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Digging Into Pollution Problems
Plaster of Paris casts of the burrows of salt marsh fiddler crabs show how crabs from a healthy marsh (left side) dig straighter and deeper holes than those burrowing into…
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R/V Atlantis
Rocket’s Red Glare
Fireworks light up the sky above the Pacific Ocean on New Year’s Eve 2006. Actually, the red streak was a flare fired during a safety drill. Crew members on the…
Read MoreCoping Pods
The four major species of copepods in the Beaufort Sea all have different sizes, different life cycles, and different prey. L to R: Metridia longa (~2.5 millimeters), Calanus glacialis (~4mm),…
Read MoreInside Edition
Alvin pilot Mark Spear conducts show-and-tell for new crew members as they sit inside the Alvin submersible, which was housed in its hangar on the research vessel Atlantis for an…
Read MoreAlgae Thermometer
One species of marine alga, Emiliania huxleyi, almost exclusively produces lipids called alkenones, which have proven quite useful for scientists tracking the movement of carbon through the oceans. Alkenones preserved…
Read MoreMission Accomplished
WHOI scientists Christopher German (left), Jian Lin (center), and Dana Yoerger stand in front of the ABE autonomous underwater vehicle on the deck of the Chinese research vessel Dayang 1…
Read MoreBay Watch
The village of Kangiqsujuaq in northern Quebec (population roughly 500) is nestled on a deep bay at the tip of Peninsule D’Ungava off Hudson Strait. The town was a staging…
Read MoreLong Jump
Senior Engineering Assistant John Kemp leaps across a melt pond in the Arctic ice while carrying drill bits for use in deploying an ice-tethered profiler in the Beaufort Sea. This…
Read MoreSome Assembly Required
Engineer Nicole Nichols and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Chris Murphy take a pause from their work in Hanumant Singh‘s laboratory to pose with two of the group’s projects. Murphy and…
Read MoreA Day to Remember
Ninety-five years ago today, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an icebergand sank into 12,500 feet (3800 meters) of water in the North Atlantic southeast of Newfoundland. In July 1986, nine months…
Read MoreRising Above It All
WHOI researchers were treated to a spectacular view of 2000 meters of mountain meeting 500 m of sea water in the Comau Fjord of Northern Patagonia (Chile). Marine chemist Laura…
Read MoreBatter Up
WHOI engineering assistants John Kemp (swinging the pickaxe) and Kris Newhall (holding the chain) work to remove a large chunk of ice after it has been pulled out of an…
Read MoreSeafloor to Space Station
He is two miles under water; she is 200 miles up in the atmosphere. Watch and listen to a phone call recorded on January 26, 2007 between biologist Tim Shank…
Read MoreWorking in the Twilight Zone
Particles sinking from sunlit surface waters through the ocean’s dimly lit twilight zone are often swept sideways by currents. Conventional moored or tethered traps designed to catch the particles for…
Read MoreTastes Great, Less Filling
One copepod Euchaeta norvegica gobbles up another Calanus finmarchicus (clear and sticking out of the top of Euchaeta) after being scooped out of New England waters. Both zooplankton were captured…
Read MoreHigh and Dry
On September 14, 1944, WHOI’s original research vessel Atlantis was moved to the dock of the National Marine Fisheries Service because of an impending hurricane; Captain Lambert Knight and four…
Read MorePeaks of Interest
MIT/WHOI graduate student Kristin Smith and marine chemist Chris Reddy examine data from a sample of oil that naturally seeped from the seafloor off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.…
Read MoreStaying on Track
The deep submergence vehicle Alvin slowly moves back into its hangar under the watchful eye of Expedition Leader and Alvin pilot Patrick Hickey. When not being raised or lowered into…
Read MoreNight Watch
Bigelow Laboratory stands as sentry over the WHOI dock as evening settles in. The building is named for oceanographer Henry Bryant Bigelow, first director of WHOI. It was the Institution’s…
Read MoreRace to the Pole – Below Ice
On this day in 1909, explorers Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and their Inuit guides Ootah, Egigingwah, Seegloo and Ooqueah claimed to be the first humans to reach the North Pole.…
Read MoreWeighing In
Research Associate John Lund of the WHOI Autonomous Systems Lab lowers a glider into a test tank to weigh it in water, part of the process of adjusting the ballast.…
Read MoreHomeward Bound
The WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr returns to its home port in Woods Hole on March 22, 2007 after six weeks at sea for the CLIMODE project. Launched in 1968 and…
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