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Sunlight Affects Oil Spills

Sunlight Affects Oil Spills

A recent study by WHOI scientists Collin Ward and Chris Reddy showed that sunlight plays a critical and previously overlooked role in oil spills. Light energy rapidly alters the chemistry…

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KelpBot

KelpBot

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya (left) and scientists Andone Lavery and Tim Stanton recovered a REMUS 100 “KelpBot” autonomous underwater vehicle they deployed with colleagues from the University of New England recently…

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Carbon Pump

Carbon Pump

This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps (genus Cyclosalpa). This kind of salp lives in sunlit surface waters, but other species migrate to and from the…

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School’s Out

School's Out

Thriving schools of white grunts and schoolmaster snapper swim amid the lush corals of the Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) off Cuba. Because the reefs are somewhat…

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Deep Resident

Deep Resident

There are an untold number of species like this jelly that are residents of the ocean’s twilight zone. The region of the ocean between 200 and 1,000 meters (660 and…

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Future Explorer

Future Explorer

Kayden Graham takes a “dive” in the Alvin personnel sphere on display at WHOI’s Ocean Science Discovery Center in Woods Hole, Mass. The exhibit includes panels saved from previous Alvin…

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Tech Tranfser

Tech Tranfser

Chris Land, WHOI Vice President for Legal Affairs (red tie) looks on as David Aubrey, CEO of EOM Offshore, LCC, signs an agreement in February 2018 that transfers controlling interest…

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Alvin’s Forebear

Alvin’s Forebear

On January 20, 1961, in the midst of the Cold War, the bathyscaphe Trieste rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., during the Inauguration Day parade of President John F.…

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Happy World Oceans Day

Happy World Oceans Day

Today is World Oceans Day, a worldwide celebration of the ocean and the benefits it provides to everyone on our blue planet. It helps regulate our climate and our water cycle, supplies…

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REMUS 6000 Test

REMUS 6000 Test

WHOI engineers Amy Kukulya and Mark Dennett tested a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from the WHOI dock in 2014. Researchers have used the vehicle to locate Air France…

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Fish Chatter

Fish Chatter

To our ears coral reefs may seem relatively quiet, but fish there make a variety of sounds that are often described by scientists as grunts, pops, chirps, hoots and more.…

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Underwater Wonders

Underwater Wonders

Researchers at WHOI spend their time trying to understand the ocean—the physics of its currents, the chemistry of its water and sediments, the geology of its seafloor, and the biology…

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Shipping News

Shipping News

Ordinary seaman Derek Briggs (right) stands next to a surface buoy on the stern of the research vessel Neil Armstrong in April 2018. The ship had just docked in Woods…

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Vehicle of Discovery

Vehicle of Discovery

WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and Vice President for Marine Facilities & Operations Rob Munier (right) show the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Geosciences…

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Chomp!

Chomp!

Engineers in the WHOI Ocean Systems Laboratory developed REMUS SharkCam, an autonomous underwater vehicle that can locate, track, and film sharks in the wild. The vehicle is pre-programmed to home…

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To Sea

To Sea

The research vessel Atlantis sailed from Bermuda recently with the human-occupied submersible Alvin, the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry, and a science crew of geologists and geochemists. The team is searching…

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Multi-Pronged Coral Reef Research

Multi-Pronged Coral Reef Research

WHOI scientist Amy Apprill led an first-of-its kind joint expedition with Cuban and American scientists in November 2017 to study the Gardens of the Queens in Cuba, one of the most untouched and unknown coral…

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A Field Trip for the Alvin Sphere

A Field Trip for the Alvin Sphere

National Geographic is hosting a Titanic exhibit from May 30, 2018, to Jan. 6, 2019, at the Society’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The exhibit will include the old personnel sphere from the…

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Testing New Technology

Testing New Technology

Scientists and engineers are building a new vehicle that will be towed from research ships and able to transmit data in real time. The Deep-See will be equipped with instruments…

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An Unexpected Collaborator

An Unexpected Collaborator

American and Cuban scientists teamed up for an unprecedented joint expedition in November 2017 to explore one of the Caribbean’s most pristine coral reefs. WHOI microbial ecologist Amy Apprill led the…

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Building on Past Experience

Building on Past Experience

Before Henry Bryant Bigelow became WHOI’s founding director in 1930, the pioneering oceanographer and marine biologist conducted research aboard the U.S. Fish Commission vessel Grampus. Named for a large dolphin,…

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Taking a Global Approach

Taking a Global Approach

A school of blue-green chromis swim in colony of coral in the Farasan Banks off Saudi Arabia. An international team of scientists, including WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold, conducted a rapid…

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Golden Anniversary

Golden Anniversary

Fifty years ago this month, WHOI Director Paul Fye (seated, right) and Howard Johnson (seated, center), president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), signed a memorandum aboard the research…

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