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Muddy Past
Konrad Hughen, a paleoclimatologist in the WHOI Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, recently worked with archaeologist and anthropologists to show that Neanderthals probably did not die out from an…
Read MoreSteadying Hands
Able Seaman Clindor Cacho holds tight to the hook end of a winch on the research vessel Oceanus. Researchers and crew have sailed on the vessel several times this year…
Read MoreSpreading the Jelly
This “colonial” jelly a siphonophore of the Rosacea genus was spied in April 2006 by divers in the blue waters of the Sargasso Sea during a Census of Marine Zooplankton…
Read MoreKnow with the Flow
Students Jinbo Wang (left) and Evgeny Logvinov help conduct a Rossby wave experiment in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as part of a graduate course. Red dye was injected into…
Read MorePillars of a Community
WHOI seafloor geologist Dan Fornari and then-graduate student Tracey Gregg inspect a portion of a lava pillar that was generated during a 1991 eruption on the East Pacific Rise (EPR).…
Read MoreDancing Cows of the Sea
Despite their lumbering appearance, manatees are graceful swimmers and to many, a vanishing symbol of wild Florida. Researchers from WHOI and several science and conservation institutions hope digital tags, or…
Read MoreDay of Knight
A group of journalists from the Knight Science Journalism program assemble on the aft deck of the research vessel Oceanus for a tour in October 2007 with WHOI science writer…
Read MoreI Love the Night Life
The lights are on, but (almost) nobody’s home on a Saturday night in Woods Hole in March 2007. From left to right stand the Candle House and Visitor Center of…
Read MoreUnusual Commute to Work
Researchers and technicians from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boarded and refurbished the “Middle Atlantic” buoy of the National Data Buoy Center network during an April 2007 expedition. WHOI…
Read MoreReef Watch
A clownfish swims amid the corals of the Red Sea, where WHOI researchers are planning to team with colleagues from Saudi Arabia to examine a reef system that has mostly…
Read MoreMuddy Waters
Bryn Warren, guest student in the WHOI Biology Department, and WHOI postdoctoral fellow Luciano Fernandes process mud samples collected from the Gulf of Maine in October 2007. The researchers were…
Read MoreCoral Destruction
Cold Insulation
When sea ice forms, it releases salt into surface waters. These waters become denser and sink to form the Arctic halocline a layer of cold water that acts as barrier…
Read MoreWHOI Pier Over Time
2004
Read MoreAscension Day
A crewmember from the research vessel Knorr rises into a helicopter operated by the Icelandic coast guard during a recent cruise in the North Atlantic. When the coast guard came…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The science party on the research vessel Knorr looks forward to its homecoming in Woods Hole after two weeks at sea testing the new Long Core system. (Photo by Richard…
Read MoreGetting in Tune
Able seaman Ronnie Whims, part of the crew of the research vessel Oceanus, plucks out a tune on his guitar while resting on the ship’s port-side deck near a Craib…
Read MoreStaying On Top of His Work
Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel Ronald…
Read MoreIce Water
The research vessel Knorr stands tall amid the pleasure boats and working boats at a dock in Reykjavik harbor. The ship put in some port time in Iceland before headling…
Read MoreSoaring
WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and oceanographer Jerry Dean recover the Seasoar towed vehicle (with a mounted video plankton recorder) in February 1997 from the research vessel Oceanus. The…
Read MoreTeeming with Opportunity
WHOI scientists captured this view of a coral reef in the Red Sea during a spring 2007 visit to Saudi Arabia. Researchers from the Middle East kingdom have asked WHOI…
Read MoreGo Sox
Working and living at sea is never easy, but it is even harder when your favorite team is in the World Series and you aren’t due home for two weeks.…
Read MoreA Firm Grip
Marine technician Gary Austin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory assembles a soft tether release on the Low Frequency Acoustic Seismic Experiment (LFASE) in August 1989. Researchers…
Read MoreCut Ups
Adelphi University researchers Amanda Uster and Beth Christensen (right) open a sediment core retrieved from the continental shelf off New Jersey during an August 2007 expedition on the research vessel…
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