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A Different Era
Fishy Patient
Andone Lavery (left) of WHOI and Mike Jech from the National Marine Fisheries Service lab in Woods Hole prepare to conduct a CT scan on an alewife […]
Read MoreSouthern Science
The icebreaker Laurence M. Gould at Palmer Station, one of three U.S. research stations on Antarctica operated by the National Science Foundation. Palmer is home to about 45 […]
Read MoreThe Importance of Deep-Sea Corals
Many people think corals thrive only in tropical waters, such as the Great Barrier Reef or the Florida Keys. Biologist Rhian Waller of WHOI talks about deep-sea corals, found in […]
Read MoreGolden Spiral
A colony of gold-colored Pegea Socia, a gelatinous creature common off the central and northern California coast. Aggregates form chains in a tight spiral coil. (Photo by Laurence Madin, […]
Read MoreMellow Yellow
Steady as She Goes
Senior machinist Rene Kokmeyer has worked on a variety of WHOI projects. “Scientists come up with the ideas, engineers help with the designs, then we build the instruments. […]
Read MoreDo We Have Everything?
A Simpler Time
Reading a current meter onboard R/V Atlantis, circa 1931. The Institution’s first research vessel had room for six scientists. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
Read MoreView from Below
The autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS is released in Belize during a pilot study of the effect of ocean currents on fish larvae spawned on coral reefs. Similar […]
Read MoreA Tight Fit
A spar buoy built in nearby shops is loaded onto R/V Atlantis for a recent climate cruise in the Northwest Atlantic. It was the largest piece of equipment other than […]
Read MoreAlmost There
High Tech
Dave Schneider works on maintaining the Element2 high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer in the WHOI Plasma MassSpectrometer Facility. (Photo by Lary Ball, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreColossal Coral
A large deep sea coral sample, used in climate change studies, is cut at Fletcher Granite’s Chelmsford Quarry in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. (Photo by Dave Gray, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreRound and Round
Dolioletta gegenbauri, a planktonic colonial tunicate that filters phytoplankton to eat, is about two inches (5 centimeters) long. This species was one of many collected in deep water during a recent Read More
Easy Does It
Dave Fratantoni (right), Christina Courcier, and John Lund launch a glider from a coastal vessel during tests in Great Harbor, Woods Hole.The autonomous underwater vehicles can remain at […]
Read MoreRiding High
Kristy Aller and Jenny White use a personnel carrier to collect samples of newly formed pancakeice in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, for primary production analysis aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer […]
Read MorePicture Perfect
Marine Forensics
Michael Moore prepares a 12-foot Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) for a necrospy at the new necropsy/CT scanning facility at WHOI for forensic studies to try to determine what may […]
Read MoreGulf Stream Glider
Senior Scientist Breck Owens, aboard the R/V Henry Stommel from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, downloads data from the Spray glider after its first successful crossing […]
Read MoreView from the Top
WHOI geochemist Ken Sims and climber Dennis Jackson overlooking Masayavolcano in Nicaragua. By gathering gas samples from volcanoes worldwide, Sims is exploring how Earth is evolving and how volcanic […]
Read MoreA Celebration to Remember
Marine Biologist Rudy Scheltema pauses during a climb of a volcanic crater on Deception Island two years ago. Rudy recently celebrated his 80th birthday during a research expedition to […]
Read MoreSkilled Hands
Carl Johnson runs a sample in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, part of the WHOI Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry Facility. The facility provides specialized, state-of-the-art analytical services […]
Read MoreOn Top of the World
Rick Krishfield prepares a mooring for deployment in the Arctic Ocean, part of circulation and climate studies for the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project. The field program began in […]
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