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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…
Read MoreFree Ride
A large starfish hitches a ride on a ship’s anchor. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreGetting 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)
Read MoreTrains, 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…
Read MoreArctic 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…
Read MoreUp 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…
Read MoreBirds 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreClose 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…
Read MoreWithout 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…
Read MoreA 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)
Read MoreClose 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…
Read MoreSolitary 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…
Read MoreClues 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…
Read MoreSmaller 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…
Read MoreBath 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…
Read MoreTesting 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…
Read MoreHurricane 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…
Read MoreNatural 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…
Read MoreCookie 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…
Read MoreNew York, New York
Research Vessel Atlantis, May 1997. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreFlying 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,…
Read MoreHigh 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…
Read MoreWhere is Everyone?
Pure penguin coolness on Deception Island, 2005. (Photo by Regina Campbell-Malone, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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