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Seafloor Sentinel
In 1998, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason installed the Hawaii-2 Observatory, or H2O, in 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet) of water using an abandoned submarine telephone cable. […]
Read MoreSky High
A view of Pangong Lake in the Ladakh region of northern India, taken at an altitude of 18,000 feet, shows the great expanse of the Tibetan Plateau as far […]
Read MoreIn Full Swing
Participating in the summer WHOI softball league, Rob Reves-Sohn prepares to swing the bat for the Geology and Geophysics Department team. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreSeismic Sensors
New WHOI “D2” ocean-bottom seismometers are readied for field testing. Small and light for easy deployment and recovery, the D2 has a six-month battery capacity. The devices are […]
Read MoreHoly Jellyfish!
Night Shift
Night time deployment of a video plankton recorder (VPR) from the USCGC Healy. The underwater video microscope system helps scientists quickly measure the distributional patterns of plankton without destroying […]
Read MoreSand Sculpture
Waves, currents, sand grain sizes, sandbar configurations, water tablelevels beneath the beach, and other phenomena combine in complex ways to cause very different patterns along the same beach. (Photo […]
Read MoreArctic Explorers
Puma and Jaguar are autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to overcome the technical challenges that preclude under-ice operations in the Arctic Ocean. Puma will detect and […]
Read MoreA Whale’s Tail
A North Atlantic right whale dives in search of food near Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.(Photo by Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreAll Hands on Deck
The foredeck of the Canadian icebreaker Louis St. Laurent during a mooring deployment in the Arctic Ocean during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment. (Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods […]
Read MoreStanding Tall
The Air-Sea Interaction Tower, part of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, allows scientists to deploy instruments that monitor the relationship between winds and waves in all weather conditions. […]
Read MoreBarnacle Beauties
Underwater Reconnaisance
Digging for Data
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sheri Simmons collects samples in Salt Pond in Falmouth, Mass., for studies of a previously unknown bacterium that incorporates magnetic minerals to make […]
Read MoreColorful Crystals
What’s in a Whale?
WHOI chemist Emma Teuten applied classical chemistry techniques, some kitchen skills and high-tech equipment to analyze the specific compounds found in the blubber of a True’s beaked whale found […]
Read MoreMasaya Volcano
Scientific Sleuths
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Rhian Waller (left), University of Washington graduate student Deb Glickson, and colleagues tried to witness an undersea volcanic eruption in action on the Juan de Fuca […]
Read MoreCurve Appeal
The 35,570-square-foot biogeochemistry building, now called the Stanley W. Watson Laboratory, under construction in 2005. The Watson Lab is one of two new laboratories on the Institution’s Quissett Campus, […]
Read MoreRose Bowl
Crabs thrive in a new vent site on the Galapagos Rift found in 2005. Its concave shape and lineage to previously found sites called Rose Garden and Rosebud–suggested the name […]
Read MoreSeafloor Settlers
Coring for Clues
WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan and colleagues cruise through a man-made canal in the Danube Delta in search of sites to take sediment cores. The history of the 6,000-year-old river […]
Read MoreUp, Up and Away
Muddy Waters
Alexis Jackson (in blue) and Carly Strasser, WHOI Summer Student Fellows, sieve mud in Barnstable Harbor (MA) to collect juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) for population studies.(Photo by Tom […]
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