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Getting Ahold of Marine Science

Getting Ahold of Marine Science

2018 Summer Student Fellows Devon Gaynes (left) and David Davis prepare to deploy a Shipek spring-loaded sediment grab sampler from the research vessel Gulf Challenger. Gaynes, a student at SUNY…

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Diving Deep for Dinner

Diving Deep for Dinner

Sharks and other large predators may be using swirling pockets of unusually warm water to access food in the ocean twilight zone. In a recent study, researchers from WHOI and…

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Embarking on Cruise and Career

Embarking on Cruise and Career

More than 400 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students just beginning their oceanographic careers have found their bearings aboard the Jake Peirson Summer Cruise, which began in 1990 as a rich introduction…

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Larger Than Life

Larger Than Life

The copepod pictured on this laptop screen is only a few millimeters long, but it appears much larger through the “eyes” of a new holographic camera system. WHOI biologist Peter…

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Not Quiet on the Ocean Front

Not Quiet on the Ocean Front

Mara Freilich, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, is exploring where plankton thrives in the ocean. Her research area is the Mediterranean Sea, where less-salty, less-dense water from…

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After the Thaw

After the Thaw

WHOI research engineer Kevin Manganini launches “ChemYak,” a variation of the remote-controlled surface vehicle known as JetYak developed by WHOI to collect data in shallow water or difficult conditions. ChemYak…

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Oh, Brothers!

Oh, Brothers!

Inside a control van aboard tthe University of Washington research vessel Thompson G. Thompson, Expedition Leader Tito Collasius pilots the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason as engineer Korey Verhein (center)…

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Surge Levels in a Can

Surge Levels in a Can

In the late 1940s, WHOI scientists helped document the impacts of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 during Operation Crossroads. To measure surge…

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Prepping for Deployment

Prepping for Deployment

Emerson Hasbrouck, an engineering assistant with WHOI’s Upper-Ocean Processes Group, prepares a Stratus buoy for deployment in Valparaíso, Chile. The buoy holds instruments that measure air and sea surface temperatures,…

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A Turn With the Net

A Turn With the Net

WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe (standing, far left) guides guest student Will Scott in casting a net into the test well on the WHOI pier, as physicist Andone Lavery (seated, left),…

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Arctic Coastal Changes

Arctic Coastal Changes

Climate change is leading to diminishing sea ice near the Arctic coast, leaving more open water for winds to create more waves, which reach down and stir up sediments on…

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Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

Mechanical engineer Kaitlyn Tradd attaches a multibeam sonar to the Deep-See, a new sensor platform that she helped design and build. The platform will weigh almost 1.5 tons once fully…

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A Different Kind of NASCar

A Different Kind of NASCar

A spray glider launched in March 2017 from a patrol ship off the Seychelles Islands in the western Indian Ocean spent four months zig-zagging through the upper 1,000 meters (3,300 feet)…

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Tiny Stingers

Tiny Stingers

These delicate creatures are no bigger than a quarter, but their tentacles can sometimes deliver painful stings. Clinging jellyfish are found along the northeastern U.S. coast. Beachgoers need not be…

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Upgraded Performance

Upgraded Performance

In 1983, WHOI engineers spent long summer weeks in East Boston working to upgrade and convert the research vessel Atlantis II into the support ship for the human-occupied submersible Alvin.…

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Docs on the Dock

Docs on the Dock

Jerome Wiesner, then-president of MIT, presided at the 1980 commencement ceremony, held near the WHOI pier in Woods Hole, for graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean…

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First of Many

First of Many

MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Cory Berger (left) and Logan Tegler (right) prepare water samples in the lab aboard the Sea Education Association‘s Corwith Cramer during this year’s Jake Peirson Summer…

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DISCO in the Garden

DISCO in the Garden

During a joint U.S.-Cuban expedition to Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) in November 2017, WHOI biogeochemist Colleen Hansel tested DISCO, a newly built sensor to investigate coral…

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Shark Advocate

Shark Advocate

WHOI engineer and SharkCam co-developer Amy Kukulya (blue jacket) has not only helped bring sharks into living rooms since 2012 on The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, but she remains a…

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Morning on the Delta

Morning on the Delta

The Ayeyawady River delta in Myanmar is home to millions of people and is a hub of agricultural activity for the country. Unlike other large rivers across the world, it…

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Getting Their Sea Legs

Getting Their Sea Legs

The incoming class of MIT-WHOI Joint Program students joins the crew of the sailing school vessel Corwith Cramer in a cheerful collapse to celebrate their return to Woods Hole after…

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Cottage Industry

Cottage Industry

The quaint and venerable Walsh Cottage on the WHOI Village Campus is empty most of the year, but every summer since 1959, it is home to a select group of…

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Are Emperor Penguins Eating Enough?

Are Emperor Penguins Eating Enough?

Scientists are concerned that as climate change progresses, emperor penguins may not find enough food to build up body fat. This is especially important in the winter when they remain…

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Spiraling Senses

Spiraling Senses

Roughly the length of an olive, decapods are made up of 20 or more body segments. Among the most eye-catching of these segments is a coiled antenna stemming from its…

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