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Digging Into Pollution Problems

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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Rocket’s Red Glare

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…

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Coping Pods

Coping 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),…

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Inside Edition

Inside 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…

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Algae Thermometer

Algae 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…

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Mission Accomplished

Mission 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…

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Bay Watch

Bay 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…

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Long Jump

Long 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…

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Some Assembly Required

Some 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…

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A Day to Remember

A 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…

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Rising Above It All

Rising 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…

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Batter Up

Batter 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…

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Seafloor 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…

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Working in the Twilight Zone

Working 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…

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Tastes Great, Less Filling

Tastes 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…

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High and Dry

High 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…

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Peaks of Interest

Peaks 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.…

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Staying on Track

Staying 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…

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Night Watch

Night 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…

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Race to the Pole – Below Ice

Race 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.…

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Weighing In

Weighing 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.…

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Homeward Bound

Homeward 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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