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Expanding Horizons
Ken Houtler, captain of the coastal research vessel Tioga, teaches Summer Student Fellow DeAnna McCadney how to use a sextant during a demonstration cruise in July 2006. Every summer, dozens…
Read MoreCrabby Investigators
For decades, marine chemists and ecologists have been wondering: does the oil that was spilled into a Cape Cod salt marsh in 1969 still have an impact on the wildlife…
Read MoreWhat Does It Take to Break a Whale?
MIT/WHOI graduate student Regina Campbell-Malone put a 493-pound, 14-foot whale jawbone through a series of stress tests to assess the amount of force required to break whale bones. Campbell-Malone, advisor…
Read MoreCatch of the Day
Postdoctoral fellow Rhian Waller holds a bundle of tubeworms collected during a seafloor dive by scientists in the Alvin submersible to the Galapagos Rift. Waller is a benthic ecologist who…
Read MoreIlluminating Work
Former WHOI associate scientist Paul Dunlap works in his biology laboratory in 1995 on an experiment with bioluminescent bacteria. Marine organisms ranging from bacteria to fish make their own chemically…
Read MoreGreat Way to Spend a Summer Day
Researchers and ship crewmembers from the icebreaker Oden shovel and pick their way through ice and snow to open a hole to the Arctic Ocean. WHOI engineers tested new underwater…
Read MoreCell-sized Thermometers
Some benthic foraminifera, such as the one shown in this scanning electron micrograph, are single-celled organisms whose calcium carbonate shells contain information about the temperature of the water they grew…
Read MoreWing Man
Co-pilot Travis Goetzinger sweeps frost off of the wings of a Twin Otter airplane in preparation for takeoff in April 2007. “Frosted wings can decrease lift by 30 percent and…
Read MoreBreaking Out of Davey Jones’ Locker
A lot of ocean science equipment goes into the water and never comes back. Some of it was intended to stay; other times, the sea claims it by force. Recently…
Read MoreFully Loaded
The fantail of the research vessel Oceanus is crowded with gear as scientists and technicians prepare to cruise from Woods Hole to the Gulf Stream and back in November 2005.…
Read MoreSteady Hands
Ken Houtler, captain of coastal research vessel Tioga, handles the wheel while first mate Ian Hanley joins him on watch. In March 2007, Houtler and Hanley cruised the 60-foot boat…
Read MoreLining Up for Takeoff
Airport crews and research technicians lined up their science gear on the tarmac of the Resolute Bay (Canada) airport for shipment to the Canadian Forces Station Alert and, ultimately, the…
Read MorePink Cucumber
This unusual sea cucumber, Enypniastes eximia, is a graceful, if slow, swimmer. While most sea cucumbers live almost exclusively on the ocean bottom, Enypniastes is one of a small group…
Read MoreVisit Us
The Ocean Science Discovery Center welcomes students of all ages who wish to learn more about the sea and how we study it. The center hosts weekly lectures in the…
Read MoreCircle Vision
Machinist Dave Hamblin inspects the polypropylene racks he is making for the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus, which is being designed and constructed at WHOI. The racks will hold ceramic…
Read MoreYou’ve Never Had a Math Class Like This
On a typical summer morning in the village of Woods Hole, participants in the annual Geophysical Fluid Dynamics summer program gather on the porch of Walsh Cottage to discuss complex…
Read MoreHoles
A hawsehole in the bow of the icebreaker Oden frames the work of researchers and ship’s crew as they make a hole in the ice for launching underwater vehicles. An…
Read MoreThe Core of Woods Hole
Researchers Dick Edwards and Dick Leahy examine a sediment core aboard the original research vessel Atlantis in 1959. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been taking scientists to sea and bringing…
Read MoreBorn Under a Good Sign
Nature greets the newly deployed WHOI Hawaii Ocean Time Series (WHOTS) IV buoy during deployment off Hawaii with a sign of good fortune on June 25, 2007. The long-term ocean…
Read MoreBare Bones
The skeletal hind flipper of a harbor seal includes finger-like bones, as shown in this articulated display specimen plucked from a Woods Hole warehouse. WHOI biologists work with marine mammal…
Read MoreA for Effort
The crew of the research vessel Knorr uses some port time to work on the A-frame on the stern, which is used for balancing lines and supporting weight as crews…
Read MoreNoise Maker
Boatswain Jim McGill (left) of the WHOI-operated research vessel Oceanus assists scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Penn State University as they deploy a towed, mid-range sound source…
Read MoreNeed a Release
WHOI research specialist Rick Krishfield (left, with clipboard) and ship’s boatswain Bob Taylor (foreground) observe as WHOI engineering assistants John Kemp and Kris Newhall assemble a mooring on the deck…
Read MoreBearing North
The Swedish icebreaker Oden and a science party from WHOI departs Tromso, Norway, for a week of vehicle engineering trials in the Arctic Ocean. In late May and early June, WHOI…
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