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A Full Deck
The research vessel Neil Armstrong heads to the Ocean Observatories Initiative Coastal Pioneer Array about 90 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Every six months, WHOI engineers, scientists, and crew […]
Read MoreChemical Evidence
WHOI research assistant Paul Henderson watches over a water sampling station in the Northwest Territories, Canada. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Lauren Kipp led the 2016 expedition to study processes […]
Read MoreA Break in the Action
Bosun Pete Liarikos raises a fist to stop the action during the deployment of a multifunction node (MFN) from the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The gray metal […]
Read MoreTracking Toxic Invaders
Clinging jellyfish such as this from the coastal ocean near Vladivostok, Russia, are known for toxic stings that cause a wide range of symptoms—severe pain, difficulty breathing, and even hallucinations. […]
Read MoreHoming in on Reef Homes
Justin Suca holds a translucent young mantis shrimp off the Caribbean island of St. John where he does field work. Suca, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program […]
Read MoreCall of the Wild
An Atlantic white-sided dolphin jumps alongside the research vessel Neil Armstrong off the Massachusetts coast. These animals spend most of their lives in deep waters but are known to strand […]
Read More24/7 Science at Sea
This buoy is part of a Coastal Surface Mooring, one of the ten scientific moorings in the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Wind turbines and […]
Read MoreLunge Feeding
Tracking Fukushima Radioactivity
In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, WHOI geochemist Ken Buesseler organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes […]
Read More88 Years Young
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded on this date in 1930, following the recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. The chairman of the committee, […]
Read MoreDigging for Radioactivity
Former WHOI post-doctoral scientist Virginie Sanial sampled groundwater beneath beaches in Japan to look for radioactive cesium-137 from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant accident. To her surprise, she and […]
Read MoreBleached Coral
Long Haul
Crabs and shrimp investigate a cast-steel anchor for a mooring resting 125 meters below the surface at the Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory off the Massachusetts coast operated by […]
Read MoreSnap Chatter
Snapping shrimp usually look something like tiny lobsters, with one front claw much larger than the other. They use their supersized appendage to make a characteristic snapping sound, which […]
Read MoreWorth the Wade
Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma collects shellfish samples in Cape Cod’s Barnstable Harbor as part of a study to determine how much nitrogen they incorporate into their […]
Read MorePioneer Turnaround
Twice each year, scientists, engineers, and technicians make three short (7-10 day) trips on the research vessel Neil Armstrong to service and replace moorings that make up the Ocean Observatories […]
Read MoreHarvesting Fuels from the Sea
WHOI biologist Scott Lindell (left) stands within two large yellow trusses—key infrastructure for a commercial-scale seaweed farm in Nantucket Sound—with colleagues Cliff Goudey, Dom Manganelli, and Zack Moscicki from C.A. […]
Read MoreChile Waters
It takes a village of scientists, engineers, and ship’s crew to conduct a research expedition like this off the coast of Chile in February 2017. The expedition’s chief scientist, Read More
Clues to Past Climates
Scientists long use tubes to core sediments from the seafloor—like this one pulled from Indonesia’s Makassar Strait. The sediments contain chemical and other clues that provide a historical snapshot of […]
Read MoreGlider Entry
A Spray glider enters the water off the coast of Miami in September 2017, days before the arrival of Hurricane Irma. The glider flew back and forth across the current […]
Read MoreSetting Out
Fire on the Water
Natural gas piped up from a severed wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is flared off by a ship during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Responders had to […]
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
WHOI’s Mooring Operations and Engineering Group leader, John Kemp (second from right), and Senior Engineering Assistant Jim Ryder (left, red hardhat) recover a reel stand from off the starboard […]
Read MoreMerry Christmas 2017
Christmas tree worms, named for their resemblance to decorated holiday trees, are tiny, segmented worms that grow slowly and live up to four decades in a single location once they […]
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