in the chemical soup […]
Read MoreIndian Ocean Dipole
The Indian Ocean has its own seesaw behavior, the Indian Ocean Dipole. During a so-called positive phase, warmer-than-usual water temperatures in the western Indian Ocean bring heavy rains to East […]
Read MoreGreenland-Scotland Ridge
The Greenland-Scotland Ridge is a tall undersea ridge that rises within 500 meters of the sea surface and extends from East Greenland to Iceland and across to Scotland. The ridge […]
Read MoreLet the Sunshine In
Single-celled phytoplankton carry out photosynthesis within specialized organelles called chloroplasts. Like factories, the chloroplasts’ photosynthetic machinery requires raw materials and energy—sunlight—to operate. Cells living in the ocean must rapidly adapt […]
Read MoreMarine Microbe Relations
By closely examining the stew of organic carbon compounds dissolved in the ocean, scientists are beginning to reveal previously unknown relationships between specific marine microbes, forged by the materials they […]
Read MoreUXO Marks the Spot
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the 1940s and 50s can sometimes resurface in the surf or wash up on beaches at former U.S. military coastal training ranges as the coast erodes. […]
Read MoreAlvin, Phone Home
When the human-occupied submersible Alvin surfaces from a deep-sea mission, specially trained crew members called “swimmers” ride a small boat from the research vessel Atlantis to meet […]
Read MoreBreaking Through
WHOI research engineer Peter Koski prepares an ice tethered profiler for Arctic deployment, working in the science lab of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy. Koski was one of 30 scientists […]
Read MoreMic Drop
Adam Smith, a visiting investigator in WHOI biologist Aran Mooney’s lab, sets up several microphones that will be “dropped” down the side of a cliff and into the burrows […]
Read MoreCreating the Perfect Rip
Rip currents pose a threat to public safety, so officials are interested in ways to predict when and where they form. To study the dynamic and intermittent conditions that create […]
Read MoreFirst Time Out
Postdoctoral investigator Eyal Wurgaft, research assistant Kate Morkeski, and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Mallory Ringham (left to right) lower the new Channelized Optical System (CHANOS II) instrument into […]
Read MoreA Mighty Current
The cool waters of the Equatorial Undercurrent flow east across the Central Pacific Ocean. After traveling thousands of miles, the current runs into into the Galápagos Islands about 500 miles […]
Read MoreSounds of the Reef
Engineer Rod Catanach sets up a four-channel acoustic recorder to measure coral reef soundscapes—a combination of biological and non-biological sounds produced by everything from fish to waves—during field work […]
Read MoreBleached Corals
Hanny Rivera, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, takes a tissue sample from a bleached coral. When ocean waters warm, corals lose the colorful algae […]
Read MoreReady to Cast Off
Undergraduate students in the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program prepare for a day at sea aboard the research vessel Gulf Challenger in 2018. Each summer SSFs come to […]
Read MoreUnderwater Milestone
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry passed a milestone in October 2018, when it completed its 500th dive. The free-swimming, programmable robot was designed and built by WHOI engineers and completed […]
Read MoreThe Tale of the Arizona
This two-dimensional gas chromatogram created by WHOI technician Bob Nelson from samples collected by chemist Chris Reddy tells a very special story. In July 2018, Reddy traveled to Pearl […]
Read MoreA Disruptive Gathering
The WHOI Center for Marine Robotics organized their Annual Entreprenureal Showcase and Leadership Forum this year with the theme “Disruptive and Disrupting.” On the first day, attendees gathered […]
Read MoreThe Panteleyev Award
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Genevieve Brett (second from left) receives the 2018 George “Gera” Pavlovich Panteleyev Award, awarded to the graduating student, elected by students and faculty, who […]
Read MoreThe Holy Grail of Shipwrecks
In early 2018, WHOI obtained authorization to release new details about its role in the successful 2015 search for the three-century old Spanish galleon San José, which sank during […]
Read MoreA Bag of Gold
Chawalit Charoenpong, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, uses a blowtorch to heat up a bag made of gold as part of an experiment to learn more […]
Read MoreA Visit to Crab Spa
The manipulator arm of the human-occupied submersible Alvin holds an isobaric gas-tight (IGT) sampler to collect vent fluids flowing from a seafloor hydrothermal vent site in the […]
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