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A Visit to Crab Spa

A Visit to Crab Spa

The manipulator arm of the human-occupied submersible Alvin holds an isobaric gas-tight (IGT) sampler to collect vent fluids flowing from a seafloor hydrothermal vent site in the Pacfic Ocean called…

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Oceanography at Their Fingertips

Oceanography at Their Fingertips

Students from the Perkins School for the Blind work with WHOI Ocean Science Discovery Center staff person Megan Harrigan this past spring. WHOI physical oceanographer Amy Bower was on a research cruise…

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Sniffing Out Oil Spills

Sniffing Out Oil Spills

An autonomous underwater vehicle tracks a harmless, bright-green fluorescent dye during a demonstration to simulate a rapid response to a maritime oil spill. Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, the…

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A Ship Fit for a Prince

A Ship Fit for a Prince

WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and Prince Albert II of Monaco hold a 3D-printed replica of a wooden model of the hull of WHOI’s former research vessel Chain.…

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A Regatta of Unboats

A Regatta of Unboats

This year’s Anything-But-A-Boat Race brought out a crowd of spectators in Woods Hole, Mass. on Sept. 16, 2018. Rules for the periodic WHOI community event stipulate that “unboats” must not include…

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Gotcha!

Gotcha!

Sam Levang, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, appears to snatch a flying fish from the air, but no, this photo was staged. “Flying fish land on deck…

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Lobster Trap for Microbes

Lobster Trap for Microbes

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ben Lambert field tests a new type of 3-D printed instrument known as an In Situ Chemotaxis Assay (ISCA), which he developed with other researchers focused…

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Advancing the Search for Life

Advancing the Search for Life

WHOI Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert was chosen by L’Oréal USA to receive one of five 2018 For Women in Science Fellowships, each of which provides $60,000 to a female postdoctoral…

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Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

The Galápagos Islands are known for giant tortoises, Darwin’s finches, and marine iguanas—but land iguanas (pictured) are also among the numerous species endemic to these volcanic islands. This part of…

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The Once and Future Marsh

The Once and Future Marsh

WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak (center) collects plant and sediment samples in Barstable Great Marsh with the help of research assistant Kelsey Gosselin (left) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sheron Luk…

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Swimming in Diversity

Swimming in Diversity

The Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) brings together scientists, engineers, advocates, and educators to promote the visibility of women in the marine science community and to work to…

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Our Most Recent Grads

Our Most Recent Grads

Fifty years after the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography was established, the four most recent graduates of the program were awarded degrees in 2018: (from left) Lt. Ryan Conway (Applied…

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All Suited Up

All Suited Up

Incoming MIT-WHOI Joint Program students take part in a cruise orientation aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer in Woods Hole. The students are wearing immersion or survival suits—thick, neoprene, pull-on wetsuits that provide…

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Forecasting Monsoons

Forecasting Monsoons

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger snapped this photo from the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson in the Bay of Bengal as a wall of storm clouds swept overhead.…

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The Art of Collecting

The Art of Collecting

Instructor Phil Alatalo teaches 2018 Summer Student Fellows (SSF) Brooke Torjman (Muhlenberg College ’19) and Samantha Kenah (Skidmore College ’19) how to deploy a plankton net to collect the tiny…

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Braving Icy Waters

Braving Icy Waters

Someone looking out from the shore of Nanavut, Canada, this summer would have seen this unusual craft making its way through the waters of Cambridge Bay. As its name suggests,…

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Glacial Secrets

Glacial Secrets

MIT-WHOI Joint program student Matt Osman holds a 2,000-year-old ice core sample that he, scientist Sarah Das, and colleagues drilled from an ice cap in Greenland during a research expedition…

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Dead or Alive?

Dead or Alive?

Horseshoe crabs must shed their hard outer shell, or exoskeleton, to grow, typically molting more than 15 times over the course of a decade before they are fully grown and able…

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Disappearing Ponds

Disappearing Ponds

WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak samples plant matter in the remnants of a small pond in Great Marsh in Barnstable, Mass. In the 1930s, the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project dug…

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Getting a Good Grip

Getting a Good Grip

WHOI Mooring Operations & Engineering lead John Kemp (center) and Senior Engineering Assistants Jim Dunn and Meghan Donohue work to add a YaleGrip to an electro-magnetic (EM) cable during a…

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Gulf Stream Waters

Gulf Stream Waters

Sam Levang, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has been studying the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a critical component of Earth’s climate system. It transports warm and salty…

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Fresh Water in the Arctic

Fresh Water in the Arctic

The Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent negotiates thick ice floes near Beaufort Gyre, a major Artic Ocean circulation system north of Alaska. Global warming may be disrupting the natural rhythms…

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View from Above

View from Above

The research vessel Neil Armstrong paused at the mouth of Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland recently so its crew could carry out deck work in sheltered waters. The team…

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