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Culturing Coral

Culturing Coral

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Michael Holcomb checks on corals he is growing in the lab to test the low temperature limit of coral growth. Low temperature corals are likely to…

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Free Ride

Free Ride

A large starfish hitches a ride on a ship’s anchor. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Getting Organized

Getting Organized

John Kemp organizes lines on the fantail of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker (USCG) Healy during an Arctic Ocean cruise. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Trains, Boats and Planes

Trains, Boats and Planes

The village of Woods Hole, one of eight villages in the Town ofFalmouth, Massachusetts, is shown here circa 1948. Trains, visible atbottom where the Steamship Authority terminal now stands, brought many visitors…

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Arctic Explorer

Arctic Explorer

Hanu Singh prepares Jaguar, a new autonomous underwater vehicle being built for use under the Arctic ice, for a dock test in Woods Hole.  A preliminary cruise is planned next…

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Up in Smoke

Up in Smoke

A chimney-like structure called a black smoker on the East Pacific Rise at 9°N spews water superheated to more than 600°F. The sample basket and a manipulator arm on the…

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Birds Beware

Birds Beware

Will Ostrom prepares to install the bird deflectors onto the Gumbymoor buoy. Meteorological and other instruments atop the moorning, anchored to the seafloor, can be damaged by birds landing on…

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The Beat Goes On

The Beat Goes On

Bill Jenkins (left) is the third director of the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator MassSpectrometer (NOSAMS) facility, established in 1989 at WHOI to provide radiocarbon analysis (principally carbon-14 dating) of marine sediments…

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Close Encounter

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 tube, about…

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Without a Scratch

Without 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 presence…

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A World Apart

A 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)

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Close Watch

Close 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 the ocean iscritical because…

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Solitary Salp

Solitary 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, or live…

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Clues in a Crater

Clues 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 square…

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Smaller than a Breadbox

Smaller 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 10.  Shown…

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Bath Time

Bath 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. (Photo by…

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Testing the Waters

Testing 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 better understand…

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Hurricane Historian

Hurricane 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 major hurricanes…

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Natural Neon

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 movement, it is…

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Cookie Cutters

Cookie 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.  More…

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Flying High

Flying High

R/V Atlantis Steward Carl Wood leaps from DSV Alvin during a recent launch of the sub. Swimmers help secure the vehicle for each launch and recovery. (Photo by Amy Nevala,…

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High Technology

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 be a…

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Where is Everyone?

Where is Everyone?

Pure penguin coolness on Deception Island, 2005. (Photo by Regina Campbell-Malone, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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