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Close Encounter
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students and staff hiked Mount Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii in June 2004 to study the island’s origin and active volcanism. A lava […]
Read MoreWithout a Scratch
In a few hours, the X-ray flourescence core scanner, the first of its kind in the United States, takes digital images and X-rays of sediment cores while detecting the […]
Read MoreA World Apart
The Sun casts a warm glow off an Antarctic peak into icy yet serene waters. (Photo by Laurence Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreClose Watch
Summer Student Fellow Ratsirin (Prae) Supcharoen checks on anexperiment in chemist Matt Charette’s laboratory. Charettestudies submarine groundwater discharge into the coastal environment. The flow of groundwater into […]
Read MoreSolitary Salp
Salps are transparent animals that eat phytoplankton by filtering it from the water with a mucus net inside their barrel-shaped bodies. They can be single animals, called solitaries, […]
Read MoreClues in a Crater
Princeton graduate student Nick Swanson-Hysell and colleagues visited the mile-wide, 790-foot-deep Lonar Crater created by a meteorite in the Deccan Traps, an ancient lava flow covering more than 200,000 […]
Read MoreSmaller than a Breadbox
A researcher holds three deep-sea crustaceans collected by MOCNESS, a net and environmental sensing system, from the waters west of the Antarctic Peninsula during Dive and Discover Expedition […]
Read MoreBath Time
John Kemp powerwashes mooring spheres after their recovery from the Arctic Ocean. The spheres were part of moorings deployed in the Beaufort Gyre for circulation studies in 2005. […]
Read MoreTesting the Waters
Tetjana Ross (in red) and Andone Lavery preparing to do a profile with a fast-response temperature-conductivity probe, which characterizes the double-diffusive interface. Lab experiments like this enable scientists to […]
Read MoreHurricane Historian
Jeff Donnelly and a colleague collect a sediment core from the bottom of Oyster Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Donnelly is studying climate change by looking for evidence of Read More
Natural Neon
A ctenophore (pronounced teen-o-fore), or comb jelly, is a transparent jelly-like animal often spherical or bell-shaped. When light strikes the eight rows of comb-like paddles used for […]
Read MoreCookie Cutters
Hoisting a piston tube off R/V Atlantis (circa 1949). Collection of sediment samples from the seafloor with various types of coring devices began in the 1930s and continues today. […]
Read MoreNew York, New York
Research Vessel Atlantis, May 1997. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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High Technology
Mark Roberts (foreground) and Brad Rosenheim work on the Continuous Flow Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (CFAMS), a new C-14 measurement system being built at WHOI. When complete, CFAMS will […]
Read MoreWhere is Everyone?
Pure penguin coolness on Deception Island, 2005. (Photo by Regina Campbell-Malone, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreBathed in Sulfur
Sulphur coated the frame on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason during a recent cruise to the western Pacific. Jason captured close-up images of volcanic eruptions and was […]
Read MoreHold Tight
Lunch Time
Crabs cover the sample basket on the front of DSV Alvin during 2002 dives near Patton Seamount in the Gulf of […]
Read MoreUnderwater Microscope
Dennis McGillicuddy (left) and Cabell Davis with a video plankton recorder (VPR) designed to work on the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. The VPR is an underwater […]
Read MoreEyes Under the Ice
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Searover is deployed off the starboard side of the polar research vessel Nathaniel Palmer near Alexander Island, Antarctica. Searover captured video […]
Read MoreSmile for the Camera
Deployment of an underwater camera off R/V Atlantis(circa 1948). Maurice Ewing and his student Allyn Vine produced the first photographs of the deep seafloor in 1940 during seismic experiments […]
Read MoreBack on Board
Carbon Kitchen
Panorama of the sample preparation lab for radiocarbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at WHOI. An addition completed in 2004 houses […]
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