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This intriguing trail sign greeted the Fraser River Expedition led by WHOI’s Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink in May in the woods of western Canada. The expedition was part of the Global Rivers…

Andrew McDonnell, a joint program student in marine chemistry and geochemistry, holds a jar full of sinking particles collected at 150 meters depth during a cruise along the West Antarctic…

Sunset on the RV Atlantic Explorer during a research cruise in September 2009 in the Sargasso Sea as part of the Twilight Zone Explorer research project led by Ken Buesseler. …

A trip to the snow? Actually, it’s mineral, not ice, as WHOI graduate program student Evelyn Mervine collects recently-deposited carbonate from a highly alkaline spring in the Samail Ophiolite—an area…

Jill Van Tongeren (a graduate student at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory) stands, for scale, underneath stalactites and stalagmites of the mineral travertine, in Oman. Evelyn Mervine, WHOI Joint…

Graduate student Evelyn Mervine traveled to Oman recently to study an area of uplifted ocean crust exposed to the atmosphere, the Samail Ophiolite. The photo shows accumulated layers of travertine,…

WHOI postdoctoral fellow Mar Nieto-Cid adds seawater to a filtration system in the main laboratory of the research vessel Oceanus during a cruise in the North Atlantic in April 2008. …

WHOI microbiologist John Waterbury examines phytoplankton samples in his lab in the Stanley W. Watson Biogeochemistry Building. Today Waterbury is joining MIT biologist Penny Chisholm and WHOI biologist Robert Olson…

Scientific and ship crew members on the research vessel Oceanus work to deploy a sediment trap off the New England coast. Marine chemist Tim Eglinton and colleagues are investigating how…

Researchers retrieve a “holey sock” drogue (blue cyclinder) and an antenna unit from a second trap (orange/yellow device) near Hawaii during the VERTIGO experiment. The results will help improve computer…