Multimedia Items
Pieces of History
Dan Chamberlain and Margaret DiGiorno, visiting students from Northeastern University working in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly, split a sediment core from Blackmore Pond, a coastal pond in…
Read MoreStorms in Mud
Dan Chamberlain, a visiting student from Northeastern University working in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, examines a coastal pond sediment core that he split in half to expose layers of mud and…
Read MoreField Lesson
WHOI Engineering Assistant Sean Whelan (second from the right), shows scientists from India and Sri Lanka how to deploy a Slocum Glider while on a cruise in the Bay of Bengal…
Read MoreCore Knowledge
During a recent trip to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, WHOI guest student Chris Maio assisted in the collection of sediment cores from the Beluga Slough salt marsh. The trip was funded…
Read MoreCore Knowledge
Interns Chris Eustis and Brecia Douglas from Northeastern University help organize sediment core samples collected from all over the world. WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group collects and analyzes these cores in…
Read MoreGetting to the Bottom of Things
WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly analyzes hurricane activity through the traces they leave behind. In summer 2013 Donnelly and his lab members returned to a Cape Cod coastal pond that…
Read MoreNew Found Cores
WHOI’s Jeff Donnelly, Michael Toomey, Andrea Hawkes, and Richard Sullivan (left to right) gathered data from the R/V Arenaria in July in the waters of Newfoundland, Canada, to reconstruct a…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month at WHOI
TrailblazersJoanne Malkus was the first female meteorologist to earn a doctorate, discovered what keeps hurricanes moving forward, and revealed what drives the atmospheric currents in the tropics. As a research…
Read MoreReady for Sandy
When one of the big ships is in port during heavy weather, they get all the best points on the dock to tie off. Standard practice calls for two bow…
Read MoreBlowing in the Wind
Brown University graduate student Jess Rodysill, guest student Lance Croft, and WHOI researcher Richard Sullivan (left to right) set up an aeolian (wind-blown) sediment trap this summer on Florida’s Santa…
Read MoreCrawford
Crawford, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter, came to WHOI in 1956. Crawford made 175 cruises, worked in the North and South Atlantic, and carried specialized gear for studying hurricanes.…
Read MoreTaking the Measure of Irene
Post-doctoral scholar Andrea Hawkes (foreground) and Summer Student Fellow Leah Fine prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in August by surveying a section of beach along Surf Drive in…
Read MoreHurricane Hunter
Former MIT/WHOI Joint Program student (and current assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst) Jonathan Woodruff sinks a core sampler into the ground at Sippewissett Marsh in 2009. Woodruff…
Read MoreHurricane season
A look at Silver Beach in North Falmouth, Ma., after the hurricane of 1938 shows the extensive damage a hurricane can do to the coast. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Read MoreHurricane hunter
Jon Woodruff, a graduate of the WHOI/MIT Joint Program, looks for bits of grit and shell in sediment samples that he cores from lagoons and marshes (including this marsh, on…
Read MoreFamily digs deep in Japan
Jon Woodruff, a recent graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, is interested in ancient bits of grit and shell that he pulls from lagoons and marshes using hollow metal tubes,…
Read MoreHurricane Watch
A cross-section of a marsh at Barn Island, Conn., shows light-colored layers of sand laid down by Hurricane Carol in 1954 (at 10 centimeters) and the 1938 Hurricane (at 14…
Read MoreOne Good Turn
MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jonathan Woodruff works to extract a sediment core from Sippewissett Marsh in Massachusetts. Along with advisor Jeff Donnelly, Woodruff is trying to piece together the…
Read More