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Standing under a mineral waterfall
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, […]
Read MoreLayers of change
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 […]
Read MoreFilter Feeding
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 […]
Read MoreCelebrating the Little Ones
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 […]
Read MoreSoaking Up the Moment
Oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy soaks up the sun after a successful expedition in the North Atlantic in 2005. McGillicuddy was recently selected by his peers to be the 2008 recipient […]
Read MoreSetting a Trap
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 […]
Read MoreColorful Collectors
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 […]
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